Finnish police opened a criminal investigation into Google for destroying forestland for a data center

Below are some of the highlights in AI, robotics, and machine learning for this past week.

Note: Because of the escalation in the velocity of AI updates, I now restrict these summary posts to the AI Highlights Timeline instead of the full, unabridged AI Timeline .

11/1

Study: 50-agent Minecraft colony fails to build a civilization

OpenAI adds stricter limits for teens asking about firearms

10/31

Google joins OpenAI and Anthropic in promising new scraping controls

Xbox manager says AI is already being used in game development

10/30

Finnish police opened a criminal investigation into Google for destroying forestland for a data center

The Wikimedia Foundation weighs in on the NYT’s case against OpenAI

Anthropic bars Claude from cloning existing games

‘Slopaganda’ AI-generated campaign ads skyrocket in 2026

SHL survey finds 1 in 5 U.S.…