Italy's data protection authority was the first EU regulator to temporarily ban ChatGPT in 2023 over GDPR concerns, and the country's Agency for Digital Italy (AGID) now oversees public-sector AI unde…
The spread of local AI models that can run on personal computers or smartphones is making copyright enforcement harder, according to a report from Communia and analysis on the IPKat blog. The EU Copyr…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed on July 14, 2026, the creation of a US-led independent standards body for frontier AI models, modeled on FINRA, to conduct preflight testing of advanced AI …
Australia is creating a central Office of AI inside the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to coordinate artificial intelligence regulation nationwide, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will a…
Meta has sold over 7 million AI-enabled smart glasses in 2025, up from 2 million cumulative units in 2023-2024, and plans dozens more models including codenamed projects Modelo and Luna, but faces gro…
Romania's data protection authority, ANSPDCP, is enforcing the EU AI Act alongside GDPR, creating compliance requirements for the country's expanding IT sector and BPO/nearshoring hub. The Romanian AI…
Australia will not proceed with mandatory AI guardrails, instead relying on existing voluntary standards and a new AI Safety Institute, according to the December 2025 National AI Plan. Security practi…
A developer team has built a digital passport system for AI agents that records identity, authority, and legal backing on a public blockchain, using open credential standards and an IETF draft. The sy…
An investigation into AI datacentres reveals that the £8.2 billion complex in Scotland, claimed to be powered entirely by on-site renewables, faces significant energy sourcing and environmental challe…
Meta faces backlash over a series of controversial AI and privacy decisions, including launching an AI image generator that uses Instagram photos, facing EU fines for addictive platforms, and adding f…
Meta launched Muse Image, an AI image generator integrated into Instagram and WhatsApp that automatically opts in all public Instagram accounts, using their photos as training data without notificatio…
Researchers introduced Latent Policy Steering (LPS), a new offline reinforcement learning method that directly integrates Q-gradients from the original action space into latent-space optimization, ach…
Anthropic researchers discovered a hidden representational subspace called 'J-space' inside Claude Opus 4.6 using a new interpretability tool, the Jacobian lens, revealing that the AI can engage in si…
A new analysis of 3,519 AI-related job postings across eight EU countries reveals that for every professional hired to govern AI, nearly seven are hired to build it, with Sweden showing the widest gap…
Meta is testing a 'super sensing' mode for its Ray-Ban smart glasses that could enable continuous environmental recording, raising privacy concerns. The company sold over 7 million pairs in 2025, sign…
London workers face the highest exposure to AI-driven job displacement among major global cities, according to a new OECD report. Nearly 80% of jobs in the capital are highly exposed to generative AI,…
Debates over whether digital platforms have created a new economic system called 'technofeudalism' are intensifying, with critics arguing that platform power, behavioral capture, and rent extraction f…
The UK passed a generational tobacco sales ban aiming to eliminate smoking entirely, though its effectiveness remains uncertain. Meanwhile, an EU lawmaker investigating spyware was hacked by that same…
Synthetic media has escalated from a technical curiosity to a mainstream threat, with deepfakes projected to grow 900% annually to 8 million by 2025, driving corporate fraud, biometric bypasses, and n…
A developer warns that agent-to-agent messaging infrastructure must verify MiCA authorization before routing messages to EU peers, as 2,490 of 3,000 crypto service providers will become unauthorized o…