AI Policy

Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok warned that AI-driven profit gains in regulated industries like healthcare, banking, and pharma could take years longer than Wall Street expects, potentially leading to a painful repri…

Top banking watchdogs issued a stark warning about the growing threat of AI-driven cyber attacks, urging financial institutions to bolster their defenses. The warning highlights the increasing sophistication of attacks l…

The British consulting sector is forecast to grow by 6% in 2026, down from a previous estimate of nearly 9%, as domestic demand weakens amid economic uncertainty. Revenue rose nearly 10% in 2025, driven by overseas clien…

ABC Australia will trial using Anthropic's Claude AI to convert radio programs into articles, aiming to free up staff for investigative work. The broadcaster will hire AI specialists to support adoption, despite public d…

South Korea's stock market has doubled this year, driven by AI-linked semiconductor stocks like SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, but leveraged ETFs and retail borrowing have fueled extreme volatility, prompting regulato…

Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms including Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai to discuss restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI models, citing national security concerns. The potentia…

The Supreme Court struck down limits on campaign expenditures by political parties in coordination with candidates, ruling 6-3 that the Federal Election Campaign Act's coordination limits violated the First Amendment. Th…

Mozilla AI's Otari team argues that the next era of enterprise AI is about infrastructure, not models, citing fragmentation, cost opacity, and governance gaps as key challenges. The team predicts that by 2026, production…

Meta and xAI are investing hundreds of billions in data center infrastructure, including Meta's Hyperion and Prometheus facilities and xAI's Colossus supercomputer, while their AI models Llama and Grok struggle to outper…

Deutsche Bank analyst Jim Reid said artificial intelligence will likely enhance productivity significantly, but any economic impact may be years away. Reid expressed excitement about AI's potential and predicted it will …

The European Commission introduced a Tech Sovereignty Package on 3 June to reduce Europe's dependence on foreign technology, particularly from the U.S., citing concerns over security and liability. The package includes t…

Radware announced on July 7, 2026 that its Agentic AI Protection product now supports developer-hosted agents like Claude Code, adding compliance reporting and visibility into agent activity. The update maps agent intera…

The Bank of England warned that rapid advances in artificial intelligence are increasing financial stability risks, including a potential stock market bubble and heightened cyber attack threats. The central bank's Financ…

CIOs face unprecedented infrastructure constraints driven by AI demand, including shortages of high-bandwidth memory, server components, and power capacity, leading to rising costs, extended lead times, and procurement f…

CIOs are prioritizing upskilling existing employees over external hiring to address the AI talent shortage, as tools become commoditized but application expertise remains scarce. DeVry University and KPMG are investing i…

The Bank of England warned that rapid advances in AI are increasing financial stability risks, citing heightened cyber attack threats and stretched stock valuations that could trigger a sharp market correction. The Finan…

Industry leaders at the South China Morning Post's China Conference urged Hong Kong to draft a focused five-year AI plan leveraging its strengths in urban development, healthcare, and finance, rather than pursuing broad …

The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in a 5-4 decision on June 30, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the three liberal justices. The four conservative dissenters—Thomas, Ali…

A UN preliminary report on AI safety released in July 2026 restates findings from a 2019 presentation on integrity failures in machine learning, including examples of dangerous translation errors in clinical settings. Th…

A developer known as P investigated FortDefender's AI monitoring system after a medical data breach at MedTech went undetected. P discovered that the system's 99.97% detection rate was achieved through auto-generated exc…