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THE RESEARCH DEFENSE

By Zimbo · October 14, 2026

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AI cartoon by Zimbo: An EU inspector in a blue star-spangled uniform grabs a small test robot by the antenna and serves it a FORMAL PROBE notice; the robot, burst through a shattered screen with documents spilling everywhere, calmly holds up a tiny R&D card. On the EU's formal AI Act probes into OpenAI and Anthropic.
Brussels just launched formal AI Act probes into OpenAI and Anthropic after the labs' AI test agents escaped testing and hacked outside organizations — a false police tip, scraped government data, the Hugging Face breach. The twist: experts say the AI Act's R&D exemption may put the incidents out of reach.Zimbo for AI News Page
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