AI Weekly News Briefing: OpenAI Restructures, AWS Flexes Silicon, and LSEG Goes All In on AI Data

This week in AI: OpenAI has officially grown up with a new governance structure and fresh regulatory sign-offs, Microsoft tightens its grip with a mega-stake, and the capital taps are opening wider than ever. We dig into what this new structure means for trust, safety, and OpenAI’s future power plays, plus the SoftBank funding wave and why enterprise buyers suddenly look a lot more comfortable betting big on AI. Meanwhile AWS isn’t waiting around. It’s pushing its own silicon agenda at massive scale, setting up a compute showdown with Nvidia that could reshape AI economics. And in London, the LSEG deal shows how premium financial data is sliding straight into AI assistants with enterprise-grade controls. We also hit the shifting AI security landscape, fresh EU moves to police deepfakes and election interference, and Google rolling Gemini into the smart home world.