policy geopolitics
The EU AI Office Adds 38 Enforcers
Europe added 38 AI enforcers to an office reported above 140 people. Model vendors should rehearse the evidence request now.
The Weighted Average
Implied European AI Office staffing floor 178+ — The EU AI Office Adds 38 Enforcers Real wage-growth gap after 2023 6.7 pts — AI-Exposed Jobs Show a 6.7-Point Wage Gap Google Earth AI feature lifetime <48 hrs — Google Earth Pulled AI in Under 48 Hours Current iCloud+ monthly price span 60× — Apple Floats an iCloud+ Meter for Siri AI Pangram sample's flagged AI content from LinkedIn 62% — LinkedIn Makes Readers Label the AI Feed
The Wire
compute market power
Amazon's $220B AI Bet Drains Free Cash Flow
AWS grew 37% as Amazon raised capex to $220 billion and trailing free cash flow fell below zero. Buyers should benchmark the full stack.
models open source
Inkling-Small Makes Control a 23% Premium
Inkling-Small nearly matches its 975B sibling, but beta hosted inference costs 23% more than GPT-5.6 Luna. Open weights are the product.
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