US signs AI security order as EU staffs enforcement bodies

A White House executive order creates a voluntary frontier-AI framework; the EU appoints 234 experts to enforce the AI Act.

• White House signs executive order on AI innovation and security
• EU Commission appoints 234 independent experts to enforce the AI Act
• EU AI Act adds ban on AI systems that generate non-consensual intimate images
• AI data centres' power demands strain grids and face political pushback
• Claude Opus 4.8 becomes the first model to break the 60-point benchmark barrier