Leo Marchandon / Reuters:
The EC awards a six-year, €180M sovereign cloud contract to four European providers as part of a push to reduce the EU's dependence on non-European tech  —  The European Commission on Friday awarded a 180 million euro ($212 million) tender for sovereign cloud services to four European providers …

Financial Times:
Sources suggest Anthropic is holding off from a wider Mythos release until it can reliably serve it to customers; Anthropic has suffered outages in recent weeks  —  Dario Amodei met with Susie Wiles despite lawsuits over whether AI lab is a national security threat

Siladitya Ray / Forbes:
What some leaders think of using universal income to mitigate AI-fueled layoffs: Musk calls it the “best way”, OpenAI's policy doc mentions a Public Wealth Fund  —  Topline  —  Elon Musk on Friday touted what he described as “Universal HIGH INCOME” as a solution to deal …

Financial Times:
Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old start-up developing self-teaching AI and founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised $500M+  —  Group founded by former engineers at DeepMind and OpenAI secures $4bn valuation in deal with Google's venture arm and Nvidia

Axios:
White House says a meeting between Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Dario Amodei had been “productive and constructive”; source: Scott Bessent joined the meeting  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined a meeting on Friday between White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles …