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EU Rulebook, OpenAI Espionage & the AI Price War | Week in Review
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Europe wrote the world's first AI rulebook but lost the power game — plus an OpenAI espionage arrest, a historic model price crash, and persistent agents reshaping the stack. This is the AI news that matters right now.
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Europe wrote the rulebook on AI. And then wasn't invited to the meeting.
Here's the important distinction. The problem isn't just that Europe spent time regulating instead of building.
The security story out of OpenAI this week is worth pausing on. A Saudi national named Abdulrahman Alfozan was arrested on October ninth after allegedly planting an encrypted recording device inside an OpenAI executive conference room.
On the economics side, September twenty-first and twenty-second produced one of the sharpest single-week price compressions in AI history. Claude Opus five point five cut operating costs by forty percent.
The agent story is moving fast. Muse, Dots, Hark, Cue, and Pally all shipped recently with persistent cloud infrastructure, phone numbers, and wallets built in.
Meanwhile in the US, the regulatory picture is its own kind of chaos. All fifty states introduced AI bills in twenty twenty-five.
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