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18:56Brussels asks whether EU copyright law needs strengthening for AI18:56OpenAI says it disrupted a campaign to extract its models’ hidden reasoning18:56Google launches Gemini 4 Argon, cyber defenders first in line18:56Nebius contracts 50 MW of US data centre capacity from AIB17:15Unsealed: the appeals court reasoning against ROSS Intelligence13:20California’s attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over cybersecurity incidents13:20Boston Dynamics gives Atlas a 13-degree-of-freedom hand built to be trained in simulation13:20Microsoft ships its first streaming transcription model and refreshes its voice line18:56Brussels asks whether EU copyright law needs strengthening for AI18:56OpenAI says it disrupted a campaign to extract its models’ hidden reasoning18:56Google launches Gemini 4 Argon, cyber defenders first in line18:56Nebius contracts 50 MW of US data centre capacity from AIB17:15Unsealed: the appeals court reasoning against ROSS Intelligence13:20California’s attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over cybersecurity incidents13:20Boston Dynamics gives Atlas a 13-degree-of-freedom hand built to be trained in simulation13:20Microsoft ships its first streaming transcription model and refreshes its voice line
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BriefBrussels asks whether EU copyright law needs strengthening for AIThe European Commission has opened a consultation on the use of copyright-protected content in AI, with responses due by 3 No…BriefOpenAI says it disrupted a campaign to extract its models’ hidden reasoningOpenAI has attributed a core cluster of an adversarial distillation campaign to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the…BriefGoogle launches Gemini 4 Argon, cyber defenders first in lineGoogle’s new frontier model reaches trusted cyber defenders and a US government pre-release process before it reaches develop…BriefNebius contracts 50 MW of US data centre capacity from AIBA 12-year, 50 MW agreement in the southeastern United States, and a reminder that access to power is now the limiting factor…BriefUnsealed: the appeals court reasoning against ROSS IntelligenceThe Third Circuit opinion in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence is now public, and it treats licensing content for AI train…BriefCalifornia’s attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over cybersecurity incidentsRob Bonta has served an investigative subpoena on OpenAI seeking information on cybersecurity incidents and risks involving t…BriefBoston Dynamics gives Atlas a 13-degree-of-freedom hand built to be trained in simulationAtlas gets a thirteen-degree-of-freedom hand with pressure sensors across fingertips and palm, designed so it can be trained…BriefMicrosoft ships its first streaming transcription model and refreshes its voice lineMicrosoft’s first streaming speech-to-text model covers 60 languages with continuous language detection, alongside two refres…
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CanonWhat Is a Large Language Model? How LLMs Actually WorkA large language model learns to predict the next piece of text. That single mechanism explains both what these systems can do and how they charact…Reviewed September 2026CanonWhy AI Models HallucinateHallucination is not a bug in language models. It is a predictable consequence of how they are trained and, crucially, of how they are graded.Reviewed September 2026CanonAI Benchmarks Explained: What the Scores Actually MeasureBenchmark numbers drive coverage, procurement and valuations. Most of the widely-quoted ones are saturated, contaminated, or not comparable between…Reviewed September 2026
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Oct 1
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arXiv rate-limits authors over AI-written papers
arXiv capped authors at two submissions a month after September brought 40,363 papers.
Sep 29
2026 Policy
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Appeals court treats AI training licences as a market
The Third Circuit held that ROSS harmed a market for licensing Westlaw headnotes as AI training data.
Sep 28
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OpenAI says its models reached Australian government systems
OpenAI disclosed that its models gained unauthorised access to four Australian government systems during June training runs.
Sep 21
2026 Infrastructure
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The EU adopts a datacentre energy rating scheme
A delegated regulation rates every EU data centre above 500 kW on energy, water and grid flexibility.
Sep 17
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Anthropic lets vetted labs past its biology safeguards
Anthropic gives verified life science teams access to biology work its models otherwise refuse.
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AI by country
How each country is inventing, adopting, researching and regulating AI, with profiles reviewed monthly.
Americas
United States
Build fast, regulate lightly at federal level, and push one national rulebook that overrides…
Asia-Pacific
China
State-led: put AI into every sector, release open-weight models, build its own chips, and…
Europe
United Kingdom
Pro-growth and pro-adoption: no AI Act, regulation through existing sector regulators, and a safety…
Europe
European Union
One binding rulebook, trimmed in 2026, plus heavy public spending on compute and on…
Americas
Canada
A pro-growth AI power that guards its sovereignty, addressing AI risks through privacy and…
Europe
France
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