Policy
Regulation, litigation and the rules forming around AI.
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Anthropic opens a Singapore office and signs a safety MOU with MDDI
Anthropic’s fifth Asia-Pacific office comes with a government MOU on evaluation and incident response, plus a usage figure that explains why Singapore…
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Huawei and Qualcomm sign a broad patent cross-licence covering AI
The two companies have cross-licensed their portfolios across 5G, compute, AI and networking, and Qualcomm is buying some of Huawei’s US patents,…
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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.
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Nadella argues frontier models should be treated as insider risks
Microsoft’s chief executive published a design argument at the weekend for governing frontier models the way enterprises govern powerful insiders, including an…
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EU autonomous vehicle alliance puts four technology roadmaps to industry in Paris
The European Commission has set out four technology roadmaps for connected and autonomous vehicles, with no money attached and its own warning…
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Anthropic puts $150m behind US federal science projects
Anthropic has committed $150 million over three years to the US Genesis Mission, without saying how much of it is cash rather…
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Anthropic’s rewritten usage policy adds rules for Claude driving machinery
Anthropic’s 2026 usage policy update, effective 12 November, bans arming drones and autonomous vehicles and sets conditions for letting Claude control hardware…
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Anthropic opens a cyber defence programme for grids and open source
Anthropic has launched a cyber defence effort with eleven named founding partners for operational technology, plus free automated security scans for open-source…
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OpenAI reports its first Category 5 influence operation
OpenAI has banned two covert influence operations that used ChatGPT to run fake organisations, and rated the Russian one Category 5 on…
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Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, a German-first open-weight model, and writes down its data screening
Kolibri is a 78 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model built for German, released under Apache 2.0, with a technical report that documents how…