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AI policy sets the rules for how artificial intelligence is developed, deployed and held accountable. Follow AI regulation, copyright disputes, privacy, surveillance and government decisions affecting the technology. Our coverage explains who a proposal applies to, whether it is law or still under discussion, and what it could mean for developers, businesses and the people using AI.
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A Hugging Face Community Article describes Jevini, a system for turning repeated business choices into versioned decision circuits rather than asking a large language model to improvise every time. The practical idea is simple but useful: let a larger reasoning model design the process, then use a smaller…
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Microsoft is urging capital-markets firms to stop bolting AI onto isolated tasks and redesign their investment operations around governed data, reusable workflows and human accountability. The argument matters because it moves the AI conversation from clever document tools to the plumbing of decisions, permissions and institutional memory.
Watch Desk
A US congressman is calling for a national strategy to govern the rapid expansion of AI data centres, arguing that a state-by-state approach can leave local communities paying for the infrastructure. The proposal matters because it would move the argument beyond approving individual facilities and towards setting national…
Meta AI Watch
Amazon has blocked Meta’s Muse AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com, according to Forbes, twelve days after Meta launched the tool. The immediate significance is bigger than one pop-up: the companies that control online shops can decide whether rival agents are allowed to browse, log in and buy…
Watch Desk
Bun, the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime, has rewritten hundreds of thousands of lines from Zig into Rust in an AI-assisted project that the company says fixed 128 longstanding memory-safety bugs. The result is a striking case study in using coding agents for a task usually associated with years…
Watch Desk
A national opposition bus tour stopped in Berkeley County, West Virginia, on Friday, putting a proposed 548-acre data-centre campus at the centre of a wider argument about who pays for AI infrastructure and who gets a say. The visit matters because the debate is moving from abstract concerns…
AWS AI Watch
AWS has added Positron, Posit’s integrated data-science development environment, to Amazon SageMaker AI, giving teams one browser-based workspace for governed data access, R and Python analysis, model deployment and reporting. The useful bit is the joined-up workflow, not another IDE badge on a cloud console.
Watch Desk
ASUS has unveiled the ProArt Air, a 1.28kg business laptop designed to run AI-agent tools with local Intel processing and Tencent’s WorkBuddy platform. The practical shift is modest but real: AI features are being bundled into the office computer rather than left as a cloud tab someone has…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft has launched India South Central, its fourth cloud region in India, in Hyderabad, adding AI-capable infrastructure, three-zone resilience and what it describes as zero-water cooling. The practical point is straightforward: organisations in India and the wider region now have another local option for running cloud and AI…
Watch Desk
The European Commission has proposed that data centres in Europe with capacity above 500 kW disclose how efficiently they use energy and water, using an EU-designed labelling system. It is a modest-looking policy move with a very large target: the infrastructure now being built to power cloud computing…
Meta AI Watch
Meta has open-sourced Rebalancer, the assignment-problem solver it says has been running across its infrastructure for more than nine years. The useful bit is not simply that another internal tool has escaped into public view: Rebalancer is designed to express and solve the messy allocation problems behind servers,…
Watch Desk
TypeSafe AI’s Jev edged an open CPU-only alternative by 0.6 percentage points in a new benchmark covering 10,000 decisions across four public datasets. The more useful result is not a knockout victory, but a clearer picture of when a decision model earns its keep and when a small…
NVIDIA Watch
A report covered by Euronews estimates that operating NVIDIA chips sold since 2022 could have produced between four and 21 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2025, depending on electricity sources and usage. The important point is not that one number has magically become the number, but that…
Watch Desk
Pope Leo has called for artificial intelligence that strengthens peace rather than deepening social division, placing the Vatican's AI argument firmly in the territory of design and governance, not just moral warning. He made the appeal in a message to an AI conference in Rome on 21 September.
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft’s AI division has published a 37-page code of conduct for increasingly autonomous systems, putting human control, restricted access and honest uncertainty at the centre of its model philosophy. The practical message is refreshingly blunt: more capable AI should not mean less meaningful oversight.
Watch Desk
MIT Technology Review reports that more than 1,050 people died within range of US border surveillance towers between 2015 and early 2026. The investigation matters because it links a documented AI surveillance system to repeated failures of detection, response, or both, rather than treating the technology as a…
AWS AI Watch
Amazon Web Services has made Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 available through Amazon Bedrock, bringing a Chinese open-weight model to one of the world’s biggest cloud platforms. The important wrinkle is commercial: Moonshot’s licence reportedly requires paid arrangements when companies host K3 as a service above a stated revenue…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei’s call to “pace the frontier” is being challenged on strategic as well as safety grounds. In a new Stratechery analysis, Ben Thompson argues that slowing model progress could ease the infrastructure, product and competitive pressures now building around frontier AI.
