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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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Press Gazette says one AI-assisted reporter produced at least 52 Quartz articles on 8 October, as the business-news brand leans heavily on AI in its website publishing. The report raises a wider question for readers: when AI helps produce news at this scale, what does meaningful human editorial…
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OpenAI says it banned Russian and Iranian accounts that used ChatGPT in influence campaigns across several countries. NPR’s account describes a striking split: Russian operatives mostly used the chatbot to report their work to superiors, while Iranian operatives used it to help produce material for publication.
Watch Desk
The UK’s £500m Sovereign AI fund is being measured against an industry request for at least £20bn over five years. The comparison is not like-for-like, but it puts a sharp question on the table: how much money and leverage will it take to build AI businesses that stay…
AWS AI Watch
UOB and Amazon Web Services have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore hybrid cloud and AI projects for banking across five ASEAN markets. The plan puts data residency and regulatory controls alongside customer-facing ideas such as conversational banking, but it is an exploration, not a confirmed rollout.
Watch Desk
Open-weight models have given developers more freedom to run and adapt AI systems, but access to weights is not the same as access to training data, unrestricted terms or frontier-scale computing. A new overview traces how Llama, Mistral and DeepSeek helped broaden the field, while leaving important advantages…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic is setting up a programme to brief presidential candidates from both parties on AI policy ahead of the 2028 election, while building an in-house team to steer the company’s political work. It is a notable expansion of how a frontier AI company plans to engage with the…
OpenAI Watch
USA Today Co and several newspapers it owns have sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court, alleging their copyrighted content was used to train its large language models. The case puts another major news publisher’s challenge to AI training practices before a judge, though the allegations are not findings…
Watch Desk
A ThoughtWorks survey of 3,200 CIOs finds that 88% believe AI adoption in their organisations is moving faster than governance can adapt. The sharper concern is the gap between who makes AI decisions and who is held accountable when things go wrong.
Hugging Face Watch
A Hugging Face community author says its ML Intern agent helped turn a series of detailed prompts into six public models, including a 0.8B image-prompt rewriter that runs on a CPU and specialist image tools. The examples show what a developer can build with the agent, and what…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI says it banned ChatGPT accounts after they were used to help place AI-assisted articles under fake journalists’ names in multiple media outlets, CNN reports. The account describes a concrete attempt to use AI for influence, though who commissioned it and whether they were linked to Iran’s government…
Watch Desk
Voices CTO Dheeraj Jalali argues that the next gains in AI speech will come from better-targeted training data, not simply more audio. His case is useful, but it comes from a company that sells the licensed recordings it recommends.
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Basecompute’s Hugging Face announcement describes Superfluid as an Apache-2.0 local LLM server with interactive-request prioritisation, session recovery, multiple API and runtime options, and encrypted multi-device inference.
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Google has opened its SynthID checker to the public, alongside a prompt-based game builder and an offline meeting-notes app for Mac. The trio covers three very different AI chores: checking media, making games and taking notes without sending the work to the cloud.
Geoffrey Hinton Watch
Geoffrey Hinton says AI models should face safety checks before release, comparing the idea to the US Food and Drug Administration’s role in approving drugs. His account of a recent senators’ briefing also points to a tougher question: can public pressure move faster than legislation?
Watch Desk
Some influencers are promoting cheaper camera- and AI-equipped glasses as a way to record people without an obvious warning light, Futurism reports. The pitch turns a privacy safeguard into a selling point, though the article says some claims about the glasses’ lights are disputed.
Watch Desk
Checks of summaries generated by an AI tool used in UK asylum cases found that 45 of 203 primary reviews failed accuracy standards, according to The Independent. The figures raise a serious question about how errors are caught when AI is used to support decisions with profound consequences…
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Physical AI is moving beyond prototypes, yet customer readiness is the weakest link in its progress towards wider deployment. A survey of 4,420 technology startups found that only 26% of physical-AI builders consider their local market ready to deploy the technology, according to The AI Insider’s account of…
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Physical AI is attracting a surge of investment as AI moves from screens into robots, drones and industrial machines. Investor Anton Alikov argues that the opportunity comes with a less fashionable constraint: hardware, testing and factory integration move at the speed of the physical world, not a software…
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Behavox has committed $8 million to secure dedicated GPU capacity from UK cloud provider Civo, for processing regulated customers’ data in the UK. The deal gives financial institutions another option for keeping sensitive data within the country while running AI models, though it is not evidence of a…
Watch Desk
Ten major AI developers have changed, or promised to change, how they handle personal data after scrutiny by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The regulator is also examining whether autonomous AI agents can follow the rules when they act with less human supervision.
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Mark Zuckerberg helped shape a voluntary AI safety accord signed by technology executives at the White House, CNN reports. The episode puts a practical question at the centre of AI policy: who gets to write the rules when the rules are voluntary?
