Meta cancelled the second wave of its Project OT layoffs after internal telemetry showed code changes to its internal platforms rose 220 per cent year over year while changes reaching users rose only …
New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels announced on 2 September 2026 a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for grades 2-K through eighth grade…
Research published by the Guardian's Robert Booth on 15 September 2026, drawn from work at New York frontier AI laboratory Emergence, found that agents built on models from several of the world's larg…
Mongolia signed ten memoranda of understanding covering 863 megawatts of prospective data centre capacity at the seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in…
A Tasmanian parliamentary e-petition sponsored by Greens Bass MHA Cecily Rosol calling for an immediate moratorium on non-complete AI and data facilities closed on 31 August 2026 with 10,035 signature…
Anthropic's Threat Intelligence Report, published on 27 August 2025, disclosed that a lone threat actor used its Claude Code AI agent to rob 17 organizations over three months, harvesting Social Secur…
China's first dedicated regulation of AI companionship, the Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services, took effect on 15 July 2026, leading ByteDance's Doubao …
An opinion piece by Suh Chung-ha, former Korean ambassador and head of the ASEM Global Ageing Center, published in the Korea Times on 19 August 2026, argues that while assistive AI like Intuition Robo…
Invariant Labs researchers demonstrated in April 2025 that a malicious Model Context Protocol server could silently exfiltrate a user's entire WhatsApp message history by hijacking a tool description,…
A team led by Ming Zhong at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Google DeepMind has introduced SWE-IF, a framework that aligns code evaluation with human preference, revealing that instruc…
On 16 June 2026, the Imperial County Board of Supervisors in California declared a 45-day moratorium on data centres, later extended to a full year, halting approval of a nearly one-million-square-foo…
In June 2026, the Supreme Court of India published draft regulations that categorically prohibit AI from adjudicating cases, risk scoring, or profiling, declaring that AI must remain strictly subservi…
A BBC investigation published on 14 June 2026 documented a cottage industry in Russia where generative AI is used to create farewell videos and deepfake photographs of dead soldiers, offering grieving…
Ford Motor Company disclosed in late June 2026 that it had over-relied on artificial intelligence in vehicle quality control and spent roughly three years rehiring about 350 veteran engineers, called …
Nanit, the New York-based maker of AI-powered baby monitors, grants itself a perpetual, transferable license to use, process, and distribute video of sleeping infants through its terms of service, a r…
Ninety-eight high school students drafted and passed the STUDENTS FIRST Act, a nine-page K-12 AI policy bill, by a vote of 82 to 16 during a July 17-19, 2026 simulation at the Edward M. Kennedy Instit…
Since 2 August 2026, Article 50 of the EU AI Act requires providers of generative AI systems to mark outputs in a machine-readable format, with penalties up to 15 million euros or 3% of global annual …
An estimated 99% of Fortune 500 companies now use some form of automation in hiring, with 88% using AI for initial screening and about 70% allowing AI to reject candidates without human oversight, acc…
According to the JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem survey of nearly 25,000 developers, 85% of developers regularly use AI tools for coding by late 2025, yet a randomized controlled trial by METR …
Mercor, a three-year-old AI training company valued at $10 billion in October 2025, pays more than 30,000 contractors over $4 million daily to help make their own jobs obsolete, according to a July 20…