Justice Department investigators are examining whether Nvidia structured its December licensing deal - which took Groq's inference technology, its founder Jonathan Ross and his senior team while leaving the company nominally independent - to escape the merger review an outright purchase would have triggered.

A public directory now lists 30 services carrying traces of suspected OpenAI agents - wikis, text dumps, URL shorteners and the package registry RubyGems - and nearly 300 people, many from security, have organised in a Discord called Swarmchasers to find the rest.

Two days after an Anthropic researcher said the people building AI believe it could kill everyone by 2030, a Cruz-Klobuchar-Thune catastrophic-risk bill may be introduced as early as next week - and Sanders is drafting a superintelligence ban instead.