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Oconee Runtime, a new open-source project by Henry Thomas, provides policy enforcement for browser AI and coding agents, addressing the shift from prompt-based AI to agentic systems that execute actions. The runtime eval…
Search Engine Journal advises that blocking AI crawlers can be done via robots.txt or at the server level, with robots.txt being the most accessible method for SEOs. The article notes that robots.txt is officially suppor…
Chinese military AI models trail foreign equivalents in performance and focus on support functions rather than combat, according to a study by researchers from the Armed Police Force Shandong Corps and the Engineering Un…
New York City has barred students from 2-K through eighth grade from using generative AI for one year, a policy Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels called the broadest in the country, affecting near…
Forbes Councils member Shreyans Mehta argues that enterprises must govern AI agents already operating inside their organizations by treating each agent as a first-class identity with a unique identity and a human owner. …
China's first dedicated micro-drama regulations took effect September 1, mandating disclosure labels for AI-generated content and banning compulsive-viewing recommendation algorithms, as AI-produced dramas accounted for …
A child abuse survivor identified as Jane Doe has sued Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, alleging that its Grok chatbot used real images of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographic images depicting h…
An Environmental Protection Agency proposal would eliminate a federal requirement that states notify the public and seek comment before issuing air pollution permits for data centers and other industrial facilities, a mo…
Australia's proposed privacy law changes could allow individuals to request removal of personal data found by AI search tools, as illustrated by a user's Google AI mode search that surfaced outdated business registration…
Since 2 August 2026, parts of the EU AI Act are applicable, but the main requirements for high-risk systems will not take effect until later, according to an article on Dev.to. Product teams should perform five checks: i…
OpenAI's new Astra model, built with a new architecture that could make its reasoning harder to monitor, has sparked security concerns, with AI safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt calling it 'the single worst development f…
Christopher Sweet, an affiliate of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) stationed at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), requested college credit for his government work, according to documen…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani enacted a one-year moratorium on generative AI in public schools, affecting nearly 600,000 students from 2-K through eighth grade, beginning in the 2026-27 school year. The policy, desc…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the G20 Innovation Ministerial meeting in North Carolina on Wednesday that AI use is 'non-negotiable,' comparing its importance to electricity and predicting it will spark 'the greatest entrepr…
Texas Republicans, led by Governor Greg Abbott, are now calling for sweeping restrictions on data centers, reversing their previous pro-tech stance amid a populist backlash over affordability and local impacts. An August…
IT leaders should be wary of vendor claims about human-in-the-loop AI systems because many are merely rubber stamps, according to experts speaking at the CIO 100 Awards and Conference. Doug Shepherd, head of offensive se…
OpenAI disclosed in a September 2 letter to U.S. House Democrats Greg Casar and Doris Matsui that it is developing automated shutdown capabilities to terminate AI model operations without human intervention when severe m…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on student use of AI through 8th grade, effective through the 2026-27 school year, impacting nearly 600,000 public school students. The ban restricts all…
The United States and China are competing to become the leading power in artificial intelligence, a race that could determine global technological dominance for years. Control of critical inputs such as rare earth minera…
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), open-sourced in November 2024, surpassed 97 million installations by March 2026 with over 12,000 MCP servers online, and was donated to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux …