On October 19, Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael told The Information he wants to use export controls against AI labs that do not cooperate with the government. ActuIA recalls that in June a Commerce directive led Anthropic to cut off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers from June 12 to 30, a precedent that worries European users of US models.
Speaking in Doha, Emmanuel Macron denounced foreign information manipulation after the October 17 protests. The French president singled out AI-generated images and directly criticized Donald Trump.
OpenAI faces legal action from several US states and from individuals. The complaints focus on the dangers of its product and on alleged illegal data collection.
China is sharply protesting the US ban on DeepSeek in government systems and demanding that it be lifted. Beijing itself blocks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini nationwide, which The Decoder says undermines its outrage, though the protest may signal possible retaliation.
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than $35 billion worth of Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 cards at list price. The three groups are trying to expand their computing power for AI in spite of US export restrictions.
As AI-generated texts multiply, publishers are trying several ways to protect authors and reassure readers. Contract clauses, detection tools and transparency labels are at the heart of a response that is still in its early days.