Welcome back! Today is about how much muscle AI has grown over governments, courts and your job. Washington switched off Anthropic's two best models for every foreign user on the planet, then watched Europe scramble for a way around it at the G7. The same week, the feds told a court that Elon's data center is too important to national security to follow clean-air law. And OpenAI poached the man who helped invent the tech all of this runs on, while Accenture says your company now has to onboard its AI agents like new hires.
In today's Generative AI Newsletter:
G7: Why did the world's AI bosses get two hours alone with the G7?
xAI: How did a polluting data center become a national security asset?
OpenAI: Who did OpenAI just take from Google, and why does it sting?
Accenture: What happens when your newest coworker is a bot HR has to manage?
Start on June 12. The US Commerce Department used national security export controls to ban Anthropic from giving its two most powerful models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, to any foreign national.
Why? Amazon's CEO flagged a jailbreak that could unlock Mythos's ability to run cyberattacks, and the White House moved fast.
Now jump to the G7 in Évian on Wednesday.
France hosted, so Macron set the guest list, and he made AI the main course. He personally invited Sam Altman, sat him down with Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and a dozen more tech bosses across from Trump and the other leaders, and pitched a fix he's calling "trusted partners."
That fix is a workaround. It would let allied countries and companies use restricted US models like Mythos to build their own cyberdefenses, around the very ban Washington just imposed.
Macron's case to Washington was that nobody keeps buying American AI if it can be switched off at any moment.
The strangest moment came from Altman, who told the room not to hand the job to companies like his. "We develop the technology, and the citizens of the free world make the rules," he said. Read that as humility or as a CEO who knows the rules get written either way.
No binding deal came out of the lunch, just a clear picture of who needs whom now.
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Claude bad, Grok good. The USA used “national security” as a reason to ban Mythos. But they also used the same exact reason to protect Grok.
The Justice Department asked a federal court to throw out a pollution lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI. The data center in Southaven, Mississippi trains AI the DoJ called "critical to the economy and the Department of War," so the machines powering it have to keep running.
The NAACP sued in April over 57 methane-gas turbines, each the size of a bus, running without air permits, calling it one of the region's worst polluters.
xAI's two data centers around Memphis sit near neighborhoods that have fought the buildout. The DoJ's answer was that the turbines stay, because the AI is too important to switch off.
It even pointed to the military version of Grok, which it said helped deploy 2,000 munitions at 2,000 targets in 96 hours in the war with Iran.
So the same national security that let Washington switch Anthropic off abroad is keeping Elon's turbines on at home. One lever, and it swings whichever way the administration needs.
Noam Shazeer is leaving Google for OpenAI, and that lands harder than a normal job move.
He co-leads Gemini, and he co-wrote the 2017 paper that invented the architecture nearly every model here runs on.
Google paid a reported $2.7 billion to bring him back from his own startup less than two years ago. Now he's walking, right as OpenAI heads for its IPO.
The talent war has mostly run the other way, toward Anthropic, where engineers leave OpenAI at roughly eight to one, by recruiting data Fortune reported last year.
Meta spent last year throwing $100 million offers at researchers to pull them from everyone else. OpenAI landing a name this big, straight from Google's crown jewel, is the rare win that goes the other direction.
Shazeer's career is the whole boom in one resume. He joined Google in 2000, left to start an AI company, got bought back for billions, and is now off to the lab racing to go public first. The people are worth more than the models right now, and every lab is bidding.
Accenture's UK and Ireland CEO told the FT that companies are about to hand HR a strange new task, onboarding and training the AI agents working next to you. Not the software team, HR, the same people who run your reviews and your benefits.
Accenture found 84% of executives expect AI agents working alongside people within three years, but only 26% of workers have had any training on how to work with them. The agents are showing up before anyone's been taught to manage them.
It fits the rest of today. Kalshi says AI is now the top driver of US job cuts, and Bezos spent his VivaTech stage swearing AI won't make humans redundant. Accenture's version sits between them. Your next coworker is a bot, and someone in HR owns it.
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AI is now the top cause of US job cuts: A new report puts it at number one, flagged by prediction market Kalshi.
Bezos isn't buying the doom: On stage at VivaTech he said he "totally disagrees" that AI will make humans redundant.
Foxconn brought humanoid robots to Europe: At VivaTech it showed a full physical-AI stack, from NVIDIA chips to robots trained to help build its own hardware.
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