The policy week. Six posts, three providers and the regulator, all on a calendar.

The week opened on Monday with the OpenAI Safety Fellowship — a formal program for researchers focused on alignment, monitoring, and harm reporting. On Tuesday, Google published "An update on our mental health work", an unusually substantive post on how Google approaches Gemini's behaviour in mental-health-adjacent conversations. The same day, the EU AI Office published the AI Continent Action Plan delivering its major milestones, and opened a targeted consultation on measuring energy consumption and emissions of AI models. On Wednesday, Google followed with a post on how it built Gemail to keep your data secure in Gemini. Six substantive policy-layer posts in four days, none of them product launches.

The mental-health post is the most interesting. Google describes how Gemini routes mental-health-adjacent queries through a separate handling path, what the model is trained to escalate, and what it is trained to never produce. It also names the failure mode it is trying to avoid: model responses that appear supportive but in fact substitute for clinical care. The post does not claim to have solved this. It claims to be trying. That distinction is the right framing for any AI handling vulnerable users — the next-best-action question is not "does the model help" but "does the model know when to stop helping."

The EU energy consultation will look like a niche policy paper, but it is not. AI models are about to be subject to mandatory environmental disclosures in the EU, similar to the regime applied to data centres. The consultation is the early draft of the methodology those disclosures will use. If you operate any deployed AI workload in the EU, the responses filed during this consultation will shape the cost basis you report on next year. Worth reading even if energy is not your primary concern.

On the calendar, the Anthropic-DoD storyline continued unchanged. The Charlotin database crossed 1,300. The AI Lawsuit Tracker added two new copyright cases. The wire is quiet on the technical-failure axis this week; the policy axis carried the volume.