AI Policy

A federal judge in San Francisco ordered law firm Quinn Emanuel to pay $3 million to Palo Alto biotech company Guardant Health, plus a $100,000 punitive fine, for misconduct by four of its Silicon Valley partners. Judge …

A developer has created three free, ad-free Wikipedia-based search tools as alternatives to Google's AI-powered search results. The tools include MiniGladys for quick reference and official link searches, and Wikipedia S…

Anthropic published an updated "Constitution" for its Claude AI model, moving beyond simple behavioral rules to include explanations of the underlying reasoning behind each principle. The company aims to create AI system…

Organisations require human reviewers to check generative AI outputs for legal and reputational reasons, but those reviewers face high volume, time pressure and complex judgement calls as GenAI deployment increases. Two …

The Associated Press will provide its U.S. election vote-count results to OpenAI, making AP tallies available to ChatGPT users and OpenAI services through the 2028 general election. The deal supplies vote counts for nati…

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has completed his first year in office by steering a pragmatic diplomatic course that prioritizes national interests over ideological alignment. Lee balanced relations with U.S. Presi…

Credit default swap volumes on major U.S. tech firms hit record highs in December 2025, with exposure surging 90% since September as investors hedge against $121 billion in new AI-related debt. Oracle and Meta drew the m…

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te gifted former U.S. President Donald Trump a two-volume autobiography of TSMC founder Morris Chang during a May 27 reception in Taipei. The gift aims to deepen Trump's understanding of the se…

Unit 42 reports a significant decline in ransomware encryption use, dropping to 78% in 2025 as threat actors shift to data theft and extortion without encryption. Driven by advanced backups, endpoint defenses, and regula…

The Illinois Legislature passed SB 315, a bill requiring frontier AI companies to publish annual safety plans and undergo independent third-party audits for severe or catastrophic risks. The bill, which passed the House …

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged at a conference hosted by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia that his previous warnings about AI causing mass job loss were incorrect, saying he is "delighted to be wrong" about the imp…

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar used the term "backstop" at a November 2025 Wall Street Journal event while discussing financing for chip and data center commitments, prompting CEO Sam Altman and Friar to issue clarifying stateme…

Senator Elizabeth Warren proposed a new excise tax on energy consumption by AI companies and large data centers to fund worker protections, universal health care, and education. The Massachusetts Democrat named billionai…

OpenAI announced plans Wednesday to safeguard the 2026 midterm elections from AI-powered interference, including deepfakes and disinformation, by providing cybersecurity tools and election data to officials. The company …

Josh Newman, a former state senator and candidate for California Superintendent of Public Instruction, answered the Bay Area News Group’s primary questionnaire ahead of the June election. Newman highlighted his legislati…

The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded SpaceX’s Starship following another launch mishap, marking a fresh setback for the company’s flagship rocket program. The grounding halts further flights of the massive ve…

Religious leaders Elder Gerrit W. Gong of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Pope Leo XIV issued calls this week for artificial intelligence to be guided by moral and ethical principles, warning that unc…

The Information Security Forum argues that advances in artificial intelligence are shifting cybersecurity priorities from prevention to resilience, according to a Dig-In opinion piece published May 27, 2026. The ISF warn…

Journalist Fareed Zakaria told Bard College graduates on May 23, 2026, to reframe questions about artificial intelligence, arguing that people should focus on what makes human intelligence distinctive rather than what ta…

Microsoft released Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT), a Python library that enforces policies, identity controls, sandboxing, and SRE practices for autonomous AI agents. The toolkit intercepts every tool call, message, and …