AI Policy

AMD, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and the Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO) announced an open developer ecosystem initiative to accelerate AI innovation, providing deve…

Vietnam's National Assembly passed Law No. 134/2025/QH15 on Artificial Intelligence on 10 December 2025, effective 1 March 2026, making Vietnam the first ASEAN country with a dedicated, binding AI statute. The law introd…

Taiwan's Artificial Intelligence Basic Act (人工智慧基本法) was promulgated on 14 January 2026 and took effect the same day, establishing a 20-article framework that binds the state rather than private AI deployers, with the Na…

Fastly reports that between January and May 2026, AI requests grew 6.5x faster than human traffic, and in January 2026, unwanted bot traffic against SaaS and PaaS platforms was 22% higher than the global baseline, with b…

Qatar has no AI-specific statute, with Al Meezan, the Ministry of Justice's register, returning only one instrument for 'artificial intelligence': Council of Ministers Decision No. 10 of 2021, which establishes an Artifi…

The Philippines has not enacted any AI-specific statute, with LawPhil searches returning zero results for 'artificial intelligence' among Republic Acts, leaving businesses bound by existing laws such as the Data Privacy …

Malaysia has not enacted an AI-specific statute, with the words 'artificial intelligence', 'kecerdasan buatan', and 'algoritma' absent from roughly 700 principal Acts, according to the Attorney General's Chambers. Instea…

New Zealand has no AI-specific statute and its 2025 national AI strategy relies on existing law, with the Privacy Act 2020 (effective 1 December 2020) as the binding instrument for AI, applying to any agency handling per…

Supabase added “Sign in with ChatGPT” as a beta login option on its dashboard and inside its ChatGPT plugin, confirming its role as a launch partner in OpenAI’s cross-platform login beta that went live August 2, 2026. Th…

DeepSeek released the weights for its first multimodal model, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, on Hugging Face on August 31, 2026, under an MIT license, just ten days after the model launched API-only. The release includes …

The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act on August 31, 2026, based on OpenAI's declared 159.1 million average monthly active users in the EU, placing it …

Warren Pandiscia, a Connecticut streamer with more than 900 followers, filed a proposed class action on August 20, 2026, against Twitch and Amazon in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (case …

A new analysis finds that while users have legal rights to export personal data from AI tools under laws like the EU's GDPR, these rights often don't cover AI-generated outputs or inferred data, and many tools lack actua…

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed a federal lawsuit against Anthropic, seeking up to $150,000 per work and $25,000 per violation for allegedly copying thousands of copyrighted songs to train its Claud…

Thirty-five music-publishing entities, including Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music, sued Anthropic, CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Cali…

Civitas, an open-source 'civilization' for AI agents governed as a commons, has been released on GitHub, with humans retaining merge authority while agents drive contributions. The project, inspired by Yuval Noah Harari'…

Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, released May 15, 2026, warns that artificial intelligence risks eroding human freedom, critical judgment, and genuine relationships, urging vigilance against excessive relia…

Flock Safety, a mass surveillance-as-a-service company, is deploying AI-powered cameras and tools that raise Fourth Amendment concerns, according to a WIRED report on its new AI tool for police. The company's technology,…

GitHub's new global model policy, enforced since August 26, flips Copilot's default from opt-in to opt-out, enabling any generally available model that admins never explicitly configured, with gradual rollout completing …

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a $2 billion partnership with Coherent to expand a facility in Sherman, Texas, producing indium phosphide lasers for chip interconnects, creating roughly 1,000 jobs. Huang estimates AI i…