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At a White House meeting, Trump and AI executives signed a voluntary accord on controls, audits, board oversight and community support; it is nonbinding and has no penalties or government enforcement. Trump ordered agencies to use “Super Intelligence”; America.gov was unveiled.
AllegedMore than 300 hectares of forest were logged in a deforested area, according to the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation chair.
European governments and companies are expanding data-center capacity to support digital sovereignty, while communities raise concerns about electricity, water use and local decision-making. The European Commission announced a scheme to increase transparency on data centers’ energy and water use.
Water used to cool data centers per kilowatt-hour of electricity consumed has a reported minimum of 0.4 liters.
The FTC launched an investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms over potential consumer dangers and rogue AI agents after reported testing incidents. The probe is described as the first federal enforcement action examining rogue agents.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission fined Google €403m for unlawfully and unfairly processing users’ location data, finding that users could have been unaware of its use. Google was ordered to comply with GDPR within six months.
The Irish Data Protection Commission imposed a fine on Google for its processing of users’ location data.
Named plaintiffs in the lawsuit