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Defence · Government · Frontier · 8 stopsThe Pentagon, the labs and the limits on useWho decides how the US military may use frontier AI: the government that buys it or the companies that build it?
  1. Pentagon AI office awards Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI up to $200m each
  2. OpenAI, Anthropic and Google offer frontier AI to US agencies for about $1 via GSA
  3. Hegseth orders an 'AI-first' military and 'any lawful use' terms for AI contracts
  4. Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk after it refuses to drop two limits
  5. +4 more stops
Compute · 10 stopsFrom diffusion rule to chip dealsHow did US AI-chip export policy shift from global tiers to negotiated, deal-by-deal access, and how did China push back?
  1. US scraps AI Diffusion Rule and warns against using Huawei Ascend chips
  2. Stargate UAE: 1GW OpenAI cluster planned in Abu Dhabi, first 200MW due in 2026
  3. China's internet regulator summons NVIDIA over alleged security risks in H20 chips
  4. China's market regulator finds preliminary NVIDIA antitrust breach over Mellanox deal
  5. +6 more stops
Compute · 8 stopsPower is the bottleneckWho is paying for, and who gets to connect, the electricity that gigawatt-scale AI data centres need?
  1. OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and MGX launch $500bn Stargate data-centre venture
  2. OpenAI signs 6GW AMD GPU deal and gets warrant for up to 160m AMD shares
  3. AI Action Plan
  4. Meta signs nuclear deals with Vistra, TerraPower and Oklo for up to 6.6GW by 2035
  5. +4 more stops
Defence · 10 stopsProject Meridian and the race to govern military AIAs the US builds an AI-first military with its own autonomous warfare command, who is setting the limits on military AI, and where?
  1. EU AI Act
  2. EO 14179
  3. UN General Assembly backs autonomous-weapons resolution 164-6; US votes no
  4. Hegseth orders an 'AI-first' military and 'any lawful use' terms for AI contracts
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Defence · 9 stopsWho supplies the AI-first military?Which companies are becoming the AI suppliers to Western militaries, and on what terms?
  1. NATO buys Palantir's Maven Smart System for its operational headquarters
  2. Pentagon AI office awards Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI up to $200m each
  3. US Army folds 75 Palantir contracts into one deal worth up to $10bn
  4. Department of War launches GenAI.mil with Google's Gemini for Government
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Finance · 7 stopsIs the AI boom a financial-stability risk?How did central banks and regulators move from worrying about AI valuations to worrying about AI debt and circular financing?
  1. FSB says AI monitoring in finance is immature, flags supplier concentration
  2. Senate Democrats ask Treasury and FSOC to probe AI-sector debt risks
  3. Half of Fed survey contacts now name AI as a salient financial-stability risk
  4. Bank of England flags AI debt boom, circular financing and AI cyber threat
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Finance · 9 stopsFrom principles to kill switches: finance AI rulebooksHow are financial regulators turning high-level AI principles into enforceable controls?
  1. RBI FREE-AI Framework
  2. RBI publishes FREE-AI framework for AI in India's financial sector
  3. MAS consults on AI risk management guidelines for all financial institutions
  4. US Treasury releases AI lexicon and finance-specific AI risk framework
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Frontier · 8 stopsWhen models learned to hackHow did frontier models' cyber-offence abilities change the way labs and governments release and police them?
  1. Anthropic discloses largely AI-run espionage campaign by Chinese state group
  2. Anthropic withholds Claude Mythos Preview, gives it to defenders via Project Glasswing
  3. US CAISI signs national-security testing deals with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, xAI
  4. EO 14409 (covered frontier models)
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Frontier · 8 stopsTransparency, not licensingWhat legal duties do frontier AI developers actually face in 2026, and where?
  1. EU AI Act
  2. EU publishes General-Purpose AI Code of Practice ahead of AI Act model duties
  3. California enacts SB 53, first US state law on frontier AI transparency
  4. State AI law preemption EO
  5. +4 more stops
Government · 8 stopsWashington vs the states on AI rulesHow is the US federal government trying to override state AI laws, and how far has it got?
  1. EO 14179
  2. White House publishes America's AI Action Plan and three executive orders
  3. Trump executive order targets state AI laws with litigation and funding pressure
  4. Attorney General sets up DOJ AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state AI laws
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Government · 7 stopsProcurement as AI policyHow has the US government used its buying power to shape which AI it uses and how labs behave?
  1. OMB replaces Biden-era rules with new memos on federal AI use and AI buying
  2. White House publishes America's AI Action Plan and three executive orders
  3. OpenAI, Anthropic and Google offer frontier AI to US agencies for about $1 via GSA
  4. OMB memo M-26-04 makes 'unbiased AI' terms mandatory in federal LLM contracts
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Health · 9 stopsWho decides if a medical AI is safe?As AI moves from narrow imaging tools to chatbots and agents, who is responsible for proving it is safe to use on patients?
  1. FDA PCCP guidance
  2. FDA loosens oversight of AI decision-support software and health wearables
  3. OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, linking medical records and wellness apps
  4. Illinois bars AI from delivering therapy without a licensed professional
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Health · 7 stopsCan an algorithm deny your care?Who is allowed to use AI to approve or refuse treatment coverage, and what human check is required?
  1. HHS publishes department-wide AI strategy built on a 'OneHHS' platform
  2. Medicare starts WISeR, an AI-assisted prior-authorisation pilot in six states
  3. Anthropic launches Claude for Healthcare with HIPAA-ready tools for providers and payers
  4. Colorado AI Act (SB 24-205)
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Information · 9 stopsWho is winning the AI training copyright fight?Do AI developers need permission to train on copyrighted work, and how are courts, governments and rights holders answering that in 2025-26?
  1. GPAI Code of Practice
  2. UK High Court rejects Getty's secondary copyright claim against Stability AI
  3. Munich court rules ChatGPT's memorised song lyrics infringe copyright (GEMA v OpenAI)
  4. Warner Music settles with Suno and agrees licensed AI music models for 2026
  5. +5 more stops
Information · 9 stopsChildren, companions and deepfakesHow are governments responding to AI chatbots and image generators harming children?
  1. FTC orders seven firms to explain how AI companion chatbots protect children
  2. SB 243
  3. Character.AI and Google agree to settle lawsuits over teen suicides and self-harm
  4. Ofcom opens Online Safety Act probe into X over Grok sexualised deepfakes
  5. +5 more stops
Science · 8 stopsWhen AI started doing real mathematicsHow far has AI got in research mathematics, and how far can its claims be trusted?
  1. Gemini Deep Think earns officially graded gold-medal score at IMO 2025
  2. Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve agent improves algorithms and open maths bounds
  3. Review of 445 LLM benchmarks finds widespread construct-validity weaknesses
  4. DeepMind study: most AI 'solutions' to open Erdős problems were already in the literature
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Science · 8 stopsGovernments bet on AI for scienceHow are governments organising and funding AI-driven research, and what are labs delivering alongside them?
  1. ECMWF puts its machine-learning weather model AIFS into operational use
  2. AI Action Plan
  3. Trump executive order launches Genesis Mission for AI-driven science at DOE
  4. AI Opportunities Action Plan
  5. +4 more stops
Work · 10 stopsIs AI taking jobs yet?What does the evidence say about AI's effect on employment, and how are lawmakers reacting?
  1. ILO refined index: one in four jobs worldwide exposed to generative AI
  2. Amazon cuts about 14,000 corporate roles, citing the pace of AI change
  3. IMF: new AI-linked skills lift wages but widen inequality and hit young workers
  4. Anthropic 'observed exposure' study finds no jobless rise but fewer young hires
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Work · 9 stopsWho audits the hiring algorithm?Are the rules on AI in hiring and firing actually being applied, or are they being softened?
  1. NYC Local Law 144
  2. NY Comptroller finds New York City barely enforces its AI hiring law
  3. California finalises civil-rights rules for AI in hiring, effective 1 Oct 2025
  4. HB 3773
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Each topic is an automatic line, in date order

Frontier models 34Standards and codes 25Safety testing 25Government buying 21Investment and financing 18AI agents 18Sovereign AI 18Military AI 17Courts and liability 17Clinical AI 15Data centres 15Public services 15National security 14Financial risk 14Deepfakes 13Cybersecurity 13Export controls 13Jobs and the workforce 12International cooperation 12Chips 12Copyright 10Children and teens 10Labelling AI content 9Model releases 9Mathematics 8Hiring algorithms 8Bias 8Autonomous weapons 7Biology 7Medical devices 6AI incidents 6Privacy 6Fraud and scams 6Open-weight models 6Surveillance 5Energy and power 5Drug discovery 5Education 5Robotics 4Biosecurity 2

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Every company, agency and court with three or more developments

OpenAI 30Anthropic 20Google 16Google DeepMind 12NVIDIA 12Department of War 10xAI 10European Commission 9Microsoft 8The White House 8FDA 6Department of Justice 5Meta 5EU AI Office 4Office of Science and Technology Policy 4Bureau of Industry and Security 4Department of Commerce 4MeitY 4European Parliament 3Council of the European Union 3Huawei 3Department of Energy 3Oracle 3Amazon 3Bank of England 3FTC 3NIST 3CAC 3US Treasury 3Chief Digital and AI Office 3