AI Regulation
As AI accelerates, governments race to regulate it: the EU passed the AI Act, the US and China are shaping their own approaches, and copyright and data lawsuits are mounting. These decisions determine what AI businesses and people can actually use. Here is all our coverage of AI regulation: laws, lawsuits, standards and policy across the major jurisdictions.
Privacy Ombudsman Backs Google's $10 Million Purchase of Spirit Data
Spirit Airlines' privacy ombudsman Lucy Thomson recommends approving Google's $10 million data purchase. Passenger databases are excluded from the sale; the rest is…
VK files suit in EU court challenging sanctions imposed in summer 2026
VK has asked the EU court to challenge the sanctions imposed in summer 2026. The scope of the restrictions and the arguments in the suit have not yet been disclosed.
Insta360 Capitalizes on DJI's U.S. Ban and Goes After American Creators
DJI controls more than 70% of the global consumer drone market but is being squeezed out of the U.S. Insta360 is moving into the gap with its Antigravity brand.
SpaceX Demands Orbital Coordination After Dangerous Starlink Satellite Close Calls
MLCommons launches AILuminate: how to put a price tag on AI risk
AWS Publishes Blueprint for Sharing a Single HyperPod EKS Cluster Across Teams
AI Act Fines Reach 7% of Revenue: Time to Build Compliance Into the ML Pipeline
Bengio urges frontier lab employees to leave for the sake of AI safety
Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, in a column for Transformer, urges those who put safety above all else to leave the leading AI companies and work on safe AI…
Moscow to Get 200 Robotaxis by the End of 2026, Half of Them Open to All Passengers
Deputy Transport Minister Vladimir Poteshkin set a target of about 200 robotaxis in Moscow by the end of 2026, with 100 of them open to ordinary passengers.
OPMD Teaches Student LLMs Not Just the Teacher's Answers, but Its Internal Computations
Florida Prosecutor Investigates OpenAI: ChatGPT May Have Helped Plan University Shooting
Anthropic in "legal limbo": two US courts cannot agree on the military's right to use Claude
Pentagon Told Anthropic of "Near Agreement" — a Week Before Trump's Breakup Announcement
Families of Tumbler Ridge shooting victims sue OpenAI for concealing shooter's ChatGPT exchanges
OpenAI 'considered' notifying police about the dangerous conversations of the Tumbler Ridge shooter but stayed silent for its IPO—the company now faces lawsuits…
Researchers: Deepfakes of Trump and Fake Military Women Became Propaganda Weapons
Political deepfakes are no longer limited to videos of celebrities: AI avatars in military uniforms gather audiences, generate revenue, and reinforce desired…