AI Policy

Andy Burnham's plan for a massive council house-building program, inspired by the 1970s, could reduce overall housing construction by diverting investment from private developers, according to Savills expert Lucian Cook.…

Anthropic hired Stanford economist Chad Jones, who argued in a paper that a 33% chance of human extinction from AI is acceptable if it leads to massive economic growth. Critics condemn the risk calculation as reckless, w…

Jamf announced general availability of AI Governance for Mac, enabling IT and security teams to discover actively-used AI tools, enforce policy controls, and generate audit-ready reporting. The new capability addresses t…

Apple released emergency software updates for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS on Monday, patching 29 security flaws earlier than planned due to rising AI-powered cyber threats. The company cited AI-driven hacking tools as the rea…

Anthropic faces escalating hostility from the Trump administration, including export controls on its Mythos AI model and a Pentagon supply chain risk label, after refusing to comply with new government demands. Unlike Op…

The IMF, BIS, and Bank of England have warned that leveraged AI investments pose systemic financial risks beyond inflated valuations. Record margin debt and leveraged ETF growth have created conditions for forced delever…

The European Central Bank hosted a discussion with OpenAI Chief Economist Aaron Chatterji at its annual Sintra forum, signaling that AI and tokenization are now front-burner policy issues for central bankers. The session…

Democrats have proposed updating a privacy law to ban AI companies from selling users' health data, citing risks from chatbots that collect personal information for training and sale.

HSBC warns of potential 'pain trades' that could surprise the stock market, including a more negative AI narrative and a stronger dollar. The bank notes that AI sector earnings expectations may be too low, while European…

California's broader unemployment measure, the U-6 rate, hit 10% in the third quarter of 2025, the highest in the nation and well above the national median of 7.3%. The state has long ranked high on this metric, with a 2…

A blog post on zettelkasten.de reports that junior software engineering roles are being reduced as senior engineers oversee AI agents, and that degrees are perceived as devalued because students delegate writing to ChatG…

Writer Benjamin Hollon reports in a personal essay that he is repeatedly asked about AI when he tells people he is a writer, a conversation he finds exhausting and unproductive. He expresses serious technical, profession…

Startup exits valued at $1 billion or more have reached their highest level since 2021, with 13 such liquidity events in Q2 2026, driven partly by SpaceX's IPO. Meanwhile, AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI are shifting f…

Dutch Central Bank chief Olaf Sleijpen argues that massive AI investments will cause short-term inflation but eventually pay for themselves through productivity gains. Sleijpen, who also sits on the ECB Governing Council…

Public standard-setting bodies have failed to produce harmonized technical standards for the EU AI Act, missing an August 2025 deadline and prompting the European Commission to stagger implementation into 2027 and 2028. …

Cynomi released a report on June 30, 2026, analyzing MSPs' top AI questions from Reddit, Perplexity Deep Research, AlsoAsked, and its own community. The report found MSPs are most concerned with handling risky client AI …

Anthropic paused its planned June 15 billing change for Claude Agent SDK and headless workflows after developer backlash and ahead of its IPO. The change would have moved agent usage off subscriptions onto separate credi…

Vinod Khosla advocates for linear generators from Mainspring Energy to power AI data centers, bypassing the grid bottleneck. Mainspring closed a $258 million Series F round in April 2025, with backing from Khosla Venture…

Tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Meta are embedding AI features across services, but users and publishers criticize the lack of opt-out options. DuckDuckGo saw a 30% increase in U.S. installs after Google's AI upg…

Lenovo announced new endpoint resilience and managed security offerings to address gaps in AI threat readiness, as 90% of IT leaders report concerns. The solutions combine devices, security technologies, expert services,…