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Friday, June 12, 2026

AI Daily

Your Automated Intelligence Briefing

Policy

Anthropic Asks Washington for the One Power the White House Just Refused to Take

Dario Amodei's new policy paper calls for government authority to block dangerous AI models, with penalties tied to global revenue. It landed eight days after a White House executive order that explicitly promised no licensing, no preclearance and no veto. American AI policy now has a fault line running straight through it.

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Robotics

The Humanoid Gold Rush Hits $1.4 Billion. The Robots Are Still in the Mail.

Germany's Neura Robotics raised Europe's biggest-ever humanoid round, led by stablecoin issuer Tether with Amazon and Nvidia aboard. The entire humanoid sector booked roughly $340 million in revenue last year, and the same week a Google DeepMind partner admitted its robot demo video was fake.

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Europe

Brussels Dusts Off a Weapon It Hasn't Used in 17 Years, and Points It at AI

The European Commission's first interim antitrust measure since the smartphone era orders Meta to reopen WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots within five days, under threat of fines up to 10 percent of global turnover. With the AI Act fully applicable in August, Europe has moved from drafting rules to enforcing them.

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