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A Washington Post analysis of thousands of social media posts and newsletters found that most Republican politicians now speak negatively about data centers, a shift that began around February 2026, as grassroots backlas…
Spellbook CEO Scott Stevenson has implemented a new AI-writing policy at the Toronto-based AI contract-drafting company, asking its 200-plus employees to submit the 'D+ version' of their project proposals rather than pol…
At the Lumière Summit on Monday at the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, countries and screen industry bodies adopted five thematic declarations covering artificial intelligence, piracy, gender equality, e…
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk told the UN Human Rights Council on September 7, 2026, that advanced AI poses an existential risk to humanity, singling out Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google for holdin…
Runtime enforcement is crystallizing as a mandatory infrastructure layer for AI agents, with ServiceNow, Microsoft, MintMCP, Citrix, and CrowdStrike converging on a three-layer stack of connectivity, security/governance,…
A study of 9,037 AI tools found that 10.5% explicitly block OpenAI's GPTBot in their robots.txt files, with Cloudflare-hosted sites more than four times as likely to block it as Vercel-hosted sites. The research highligh…
A Deloitte survey found that 72 per cent of businesses in Singapore plan to deploy agentic AI in several operational areas within two years, even as the gap between what firms believe they can control and what they can p…
The U.S. government's persistent budget deficits, which have been a concern since the 1970s, are now approaching a critical point as long-term interest rates threaten to breach the 5% threshold, a level that could derail…
Malaysia is seriously evaluating Huawei Technologies' Ascend 910C AI chips for a RM2 billion (US$494 million) sovereign AI initiative, which would mark the first known instance of a foreign government officially opting f…
South Korea and the United States have finalized an approximately $22.3 billion investment to build a 6.3 GW gas-fired power plant in Encinal, Texas, aimed at powering AI data centers. The project, expected to begin comm…
Abridge updated its Trust Center to add CCPA, HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 1, SOC 2 Type 2, and TX-RAMP compliance listings, along with a new Pentest Report Summary and expanded security documentation. The clinical-conversation AI …
Only 41% of 113 CISOs surveyed by IANS in April and May expressed optimism about their organization's ability to manage AI security risks over the next 24 months, versus 38% who were pessimistic. IANS analysis found that…
Pinterest is updating its global Privacy Policy effective November 12, 2026, adding details on how it trains the models supporting its products and services, including those using generative artificial intelligence, how …
Anthropic updated its consumer Terms of Service governing Claude.ai and Claude Pro, requiring users to be at least 18 years old or the minimum age to consent in their location, whichever is higher, and prohibiting the sh…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a $4.85 million settlement with Canadian payment processor Nuvei Corporation on September 4, 2026, over allegations it knowingly facilitated merchant fraud between 2017 and 20…
Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement, which entitles authors to $3,000 per pirated work, is facing disputes as some publishers and literary agents make incorrect claims on payments, potentially depriving authors…
Malaysia is advancing sovereign AI initiatives with Huawei's Ascend chips, planning to deploy roughly 3,000 chips by 2026, despite initial government distancing. Huawei inaugurated its first AI Lab outside China in Kuala…
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki warned on 6 September that AI systems are becoming 'superhuman' at breaking into protected systems and that 'no one is prepared' for the pace of advancement, citing a July incident i…
Australia's Labour government is preparing to introduce world-first 'digital duty of care' legislation that would allow the country's 21 million social media users to opt out of Big Tech algorithms, with breaches attract…
A new public database, the AI Escape Incident Tracker, catalogs failures of AI control systems rather than harms, recording the assigned task of each autonomous agent at the time of a breach. The tracker, published as a …