AI Policy

California's proposed one-time wealth tax on billionaires would generate $100 billion over five years, an amount that would take 25 years of lost income tax revenue to match even if every billionaire in the state left im…

A Hacker News user proposed that submission titles should be flagged when content is entirely AI-generated, citing a rise in such articles reaching the front page. The user argued that these posts waste readers' time and…

YouTube announced it will make labels for AI-generated content more prominent on its platform, including zoomed-in indicators to improve visibility. The update aims to help viewers more easily identify synthetic or alter…

A 2026 Cloudian research report found that 75% of 212 senior IT decision makers had moved workloads from the cloud back to on-premises infrastructure in the prior 24 months, driven by security, compliance, AI workloads, …

A 47-year-old man, Stephen Buckley of Hunters Wood, Ballyseedy, Tralee, Co Kerry, was convicted and fined €400 at Tralee District Court after pleading guilty to possessing child pornographic material generated using arti…

Global Research published an opinion piece arguing that the ongoing data center buildout for AI carries hidden economic and energy costs, reporting that an MIT analysis found AI cost-effective in only about 23% of basic …

Researchers have systematically excluded women, particularly pregnant women, from clinical trials since post-thalidomide FDA guidance, leaving 79% of pregnant women taking at least one medication without adequate safety …

Federal efforts to track drug-impaired driving fatalities have stalled under the Trump administration due to workforce cuts and reduced federal investments, leaving a significant data gap on a growing public safety issue…

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora warns that the next six months in cybersecurity will be unprecedented, with AI serving as both the primary threat and the only viable defense. In a conversation with South Park Commons…

As artificial intelligence eliminates jobs and concentrates wealth among tech billionaires, declining payroll-tax revenues are failing to fund the retraining programs and social safety nets needed by displaced workers. P…

The Model Openness Tool (MOT), presented by Arnaud Le Hors at Open Source Summit North America 2026, aims to help users assess the true openness of large language models (LLMs) that are often misleadingly labeled as open…

OpenAI and Anthropic have spent millions in a political proxy war over AI regulation, but their efforts to defeat New York state assemblyman Alex Bores have backfired, turning the once-obscure candidate into a front-runn…

The U.S. government has approved a secret $9 billion request for Nvidia GB10 superchips to help the CIA and NSA keep pace with private-sector AI leaders like Anthropic and OpenAI. The chips, which deliver 1 petaflop of A…

Researchers found that all major AI chatbots failed compliance tests designed to assess adherence to the European Union's upcoming AI regulations. The study revealed that none of the prominent bots met the required stand…

The 2nd Princeton CorpGov Forum convened boardroom leaders to address the integration of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity into corporate risk measurement. The event focused on how directors can evaluate and over…

For French B2B SaaS companies, Mistral AI offers a stronger alignment with sovereignty and GDPR compliance than OpenAI, as Mistral provides native European hosting and contractual guarantees against data retraining. Whil…

YouTube is updating how it labels AI-generated content, making disclosure badges more prominent and beginning automatic tagging when its systems detect "significant photorealistic AI use." Creators remain required to man…

TIME held its first-ever TIME100 AI Leadership Forum in New York City, bringing together leaders from the TIME and TIME100 AI communities to discuss artificial intelligence’s impact on business, policy, ethics, and socie…

Karan Bhatia, Google's Global Head of Government Affairs & Public Policy, praised Singapore's approach to artificial intelligence during a visit for Asia Tech x Singapore and the AI Ready ASEAN Youth Challenge. Bhatia st…

South Korean authorities arrested YouTuber Kim Se-ui on suspicion of using AI voice-cloning technology and doctored screenshots to defame actor Kim Soo-hyun. The Seoul Central District Court approved the arrest warrant, …