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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.
Lead story
Microsoft has agreed a legally binding set of privacy and safety standards for AI used in schools with the American Federation of Teachers. The deal matters because it puts specific limits around student data and makes compliance subject to third-party audits, rather than leaving every school district to…
Read the report & discussion ↗Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft’s latest responsible-AI thinking is moving beyond what an individual model says and towards the systems, permissions and data surrounding it. A Cloud Wars analysis of the company’s 2026 transparency report identifies five trends and a practical consequence: governance has to continue after an AI tool is switched…
Watch Desk
A new critique of the AI-apocalypse debate argues that spectacular extinction scenarios are crowding out present-day threats with identifiable causes and possible fixes. Ken Klippenstein's sharper point is that both the doom and anti-doom camps have interests tied to how powerful AI is regulated.
Watch Desk
An AI agent that finishes quickly is not necessarily doing useful work. A new analysis on measuring and improving agent latency breaks the wait into model inference, tool calls and orchestration, then argues that reliability matters as much as raw speed.
Meta AI Watch
Meta’s smart glasses can reportedly use their camera to answer some AI queries without illuminating the white capture LED. That matters because people nearby may have no visible indication that the glasses are analysing what the wearer sees, even when no conventional photo or video is being saved.
AWS AI Watch
Ninth Wave has built Compass, an AI onboarding assistant for banks and fintech partners, using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The interesting bit is the architecture: specialist agents handle distinct jobs such as documentation search, field mapping and readiness analysis, while tenant-scoped grounding keeps one bank's information out of another's…
NVIDIA Watch
Nvidia is reportedly limiting Anthropic’s models to less sensitive work as companies push AI providers for firmer guarantees around data use and intellectual property. The dispute shows enterprise AI adoption turning on trust and control, not just capability.
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI is urging Britain to legislate immediately for the handful of companies building the most powerful AI systems. The central argument is unusually specific: regulate frontier labs more heavily, spare less powerful startups the same burden, and give independent oversight some actual teeth.
Watch Desk
Nationwide has moved 15 million customers off legacy core systems and consolidated 19 data stores on Microsoft Azure, creating the foundation for AI tools across the UK building society. The important bit is the order: fix the data plumbing first, then give thousands of employees and emerging agents…
Watch Desk
Normal Technology argues that recent loss-of-control incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic agents should be treated primarily as security failures, not simply as evidence of an abstract alignment crisis. Its central prescription is practical: build security controls around agents now, invest before capabilities outrun them, and make companies answer…
Cohere Watch
Cohere co-founder and CEO Aidan Gomez has challenged proposals that would let a small group of leading AI laboratories coordinate safety standards with an antitrust exemption. His central argument is not that advanced AI needs fewer guardrails, but that the companies being regulated should not also get to…
Watch Desk
A Hugging Face Community Article records 42 more rounds of reader checking that forced a machine-learning investigation to separate real findings from artefacts. The most useful result is methodological: several apparently meaningful patterns changed or disappeared once the author inspected the reachable states, reran borderline contrasts and looked…
Watch Desk
Ivanti says a Claude-based tool used to prepare its enterprise patch guidance repeatedly invented details, including release patterns and product-edition information. The company now keeps every output behind human approval, because a polished vulnerability ranking is not much comfort if the model quietly misplaces the fire exit.
AMD Watch
AMD is now in the neural-rendering conversation, with work on neural lighting published through GPUOpen, according to Digital Foundry. That matters because graphics firms are running into harder power, cost and manufacturing limits: the next big frame-rate gains may come from smarter rendering rather than simply throwing more…
Watch Desk
AI governance needs an emergency upgrade, according to a four-part plan from Axios. Its central proposal is a technically capable regulator that can inspect dangerous models and stop them, rather than another committee producing tasteful PDFs at ordinary government speed.
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI, Microsoft and The New York Times have presented their summary-judgment arguments in the newspaper’s copyright lawsuit. The central question is now sharply drawn: can AI companies train on published journalism as a transformative use, or does that copying help create products that compete with the original work?…
Meta AI Watch
AI-powered smart glasses are becoming a privacy flashpoint in Europe after reports of women and girls being filmed without consent. The devices can record video, translate text and interact with an AI assistant, so the argument is no longer about a quirky gadget. It is about who can…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic says it disrupted five potential cases in which Claude use could have supported biological-weapons development. The crucial detail is that two reportedly involved gain-of-function research on dangerous viruses, showing why prompt filters alone may be a rather flimsy laboratory door.
OpenAI Watch
A Republican-led US Senate subcommittee is investigating OpenAI’s handling of a reported July breach involving Hugging Face, according to Axios. The scrutiny matters because it could shape what frontier AI labs must disclose when agents behave unexpectedly during cyber testing.
