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Meta's AI spending ambitions took a backseat to regulatory action. The EU issued preliminary DSA findings against the company, while a $100M defense AI raise and a 4M-car Google deployment marked concrete progress on where AI is actually landing.

4 million — GM vehicles getting Gemini pushed via OTA update, making this one of the largest single AI rollouts outside a phone platform. (The Next Web)

Meta Charged With Failing to Keep Children Off Instagram and Facebook in Europe

The EU's preliminary DSA findings — that Meta can't reliably verify a user's self-declared birthdate — are less a surprise than a formal acknowledgment of what everyone already knew. (NYT)

General Motors Is Adding Gemini to Four Million Cars

An over-the-air update swapping Google Assistant for Gemini across 2022-and-newer Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles is one of the largest in-car AI deployments ever. (The Verge)

Scout AI Raises $100M to Train Its Models for War

The startup is building AI agents to help individual soldiers command fleets of autonomous drones — and TechCrunch got inside the training ground where it's doing it. (TechCrunch)

Musk Started OpenAI to Prevent 'Terminator Outcome'

Day one of Musk v. Altman produced the obvious quote, in a federal courthouse in Oakland, with WIRED live in the room. (WIRED)