Justice Department Backs OpenAI Copyright Fair Use, Anthropic Overtakes ChatGPT Subscriptions, NYC Bans AI for K-8 Students + 7 More

The Justice Department filed in support of OpenAI's fair use argument in the New York Times copyright lawsuit, signaling that restricting AI training would hinder American interests. This legal move reduces vendor risk for companies building on top of licensed models. Nvidia invested $3.5 billion in a semiconductor company, tying custom AI silicon directly into Nvidia's interconnect technology as an infrastructure play. An open-source personal agent project shipped version 2.0 with 933 contributors and 16,000 merged pull requests, adding shared cloud sessions and multi-agent fleet modes as a free-to-build alternative to proprietary tooling. AI data center investment alone could reach $31 to $32 trillion by 2050, roughly the entire current US GDP, but local governments are pushing back hard over water usage and power grid strain. Beijing hosted the World Humanoid Robot Games where a robot called Tiangong Ultra ran the hundred meters in 8.64 seconds, beating Usain Bolt's record and demonstrating rapid progress in balance and real-time motion correction. Anthropic signed a $35 billion compute deal for a Texas data center and is tracking toward $47 billion in annual recurring revenue with profitability expected by 2029, overtaking OpenAI in business subscriptions. The European Commission designated ChatGPT as a very large online search engine under the Digital Services Act after crossing 45 million monthly users in Europe, triggering annual audits and compliance requirements. OpenAI's unreleased Astra model found zero-day vulnerabilities and built exploit chains, becoming the first model rated Critical for cyber-capability under OpenAI's own safety framework. New York City announced a one-year moratorium banning AI use for public school students from kindergarten through eighth grade, part of a nationwide trend to prevent students from outsourcing reasoning before developing critical thinking. Anthropic released Fable 5.1, significantly cheaper for agentic tasks with better coding and reasoning performance, and also released Mythos 5.1, a deliberately restricted model for cybersecurity and biotech research only, marking the industry's first explicit build of models with different safety profiles for different purposes.

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