The U.K. plans to ban children under 16 from major social media platforms starting in 2027, joining a growing international effort to restrict minors' access.
Why it matters: Governments worldwide are increasingly pursuing social media restrictions for minors amid concerns about young people's health, wellbeing and online safety.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Friday sent letters to four large infrastructure investors, requesting more information on their data center deals, Axios has learned.
She's specifically interested in possible overlaps between ownership of data centers and utilities (i.e., the demand and supply), but does not allege any wrongdoing.
Why it matters: There is growing political anxiety over data centers that underly the AI revolution, particularly as energy prices rise, and private equity's involvement pours populist fuel on the fire.
The markets are starting the week in their trillion-dollar IPO era, now that SpaceX shares are trading.
Why it matters: Think of Elon Musk's company like a pebble, a big one, thrown into a giant lake of equity — there will be ripples through the public and private markets, and they'll be rippling for a while.
Prominent cybersecurity leaders — including chief information security officers, security researchers and executives at Adobe, Zoom and Sophos — are urging the Trump administration to reverse restrictions on Anthropic's most advanced AI models, arguing the move hurts cyber defenders more than attackers.
Why it matters: Pulling back access to Anthropic's first publicly available Mythos-class model could kneecap cyber defenders just as they're bracing for a wave of AI-powered hacking threats, the leaders argue.
MINNEAPOLIS — The nation's most powerful labor unions have a message for potential 2028 contenders for president: It's us or the machines.
Why it matters: AI anxiety dominated much of the conversation at the AFL-CIO's national convention here last week, as leaders from the group's 65 affiliated unions called on politicians to impose significant AI regulations.
President Trump is demanding Congress attach his sweeping voting overhaul to legislation renewing a key U.S. surveillance authority.
Why it matters: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is among the government's most contested surveillance authorities, long opposed by privacy advocates and supported by security hawks. Its fate now hinges on Trump's unrelated demands for a voting bill.
Senior technical Anthropic staff are in Washington to meet with White House officials to try to fix a dispute that has taken the company's top models offline, a source close to the company tells Axios.
Why it matters: Anthropic is mobilizing quickly to make amends with the Trump administration, after safety concerns resulted in sweeping export controls on its most powerful models, Mythos and Fable.
