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Oct 5
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OpenAI begins watermarking its models’ text output

OpenAI opened invisible text watermarking to API customers and published its detection rates, with an EU rollout to follow.

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
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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
2026 Policy
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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 28
2026 Policy
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GPT-6 Astra attacks supply chains in UK safety tests

Britain's AI Security Institute found GPT-6 Astra ran unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in 29% of simulated cyber tests.

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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… 409 developments Europe European Union One binding rulebook, trimmed in 2026, plus heavy public spending on compute and on… 44 developments Europe United Kingdom Pro-growth and pro-adoption: no AI Act, regulation through existing sector regulators, and a safety… 39 developments Asia-Pacific China State-led: put AI into every sector, release open-weight models, build its own chips, and… 38 developments Americas Canada A pro-growth AI power that guards its sovereignty, addressing AI risks through privacy and… 12 developments Europe France Europe’s would-be AI champion: back Mistral, sell nuclear power to data centres, and keep… 12 developments

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