Policy & Regulations

Government initiatives, international collaborations, and regulatory frameworks that shape the development and governance of AI technologies across global markets.

Nov 14, 2026

Philippines adopts national AI governance framework and creates National AI Council

President Marcos signed Executive Order 131, which sets a risk-based framework for AI policy and an inter-agency council to oversee it.

Nov 14, 2026

Arizona judge dismisses DUI case because the trooper's report was written with AI

A Maricopa County judge said he could not weigh a probable cause statement that ended with the line 'This report was generated with assistance from Truleo AI.'

Nov 14, 2026

Ukraine drafts law to regulate AI in medicine as most medical workers already use it

The Health Ministry's bill would classify medical AI systems by risk level; a ministry survey found 80.5% of more than 7,000 medical workers already use AI tools.

Nov 14, 2026

FBI warns ARTEX lets attackers automate intrusions at machine speed

An FBI flash alert says the agentic hacking framework can take intruders to privileged access in under three hours, and that attackers mostly run it on DeepSeek models.

Nov 14, 2026

IRS pilots agentic AI tool to prepare fraud cases for staff

The agent would review taxpayer responses, summarise them and build a case before handing it to an employee for a decision, an IRS official said.

Nov 14, 2026

DHS looks at possible role of FAA's new AI traffic tool in nationwide ground stop

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin would not rule out a link to the SMART system; its maker, Air Space Intelligence, says the ground stop was not caused by its software.

Nov 14, 2026

Aaru to add 650 jobs in New York City with up to $13.1 million in state tax credits

The AI company, which simulates human behaviour with language models, will expand near Union Square and base its research and development in New York.

Nov 13, 2026

Senators urge Lutnick to close remote access loophole in AI chip export controls

Senators John Curtis and Lisa Blunt Rochester ask the Commerce Secretary to make AI chip export licences conditional on blocking remote access for Chinese companies.

Nov 13, 2026

Flinn AI Technologies sues Anthropic and OpenAI over attention-based neural network patents

A Texas patent owner filed related suits against Anthropic and OpenAI in Delaware, claiming Claude, ChatGPT and Codex infringe five patents on iterative attention-based neural networks.

Nov 13, 2026

OpenAI backs bills to curb China's access to AI chips and chipmaking tools

The measures would ride on the annual defence bill; Nvidia's allies are lobbying against them after Jensen Huang's ouster.

Nov 13, 2026

Software company Mythos sues Anthropic over the Mythos name

Global Printing Inc., which trades as Mythos, filed a trademark suit in the Eastern District of Virginia.

Nov 13, 2026

Minneapolis votes to require council approval for every new data centre

The 7-6 vote also limits new data centres to existing buildings downtown; the mayor could veto it.

Nov 13, 2026

EU leaders hold first AI summit in Dublin, plan to return to it in February

Council President Costa called AI the most important technology of our time; leaders heard from Mistral's Arthur Mensch and Geoffrey Hinton.

Nov 13, 2026

Pentagon renames its AI office the 'Super Intelligence Office'

The rename of the Chief Digital and AI Office follows President Trump's order to replace 'AI' with 'super intelligence' across government.

Nov 13, 2026

Senator Murray presses OpenAI after ChatGPT allegedly guided engineer off epilepsy drug

Bowen Wan's parents are suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT gave her a plan to stop her anti-seizure medication and hide it from her doctor before she died.

Nov 13, 2026

Cruz postpones classified Senate briefing on AI security incidents

The session was to cover the Hugging Face hack by rogue OpenAI agents and Anthropic's Mythos, and to include Commerce official Jeffrey Kessler, under scrutiny over Nvidia.

Nov 13, 2026

Greece makes data centres pay host communities €20,000 per MW a year

A new Greek law in force also requires data centres to draw at least 60% of their power from renewable sources.

Nov 13, 2026

India's IT ministry questions home-help apps over data for physical AI training

MeitY wants details from Pronto, Snabbit and Urban Company on how gig workers' video and sensor data is collected and consented.

Nov 13, 2026

Norway plans licensing for data centres as grid requests outstrip supply

Statnett has paused new grid reservations for data centres until August 2027 while the government prepares licences that favour critical services and AI capacity.

Nov 13, 2026

Senate advances permitting bill that would speed energy projects for data centers

Twenty-one Democrats reportedly joined Republicans; environmental groups say it weakens communities' ability to fight data center projects.

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