Policy
Regulation, litigation and the rules forming around AI.
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Google pauses one part of its open-source bug bounty, not all of it
Google has temporarily stopped taking product vulnerability reports for its open-source bug bounty, blaming a rise in automated submissions, though supply chain…
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UK annual reports name AI as a risk far more often than they explain it
A study of 9,821 annual reports from 1,362 UK listed companies finds AI risk mentions rose from 2.8% to 41.2% between 2020…
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California signs thirteen AI bills, including a bar on AI-only firings
Governor Newsom has signed thirteen AI bills covering employment, workplace surveillance, healthcare and transparency, with SB 947 stopping employers from relying on…
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Brussels names ten finalists for its Apply AI Startup Award
The European Commission has published the ten-company shortlist for its Apply AI Startup Award, with three winners to be picked after a…
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AWS pledges $1bn to data centre communities and says it has dropped government NDAs
Amazon Web Services has committed $1 billion over five years to American communities hosting its data centres and says it no longer…
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Seventeen countries sign a Kyoto declaration on using AI in science
Seventeen governments have endorsed the Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science, promising researchers wider access to AI tools, data and…
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Trump announces a Super Intelligence Force, with no charter published yet
President Trump used a Truth Social post on Sunday to announce a federal Super Intelligence Force, but no executive order, charter or…
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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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Brussels asks whether EU copyright law needs strengthening for AI
The European Commission has opened a consultation on the use of copyright-protected content in AI, with responses due by 3 November.
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OpenAI says it disrupted a campaign to extract its models’ hidden reasoning
OpenAI has attributed a core cluster of an adversarial distillation campaign to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the Chinese lab behind Kimi.