AI Policy

AWS has introduced cross-Region Inference (CRIS) on Amazon Bedrock, automatically routing generative AI model requests across multiple AWS Regions within predefined geographic boundaries to optimize capacity and latency.…

Microsoft shut down over 70 of its own GitHub repositories, including those related to Azure and AI coding agents, after hackers planted malware designed to steal credentials when opened in AI coding tools like Claude Co…

Owen McGrann's 'dead economy theory' argues that AI-driven labor replacement will cause economic collapse even without AGI, through a cycle of layoffs, spending cuts, and revenue decline. The essay criticizes tech CEOs a…

Dylan, organizer of the anti-AI anthology, reports progress on the project, noting strong submissions and extending the deadline. The anthology will include a limited print run and a free digital version, with a donation…

An AI model disproved a famous conjecture by mathematician Paul Erdős, finding a more efficient way to arrange pairs of points at equal distances than the regular grid he proposed. The breakthrough has prompted experts t…

Chip stocks pulled back on Tuesday as President Trump announced plans to meet with AI executives, signaling potential policy shifts in the artificial intelligence sector.

The European Commission published its tech sovereignty package last week, including the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) proposals that aim to reduce reliance on US hyperscalers. However, analysts said the shift towar…

King's College London will host a public panel on July 8th as part of London Data Week, aiming to demystify AI by exploring its imaginaries and practicalities. The event, part of the Reclaiming Futures project, features …

Anthropic's Claude Mythos program has reported 23,019 vulnerabilities but only demonstrated fixes for 75, raising questions about its claimed frontier-exclusive capabilities. Independent teams have reproduced the showcas…

The White House's executive order on AI governance signals a shift toward industry-government collaboration, but effective oversight requires accountability rather than heavy-handed regulation. Anthropic's responsible re…

Rutger Bregman, co-founder of the School for Moral Ambition, faces criticism for comparing AI skepticism to climate change denial and for questioning the impact of investigative journalism. The author argues Bregman's pr…

NVIDIA and its partners are showcasing progress on the U.K.'s sovereign AI ambitions at London Tech Week, one year after NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared the nation would become an AI make…

The EU AI Act imposes board-level accountability for AI governance, requiring CIOs, CISOs, and compliance leaders to establish organizational structures such as AI inventories, designated human oversight, and documentati…

Microsoft's GitHub Copilot shifts to per-token billing, signaling the end of subsidized AI and passing real costs to consumers and enterprises. Open-source AI SRE tool Nightwatch (ninoxAI) launches with read-only agentic…

XAI has formed partnerships with Anthropic and Google to provide massive datacenter capacity, with fees reaching $1.25 billion per month for 300 MW of capacity. The deals, which include cancellation clauses, are seen as …

Anthropic successfully lobbied the Trump administration to adopt government oversight of artificial intelligence, leading to a May 2026 executive order that created a voluntary review process for new AI models before pub…

Om Malik critiques Anthropic for naming its most powerful AI model Mythos, arguing the term encodes an instruction to receive rather than verify, contrasting with the company's stated mission of AI safety. He draws paral…

Hackers on the Hill returns to Washington DC on June 16, 2026, as the first Capitol-side researcher-to-policymaker gathering of the year. The White House signed the Mythos-era AI cybersecurity executive order on June 2, …

Congress has failed to pass comprehensive tech regulation for decades, while states like California are moving to regulate AI risks such as privacy violations, job losses, and existential threats. AI leaders Sam Altman a…

A reader reported reading fewer articles than usual in week 23 of 2026, citing time spent catching up on recorded talks from re:publica 26 and personal struggles with depression. Notable reads included an analysis of Cha…