AI Policy

Cate Blanchett, Steven Soderbergh, and Nikki Hexum launched the Human Consent Registry, a free public utility tool that allows individuals to declare how their name and likeness may be used by AI. The registry, created b…

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 rollout is restricted by the US government, blocking general access initially and limiting availability to trusted partners. This follows similar restrictions on Anthropic's models, highlighting a trend …

Google's AI-generated search summaries are replacing traditional web links, undermining the open web by extracting value without returning traffic. Users increasingly rely on these summaries despite known errors, breakin…

TIDAL announced a new policy preventing fully AI-generated music from being monetized on its platform, effective July 15, 2026. The streaming service will tag AI-generated tracks with an 'AI' badge and remove music that …

Apple faces worsening pricing and supply issues through 2027 due to a memory supply-demand gap driven by AI server demand, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The company has already raised Mac and iPad prices by up to $5…

The Bank for International Settlements warned that the AI frenzy is adding to risks for an already vulnerable global economy, citing energy supply shocks and strained public finances. The BIS noted that AI-related invest…

Knowledge jobs are protected from AI replacement by a 'muck layer' of intuitive, hard-to-verbalize tasks like politics, gut feelings, and organizational inertia, argues a recent analysis. The growth of forward deployed e…

A federal antitrust class-action lawsuit filed June 25, 2026 in the Northern District of California accuses Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron of colluding to cut DRAM production, driving RAM prices up roughly 700% over four …

Amazon is evaluating alternative AI models after transitioning its Anthropic Claude integration on AWS to token-based billing in June 2026, exposing soaring enterprise costs. The $13 billion partnership faces complicatio…

Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon reintroduced the Health and Location Data Protection Act, which would ban data brokers from selling Americans' health and location information, including data …

California signed a first-of-its-kind centralized contract with Anthropic on June 29, 2026, to deploy Claude AI across state and local agencies, following Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order N-5-26 establishing AI sa…

A new poll from the Artificial Intelligence Policy Institute found that 68% of respondents support government review of advanced AI models before release, indicating bipartisan backing for stricter AI regulation.

Alphabet joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 29, with its stock rising about 4% on the debut, making it the sixth-largest weight in the index at roughly 4%. Despite the symbolic milestone, investors remain co…

CFOs are reshaping corporate strategy as AI investment grows, with median S&P 500 CFO compensation rising to $6 million in 2025 from $5.8 million in 2024, reflecting expanded responsibilities in capital allocation and go…

Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano has uncovered a massive cheating scandal involving at least 50 students in his advanced mathematical economics course, ECON 1170, who used artificial intelligence on a…

Oregon State and Washington State chose to rebuild the Pac-12 conference rather than join the Mountain West, preserving their athletic programs and the conference's legacy. Their decision to stick together and reconstruc…

Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon plan to introduce an updated Health and Location Data Protection Act that would ban AI companies from selling health and location data to brokers, including da…

Confluent Cloud introduces new capabilities for building secure, resilient, and compliant fraud detection systems in financial services, addressing the need for real-time streaming to prevent fraud before transactions se…

NVIDIA released a Secure Agent Workspace Reference Design to help enterprises govern autonomous AI agents that access sensitive data and business systems. The architecture shifts agent execution from user devices to mana…

AI skeptic Gary Marcus warned that hyperscalers like Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon could face low margins, intense competition, and high expenses, similar to airlines, as their massive capital expenditures on AI …