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DOJ Investigates Andreessen Horowitz over Competing Board Seats in AI Data Startups

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened an antitrust investigation into venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), examining whether the firm violated federal competition laws by placing partners on the boards of direct competitors in the enterprise AI and data infrastructure market. The investigation, reported by Bloomberg, centers on board representation at Databricks and Fivetran. Both companies provide data ingestion, management, and pipeline infrastructure essential

DOJ has reportedly probed a16z for a year over AI board seats

OpenAI maps its safety practices to the EU AI Act GPAI Code

OpenAI has published details of how its safety, security, and transparency work aligns with the EU AI Act's General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice, as enforcement of the regulation's transparency provisions began on August 2. The company contributed to and endorsed both the GPAI Code of Practice and the separate Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content. The GPAI Code sets requirements for transparency, safety, and security across general-purpose models sold or deployed in th

The Fable 5 shutdown exposed a gap in US AI kill-switch authority

In June 2026, the Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to cut off global access to its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models just three days after launch. The order required Anthropic to block all foreign nationals from using the models. Because Anthropic could not verify user nationality in real time across dozens of cloud platforms, it shut the models down for everyone, everywhere, for over two weeks. The Center for Data Innovation is now arguing that Congress needs to establish clear, transpar