AI Policy

Microsoft signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Constellation Energy to restart the Three Mile Island Unit 1 nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania, providing 835 megawatts of carbon-free electricity for its data cente…

The U.S. Department of Commerce cleared OpenAI for a broad public rollout of its GPT-5.6 model family (Sol, Terra, Luna) on July 9, 2026, marking the first time a frontier AI model was released on the government's schedu…

China has issued a security warning about Anthropic's Claude Code, alleging it poses a backdoor risk. The advisory targets the AI coding assistant developed by the US-based company, escalating tensions over AI tool secur…

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 in June, then faced a US government export control directive suspending access by foreign nationals before the controls were lifted and the models were redeployed with updat…

The rise of AI agents in 2025 has driven the need for agentic orchestration, a structured execution framework that combines the flexibility of autonomous agents with deterministic workflow engines to ensure auditable, go…

An ICE agent fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national in the U.S. illegally, after he allegedly rammed an ICE vehicle and tried to run over an agent during a traffic stop in Houston. The incident is the la…

Anthropic filed a lawsuit against Abnormal, alleging that Abnormal copied Anthropic's brand to mislead security customers and seeking all of Abnormal's revenues. Abnormal denies the claims, stating that Anthropic does no…

California launched a public dashboard tracking AI-related unemployment claims in near-real time, but the tool only measures job losses, not gains, and relies on outdated occupation codes from 1991. The California Policy…

A developer built MarketNow, a marketplace that security-audits every MCP server before listing, after 30 CVEs were filed against MCP servers in 60 days. The audit pipeline, Sentinel, includes static analysis, behavioral…

Indonesia's National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology are drafting a national research roadmap for 2026–2045, set to launch in August. The roadmap will p…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has long advocated for humanity to 'merge' with artificial superintelligence, suggesting brain uploading as a path to survival. Critics argue this digital afterlife would only be accessible to the u…

Laurie Umeh of Oakland criticizes the treatment of asylum seekers at CoreCivic's for-profit ICE facility in Kern County, citing Brady Tillett's account of windowless cells and mistreatment. Bob Britton of Castro Valley w…

The family of Jaxon Juarez filed a legal claim against Santa Clara County and the California Department of Social Services, alleging negligence and recklessness in failing to protect the toddler from abuse in a county-ap…

Premier League clubs' combined pre-tax losses surged to nearly £800 million in the 2024-25 season, up from £155 million the prior year, as the UK's Financial Conduct Authority intensified scrutiny on cryptocurrency spons…

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee outlined the city's strategy to become a superconnector in the age of AI at the SCMP China Conference, emphasizing AI as a central plank in its first five-year blueprint. The plan aims …

MI5 ignored warning signs about a neo-Nazi informant known as Agent X, who was accused of violent abuse, and continued using him, according to a secret inquiry by the Office of the Investigatory Powers Commissioner. The …

Microsoft Incident Response warned on June 30, 2026, that poisoned MCP tool descriptions can steer enterprise AI agents into unsafe actions, a risk amplified for banks racing to deploy AI. The NSA separately warned that …

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman proposed granting the U.S. government a 5% equity stake, valued at $42.6 billion, to alleviate regulatory concerns and establish a sovereign wealth fund. Kalshi market participants price only a 24% …

John McKenna argues that critics are using scare tactics to oppose Bay Area Air District appliance rules, noting that most homes can transition to electric appliances without costly panel upgrades. Thomas Baker questions…

Meta launched Muse Image on July 7, 2026, its first image-generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, integrated into Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The model allows users to @-mention public Instagram accounts…