EU countries and lawmakers reach an impasse on a deal watering down the EU's AI Act due to some parties seeking exemptions for already regulated industries (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Q&A with labor researcher Molly Kinder on her recent, widely discussed "Messy Middle" essay on AI-driven disruption of knowledge jobs and how to address it (Casey Newton/Platformer)

How the AI boom is revolutionizing US stock markets, as hyperscalers cut buybacks and boost capex, including Alphabet's planned ~$85B in equity offerings for AI (Robert Armstrong/Financial Times)

Source: the White House imposed export controls on Mythos partly over suspicions a China-linked group had accessed it (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

US barring foreign nationals, including Anthropic staffers in the US, from using Fable 5 and Mythos 5 marks a new phase in the US trying to control Anthropic (New York Times)

Anthropic says it believes the US government's export control order for Mythos 5 and Fable 5 is a "misunderstanding" and that it is working to restore access (Ananya Palyekar/Reuters)

A Ukrainian extradited from Ireland to the US pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 and 2022 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)