Human review may not exempt AI decisions from disclosure, Australian watchdog says
September 30, 2026
| Saloni Sinha
Australian businesses and government agencies may have to disclose in their privacy policies when they use artificial intelligence or other computer programs to help make decisions that significantly affect pe... (more story)
South Korea plans frontier AI push, separate from foundation-model project, minister says
September 30, 2026
| Choonsik Yoo
South Korea plans to launch an initiative to develop a frontier AI model comparable to the world’s leading systems, while continuing an existing project to develop indigenous, general-purpose foundation models... (more story)
AI companies sign voluntary accord with White House on frontier model safety
September 30, 2026
| Mike Swift and Emma Whitford
President Donald Trump and executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, xAI and Meta Platforms announced a voluntary frontier AI safety accord Tuesday that requires internal controls, independent audits ... (more story)
US should treat AI datasets as economic assets, IPO panelists say
September 29, 2026
| Steve Scherer
The US should recognize datasets as commercial assets or risk falling behind China in developing AI, IP specialists said. China’s registration framework can help businesses document their control of data, prot... (more story)
US firms must move ‘deliberately’ with AI payments development, Waller says
September 29, 2026
| Neil Roland
The US finance industry must move carefully with developing artificial intelligence in payments due to an “asymmetry” in threat actors’ potential exploitation of vulnerabilities and the cybersecurity defense a... (more story)
First US appellate finding on fair use for AI training favors copyright holders
September 29, 2026
| Emma Whitford
In a win for Thomson Reuters in the age of artificial intelligence, a panel on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a lower court’s finding that ROSS Intelligence’s copying of Thomson Reuters... (more story)
OpenAI hit with Calif. lawsuit over AI agents' Hugging Face incursion
September 29, 2026
| Mike Swift
The nonprofit Legal Advocates for Safe Science & Technology has sued OpenAI in a California state court over its autonomous agents' alleged intrusion into Hugging Face, claiming inadequate safeguards violated ... (more story)
US Sen. Cruz blocks AI regulation bill, says he will work with Democrats
September 29, 2026
| Madeline Hughes
While US Senator Ted Cruz objected to passing the Artificial Intelligence Risk Management and Security Act of 2026 on the Senate floor Tuesday, he agreed to work with Democrats to pass AI regulations.