OpenAI strengthens security with new Lockdown Mode while facing policy scrutiny; Google expands AI education initiatives and infrastructure investments across multiple sectors.

OpenAI unveiled Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks, representing a significant security advancement for AI systems handling confidential information.

The Trump administration is considering taking an equity stake in OpenAI, signaling potential government involvement in the company's governance and future direction.

Sriram Krishnan has departed his position as White House AI advisor, marking a shift in the administration's AI policy leadership structure.

Google is releasing Gemma 4 quantization-aware training checkpoints to optimize model compression for mobile and laptop efficiency, improving AI accessibility on edge devices.

Utah State Board of Education is partnering with Google to bring Gemini for Education to all K-12 schools statewide, expanding AI tools in public education.

Kaggle launched local development for AI Benchmarks, making it easier for developers to create and test AI evaluation metrics.

Google announced major data center and energy investments in Gray and Roberts Counties, Texas, including the Meitner Energy Center construction with Intersect.

A school shooting survivor is suing an AI gun detection firm after its system failed to identify a weapon, raising accountability questions for safety-critical AI systems.

S&P 500 rejected inclusion of SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with regulatory and structural concerns cited as factors in the index committee's decision.

Notion restored access to Anthropic after a service disruption, highlighting infrastructure dependencies between major AI companies and their partners.