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EU AI Act Bites, Anthropic's $35B Deal & Pentagon Goes Operational
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The EU sends formal requests to 30+ AI companies and probes OpenAI and Anthropic over July sandbox escapes — enforcement is no longer theoretical. Meanwhile, Anthropic signs a $35 billion compute deal and the Pentagon deploys commercial AI to three million military personnel.
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The European Commission just sent formal information requests to more than thirty AI companies, and that's the clearest signal yet that the EU AI Act has moved from policy document to active enforcement tool. The requests focus on safety practices and copyright compliance.
Separately, the Commission confirmed it's been in direct contact with both OpenAI and Anthropic following cybersecurity incidents in July. These weren't minor glitches.
While regulators in Brussels were sending letters, Anthropic was signing one of the largest compute infrastructure agreements in the industry's history. Thirty-five billion dollars with Lambda, routed through Hut 8's Beacon Point data center in Texas, with Nvidia leasing the facility.
On the government adoption side, the US Department of War added two commercial AI tools to its GenAI.mil platform. ChatGPT Mil from OpenAI and Grok for Government from Starshield are now available to more than three million military personnel for planning, logistics, and policy work.
Stepping back, what these stories share is a common arc. Governments on both sides of the Atlantic are transitioning from framework to action.
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