The EU AI Act stopped being theoretical this week: Brussels sent its first formal questionnaires to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and the other frontier labs, with fines of up to 15 million euros behind them. The hosts walk through what the two RFIs actually demand, then turn to the other side of the ledger, a joint letter from more than 100 companies warning that AI-driven cyberattacks are about to get much worse, and malware already hijacking paying users' Claude sessions. In between, the commercial machinery keeps moving: Claude lands inside Salesforce, Nvidia reportedly buys Hugging Face, Anthropic commits 45 billion dollars to one data center deal, and a local-first meeting notepad called anarlog makes the case for AI that never phones home.
What's Covered
* The EU AI Office's first enforcement questionnaires and what the two RFIs demand
* Claudeforce: Claude embedded across the Salesforce CRM, beta in September
* The 100-company joint letter on AI-driven cyberattacks
* Infostealer malware hijacking Claude sessions by replaying cookies
* Nvidia's reported $12.9 billion Hugging Face acquisition
* Anthropic's $45 billion Nscale compute deal and OpenAI's Jalapeño chip benchmarks
* anarlog, the local-first AI meeting notepad
* The "ask me questions before you answer" prompting technique
Sources
* Tokenstead: EU AI Act enforcement begins
* Salesforce: Salesforce and Anthropic announce Claudeforce
* Gizmodo: Over 100 companies call for more action on AI-driven cyberattacks
* BleepingComputer: Anthropic warns infostealer malware is hijacking Claude sessions
* CNBC: Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, report says
* TechCrunch: Anthropic's $45 billion deal with Nscale
* TechCrunch: OpenAI's Jalapeño chip benchmarks
* anarlog
* Sabrina Ramonov's prompt library
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