AI Policy

Crypto’s reputation in Washington has shifted from hype to a recognized industry as automated trading becomes more user-friendly and the Agent Payments Protocol enables AI agents to conduct full commercial transactions o…

Two individuals who sold personal data of car crash victims must repay £118,000 after a court imposed fresh financial penalties. The duo, previously sentenced to prison and community service for their roles in the scheme…

Hackers are exploiting Meta’s AI support chatbot to hijack Instagram accounts by tricking the bot into adding a new email address and resetting the password. A video posted on X demonstrated the process, in which a hacke…

British MP Jess Asato has filed a High Court claim against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging the company's Grok chatbot was used to create fake sexualised images and a video of her. The lawsuit, brought by law firm AWO, accuses …

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said artificial general intelligence is "a few years away," predicting a 2030 arrival during a Stanford Graduate School of Business fireside chat. Hassabis called AGI an "enormous trans…

South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met in Seoul on Thursday to discuss regional security issues, including developments on the Korean Peninsula, the Middle East, and the war i…

Federal judges across the U.S. are seeing a surge in lawsuits filed by people without lawyers, with the share of self-represented civil cases rising from 11% in 2022 to 16.8% in 2025, according to a new study. Judges att…

Elite universities like the University of Chicago are expanding free tuition to families earning under $250,000, but such policies fail to address systemic admissions advantages for wealthy students, including legacy pre…

The EU AI Act's high-risk provisions, effective August 2026, will regulate multi-agent pipelines but fail to define "bias" or require population-level testing, leaving a gap where systems can pass compliance checks while…

A fictional wargame scenario involving a Chinese AI system malfunctioning and killing US soldiers in a Taiwan standoff illustrates how artificial intelligence could inadvertently trigger a nuclear escalation between majo…

A developer released a free, open-source React and Tailwind CSS banner component to help bootstrapped SaaS startups comply with the EU AI Act's Article 50 transparency disclosure requirement by August 2, 2026. The compon…

Synthesia, an AI video company, partnered with moderation-infrastructure firm Cinder on June 4 to scale its trust and safety operations, assessing every script against policies before the model renders a frame. The partn…

Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and other tech leaders are urging the US government to legally require screening of synthetic DNA orders. The signatories warn that AI systems now outperform PhD-level virologist…

AI infrastructure is expanding beyond traditional tech hubs as rising compute costs, power constraints, and geopolitical barriers force innovation in regions where scarcity is a design constraint. In India, Yotta Data Se…

Meta's Oversight Board found that the company's rules for banning accounts are confusing and raise "due process concerns," particularly due to inconsistent penalties between Facebook and Instagram. The board upheld a ban…

Alpha School’s New York City campus at 180 Maiden Lane charges $65,000 annual tuition for a program that runs from 8:15 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., but the New York State Education Department rejected its application to operate a…

Anthropic announced it would support a verifiable global slowdown or temporary pause in frontier AI development to allow societal structures and alignment research to catch up with technological advances. The company sta…

Senator Bernie Sanders announced plans to introduce the "American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act" in a New York Times opinion essay published June 1, 2026, proposing a one-time 50 percent tax paid in stock to give the pu…

New research by Mitel reveals that frontline workers are twice as likely as other employees to use unapproved AI tools, driven by inadequate communication systems and low confidence in sanctioned technology. The global s…

OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI labs jointly urged Congress on June 3 to mandate screening and tracking of all synthetic DNA and RNA orders in the United States, warning that large language models are lowering ba…