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AI did not just dominate the product headlines in the first half of 2026. It became the defining force in global stock issuance, and one banker is already invoking the crashes of 2000 and 2021.

The first global, fully independent scientific body on AI has one blunt message for governments. The world cannot govern what it cannot understand, and the evidence often arrives too late to act on.

A US export order pulled Anthropic's top models offline worldwide. Austria's answer: invite the company to set up shop inside the European Union.

A Munich court drew a line the whole industry was avoiding. An AI Overview is not a list of links, it is Google speaking, and Google is liable when it lies.

Googling yourself is losing its meaning. A new site asks the real 2026 question instead, whether the major AI models can recall you at all without searching the web.

A single export-control letter took two frontier models offline worldwide in an afternoon. The fallout is now a G7 argument about whether allies can rely on American AI.

One in ten people worldwide now get news from AI chatbots, yet almost none of them click through to the source. The Reuters Institute's 2026 data shows what zero-click news looks like at scale.

The AI infrastructure race is no longer just about who has the most GPUs. Nebius just closed a $643 million deal to make each chip it owns produce far more output.

The biggest names in chips, cloud, and industry just put $1.4 billion behind a German robotics firm betting that the next AI race happens in the physical world, not on a screen.