AI Policy

Microsoft Corp. is cracking down on employee AI spending after an internal tracker revealed one worker in its Customer and Partner Solutions organization spent $28,000 on AI tools in a single 28-day period, far above the…

Meta released its 30B-parameter Muse Glimmer model under the Apache 2.0 license, a shift from the Llama Community License that removes restrictions on monthly active users, competition with Meta products, and training ot…

Meta launched Meta Compute on 1 July 2026 to sell surplus AI training and inference capacity, backed by its custom MTIA chips and a planned 2026 capital expenditure of $125 billion to $145 billion, including the $50 bill…

Meta Platforms Inc. gives away its most powerful AI models, including Llama and Muse-class releases, under the Apache 2.0 license, while CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word manifesto 'The Future is for Everyone' argues that…

Meta's Llama 4 open-weight models, touted as beating GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 on coding benchmarks, failed independent reproduction tests, with Rootly scoring Llama 4 last at 69.5%, raising trust and total cost of ownership…

Canada erected a giant sign reading 'Lake Ontario. Now and Always' on Saturday in response to the U.S. government's administrative renaming of Lake Ontario, while President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video of hi…

Former USAID head Jeremy Konyndyk linked Tesla CEO Elon Musk's DOGE budget cuts to the devastating Nepal floods, citing canceled disaster risk reduction projects and $420 million in climate work at NASA. Konyndyk noted t…

A new poll by Embod Research and published by Heatmap Pro shows 75% of Americans now oppose building AI data centers in their area, up from 42% a year earlier, with opposition spanning all demographics. Heatmap executive…

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on Flock's AI surveillance cameras amid bipartisan backlash, just ahead of a Texas Tribune investigation revealing the state spent over $30 million on the cameras, fun…

A new vendor-neutral framework called BROCS organizes enterprise AI enablement into five capabilities—Build, Run, Observe, Control, and Secure—to help organizations assess commercial and homegrown platforms before procur…

OpenAI cut off model access for Cursor on Friday after SpaceX completed its $60 billion acquisition of the coding platform, citing concerns that SpaceX will not comply with its terms of service based on Elon Musk's compa…

CVE-2026-12569, an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in PTC Windchill PDMLink and FlexPLM with a CVSS score of 9.8, is being mass-exploited by the threat actor Hazy Scorpius (also known as GRACEFUL SPID…

Google announced new Android app memory requirements starting in 2027, citing the RAM shortage driven by AI demand, and warned that non-compliant apps will be slowed down or terminated. The rules aim to prevent memory-ho…

Opposition to local AI data centers rose to 61% of U.S. adults in a June-July Annenberg Public Policy Center survey, up from 49% in the spring, and the issue is entering 2026 election contests in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and …

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Anthropic on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing the AI company of 'one of the l…

The knowledge and infrastructure needed to engineer a pandemic pathogen are becoming more accessible, according to Henry I. Miller in Quillette on August 30, 2026, raising concerns about AI-enabled bioweapons.

Dubai startups in 2026 face stricter UAE data sovereignty and AI Act compliance, making on-device AI a strategic moat for corporate data privacy, according to a technical article promoting the FRIDAY local-first AI agent…

Okta announced the general availability of Agent SSO on August 24, 2026, a new capability that registers AI agents supporting the Cross App Access (XAA) standard as first-class identities in its Universal Directory, prov…

Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music and 33 other music publishers filed a lawsuit against Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, accusing them of 'one of the largest and most blatant ongoing t…

More than 100 organizations, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, signed an open letter on Thursday urging governments and businesses to strengthen cyber defenses, warning that AI-enab…