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Sam Altman is personally pitching Trump's inner circle on a 5% government stake in OpenAI, modeled on Alaska's oil dividend fund. Here's what's actually on the table, and why Bernie
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have moved from AI's periphery to its centre in 18 months. Here's the real strategy behind the 600 billion dollar bet, and what the viral
AI export controls forced Anthropic's top models offline worldwide for 19 days. The precedent is still reshaping global AI policy.
Austria wants the EU to host Anthropic. Days later, Brussels published the AI sovereignty law that shows exactly how hard that would be.
The EU AI Act's full enforcement lands August 2, 2026, just as Meta's open-weight Llama models spread through channels no regulator can fully monitor. Here's how open source AI governance
EU AI Act enforcement arrived in 2026 with fines up to €35m. AI governance platforms went from optional to essential almost overnight. Here's what they actually do.
Bryan Cranston shifted OpenAI's deepfake governance through union advocacy alone, no legislation or lawsuit required. New research shows why the stakes are higher than reputation: warnings don't stop deepfakes from
The AI regulatory landscape split in two in 2026: the EU pressed ahead with binding AI Act enforcement while the US federal government sued its own states to stop them
88% of organisations now use AI, but only a fraction have a real AI governance framework — and 51% have already had an AI-related incident. Here's how KPMG and INSEAD's
China's AI datacentre in Qinghai is already running at 3,579 petaflops on domestic chips alone, on track for 20,000. Here's how Beijing's Stargate-scale compute ambition is unfolding, and the latency
Albania's AI minister Diella just took a formal role awarding public tenders, the first cabinet-level AI appointment anywhere in the world. Here's what the promise of an incorruptible algorithm actually
The Apertus AI model has passed a million downloads since launch. Here's what real hospital and government deployments reveal about the gap between open and closed AI.
AI in local government is already cutting waste collection costs, speeding up Brisbane's traffic by 20 percent, and reshaping zoning decisions. Here's how suburban councils are quietly testing algorithms.
AI evidence in court is already causing real problems, from hallucinated case citations to judges weighing whether AI-generated reconstructions can be cross-examined. Here's how the law is scrambling to catch
AI diplomacy is now a lever of national power: from China's Digital Silk Road to the US export-control order that cut Europe off from Anthropic's most advanced models overnight. Here's
Illinois blocks AI therapy under a new law, the first of its kind in the US. See what it actually bans, allows, and means for patients.
AI-generated zero-click overviews now face a formal EU antitrust investigation. See what regulators found and what it means for publishers.
Dubbing was defined by pushback for a year. Now it's defined by a win: 25 French actors just forced an AI platform to remove 47 unauthorized voice clones. Here's how
Seventy-two percent of CEOs now say they personally own the AI decision at their company, nearly double last year's share. Meanwhile, three in four senior leaders admit they could not
AI infrastructure zoning lets hyperscale data centres bypass real scrutiny by hiding under generic industrial labels. Here's how New Jersey and Wyoming cases show the pattern, and why 48% of
AI landlord pricing software has now cost RealPage and settling landlords nearly $360 million, and RealPage is suing New York to stop a new ban on the technology entirely.
Decentralised AI governance promises accountability through blockchain, but the same features that make it appealing also make it nearly impossible to regulate. Here's where the combination genuinely works, and where
USCIS, CBP, and the State Department have all expanded AI-driven screening in 2026, from evidence-classification tools driving up visa denials to a Clearview AI facial-recognition contract awaiting public privacy review.
AI valuation tools, document review systems, and risk-scoring algorithms are entering family law proceedings — raising urgent questions about fairness, transparency, and the limits of algorithmic judgment in emotionally charged
AI power concentration means five companies control the infrastructure the entire AI economy runs on. Here's how the "new feudal web" argument holds up, and whether open source or regulation
The AI right to be forgotten exists on paper, but machine unlearning that can actually verify a person's data has been erased barely exists in practice. Here's the legal right
AI military strategy has already moved from prototype to battlefield reality, from Project Maven's drone analysis to autonomous weapons debated at the UN. Here's how it works, and why governance
AI political deepfakes hit New Hampshire voters with a fake Biden robocall in 2024, one of over 300 incidents Stanford tracked across 40 countries. Here's the liar's dividend effect making
AI is already making decisions in UK town halls about benefits, housing, and planning. Most residents have no idea -- and no meaningful right to challenge the outcomes.
AI in elections hit a breaking point in the 2024 UK vote, with 400+ pieces of AI-generated political content and no regulatory response. Here's why UK electoral law can't handle