Policy: latest AI news

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2 Nov WME tells the court in the New York Times case against OpenAI that AI use of creative work should be licensed
2 Nov Turkey opens antitrust probe into Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode and imposes interim measures for news publishers
2 Nov 29 NHS trusts listed as benefiting from Palantir's AI data platform tell the Guardian they are not using it
2 Nov Delaware's justice department subpoenas OpenAI for safety and governance records after the Hugging Face break-in
2 Nov Milei pitches Argentina's Patagonia as a regulation-free haven for AI data centres
2 Nov German AI taskforce warns the window to catch the US and China 'is closing' and sets 2030 adoption targets
2 Nov UK and Germany plan to jointly test, develop and field AI in their armed forces, Streeting writes
2 Nov Correction: South Korea's sovereign AI model allocation is 4.6 trillion won, not 4.7 trillion
2 Nov China's State Council issues an 18-point plan to shield workers from AI job losses
2 Nov OpenAI plans a policy and PR campaign to launch right after the US midterm elections, Axios reports
2 Nov Hong Kong's central bank launches Project SAGE to set rules for AI agents in finance
2 Nov Eight in ten South Korean judges have seen AI-generated fake precedents cited in court, Supreme Court survey finds
2 Nov India proposes an AI training framework in which the model travels to the data
2 Nov South Korea opens a three-day conference on standards and patents for physical and agentic AI
2 Nov India's DSCI says liability for agentic AI should be traced across the value chain, not pinned on one party
1 Nov India's telecom regulator TRAI proposes draft rules for responsible AI use in telecom networks
1 Nov Environmental groups warn California's Prop 45 fast-track for 'essential' projects could let data centres skip scrutiny
1 Nov China opens what it calls its first open-source ecosystem hall in Wuzhen ahead of the World Internet Conference
1 Nov Japan plans approval-based security screening for data centres and cloud services, Nikkei reports
1 Nov Nigerian rights group SERAP asks Tinubu to order a data-protection probe of AI-generated photos in the voter register
1 Nov Indonesia's deputy digital minister urges stronger AI safeguards in finance and healthcare as a roadmap is drafted
1 Nov South Korea plans to ease AI data centre criteria under its special act, cutting the AI power threshold to 5 MW
1 Nov South Korea's 2027 budget proposal includes no funding for the AI clusters the government plans to designate
1 Nov Dubai's transport authority launches AI strategy aiming to move half its operations and services to agentic AI
1 Nov Scottish minister Alyn Smith says he would not rule out a national wealth fund paid for by AI data centres
1 Nov MIT drops plan to add AI analysis to its 4,600 campus cameras after faculty and student objections
1 Nov South Korea gives civil servants AI web search on its closed network and will pilot AI report drafting in December
1 Nov South Korea names ex-Kakao executive Kim Se-woong to head its in-house National AI Service Innovation Task Force
1 Nov AFP: researchers find AI chatbots giving US voters wrong election information two days before the midterms
1 Nov South Korea's financial regulators order firms to file anti-hacking plans amid suspected AI-agent attacks
31 Oct Bengio urges Korea to join Canada and Europe on safe frontier AI research to protect sovereignty
31 Oct Power bills and data-centre deals become a US midterm issue as home electricity prices rise more than 10% since 2024
31 Oct Grok API text will carry an invisible watermark by default from 7 November, SpaceXSI docs say
31 Oct Anthropic gives $900,000 to California Democratic committees days before the election
31 Oct OpenAI promises Daybreak Blue users a separate training opt-out after saying their sessions would train models
31 Oct New York State Bar adopts ethics guidelines for lawyers' use of AI, including agentic tools
31 Oct Quad foreign ministers pledge over $85 million to expand access to trusted AI across the Indo-Pacific
31 Oct AI industry super PAC Leading the Future spent $4.1 million in October despite nearly $24 million cash on hand
31 Oct US Army in Europe looks to AI to process more than 1,500 potential targets a day, with humans making the final call
31 Oct Government-funded Chinese study warns AI could turn social credit ratings into a large-scale surveillance tool
31 Oct Authors say ex-Meta researcher testified he torrented and distributed the Books3 pirated-books dataset
31 Oct Wikimedia, news publishers and Public Knowledge file amicus briefs as NYT v. OpenAI reaches summary judgment
31 Oct Federal court denies xAI's motion to dismiss NAACP Clean Air Act suit over turbines powering its Colossus 2 data centre
31 Oct France's CNC will deny film, TV and video game subsidies to works without human authors in key creative roles
30 Oct UK expands Google DeepMind's PlanAssist planning tool to 12 more councils for a 12-month trial
30 Oct Bankruptcy judge lets Character.AI proceed with an asset sale over objections from 41 states
30 Oct Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic back a shared robots.txt signal for opting out of AI training
30 Oct Michigan's attorney general seeks a rehearing of DTE's 20-year power contracts for Google's data centre near Detroit
30 Oct ECB's Philip Lane presents a simulation in which an AI productivity shock in IT lifts euro-area output 3.8% by 2030
30 Oct Artists in Albanese's own electorate oppose Australian proposal to let AI firms train on their work unless they opt out
30 Oct India's telecom regulator proposes mandatory reporting of serious AI incidents by operators
30 Oct India's TRAI proposes board-approved AI policies and mandatory serious-incident reporting for telecom operators
30 Oct India's telecom regulator proposes board-approved AI policies and mandatory reporting of serious AI incidents by telcos
30 Oct India unveils DEPA for AI Training, a framework to train models on hospital and bank data without moving it
30 Oct Trump says the US will check 'very closely' a report that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese spy plot
30 Oct Pope Leo XIV says AI systems are tools, not persons, and calls for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons
30 Oct Pope Leo XIV says decisions on life, freedom and the use of force must never be delegated to AI
30 Oct UK CMA opens competition investigation into Meta terms that would let it use publishers' content for AI
30 Oct Opposition to AI data centres becomes a central issue in Maine's Senate race, The Verge reports
30 Oct Nigeria's electoral commission says registration officers added suspected AI-generated photos to the voter register
30 Oct NPR finds ChatGPT citing sites posing as local news that promote Democratic House candidates
30 Oct Japan asks Anthropic and OpenAI for wider access to advanced cybersecurity models, Nikkei reports
30 Oct Anthropic confirms it steers Claude Code away from recreating specific existing video games
29 Oct Kim Jong Un calls for faster military use of AI and drones at a North Korean weapons exhibition
29 Oct Dartmouth provost Santiago Schnell resigns after a committee finds undisclosed AI use in a paper and an op-ed
29 Oct Reddit plans logged-in-only pilot outside the US, citing scrapers, and keeps licensing data to AI firms
29 Oct German ministers float a tax on AI revenues to fund labour-market change, but the coalition has no concrete plan
29 Oct Five French publisher groups file an EU antitrust complaint over Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode
29 Oct UK government survey finds 32% of businesses used AI in 2026, double the 16% of 2025
29 Oct U.S. intelligence concluded a Megaspeed executive close to Jensen Huang passed information to Beijing, NYT reports
29 Oct House Democrats introduce a resolution opposing federal bailouts if an AI bubble bursts
29 Oct Senators Wyden and Markey ask Meta whether contractors saw intimate AI-glasses footage and if it trained AI models
29 Oct Raskin and Garcia ask the White House to preserve Trump's AI chatbot conversations as presidential records
29 Oct House Democrats introduce a nonbinding resolution opposing federal bailouts of AI companies
29 Oct Dutch data protection authority warns debt collectors that AI scoring of debtors risks errors and discrimination
29 Oct Data Security Council of India publishes guidance on who is liable when agentic AI causes harm
29 Oct US Rep. Vindman introduces Data Center Oversight Act requiring disclosure of ownership, energy and water use
28 Oct Trump proclamation finds robotics and industrial machinery imports threaten US national security, without new tariffs
28 Oct US Justice Department asks how Nvidia's $12.93 billion Hugging Face deal would affect AI competition, Reuters reports
28 Oct Anthropic reportedly extends Claude's text watermark to Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6 and Mythos 5 from 3 November