Policy
Regulation, litigation and the rules forming around AI.
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Open Weights vs Closed Models: What “Open” Actually Means in AI
An open-weights model hands you the trained file to run yourself; a closed model only lets you use it through someone else’s…
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Anthropic gives METR staff badges and the right to publish without a veto
Six METR staff now have Anthropic hardware, desks and internal tools, and can publish their risk assessments without Anthropic holding a veto.
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Teachers Pay Teachers will ban AI-generated teaching resources
The teaching marketplace says it will remove AI-made materials after reports of low-quality listings sold to teachers.
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Global financial regulators finalise 12 sound practices for AI use by banks and insurers
The Financial Stability Board published non-binding sound practices on AI governance and risk for financial firms.
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Hong Kong’s monetary authority plans a register of bank AI agents under its ART framework
The HKMA launched its ART framework and said more than 60% of use cases in its GenAI sandbox explored agentic AI.
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Anthropic publishes election usage numbers ahead of the US midterms
Anthropic says about 0.51% of US Claude conversations in a late-September sample concerned elections or voting, and roughly 0.01% asked who to…
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Nvidia puts $250m of UK compute behind agentic safety research
Nvidia will donate compute it values at $250 million over five years to British research on agentic AI safety, with the provider…
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YouTube Music labels songs as fully, partly or not made with generative AI
YouTube Music now shows whether a track used generative AI, and AI use alone will not stop a track earning money.
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UK medicines regulator plans an AI centre and faster trial approvals in its 2030 strategy
The MHRA’s 2030 strategy includes a Centre for AI and Digital Health and AI tools to check trial plans and spot safety…
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India opens bidding for up to 10,000 AI compute units
India’s latest compute tender asks for up to 10,000 accelerators in single-site clusters inside the country, with bids due on 29 October.
