China food-delivery giants ease algorithmic strain on riders amid regulatory push
August 13, 2026
| MLex Staff
China’s largest food-delivery platforms are easing some of the algorithmic pressures faced by couriers, as authorities push the sector away from cutthroat competition and toward stronger worker protections. Me... (more story)
South Korea's AI personal-data carve-out faces pushback ahead of expected passage
August 13, 2026
| Jenny Lee
South Korean civic groups making a last-ditch push to stop legislation that would allow companies to use raw, identifiable personal data to train AI systems without consent, as the measure heads toward an expe... (more story)
Reddit, Anthropic clash over whether copyright law bars Calif. scraping suit
August 13, 2026
| Amy Miller
Anthropic told a California judge that Reddit’s data-scraping lawsuit is really a copyright fight in disguise and should be preempted by federal law. Reddit countered that Anthropic did more than scrape users’... (more story)
Manus confirms Meta separation, outlines user-data deletion plan
August 12, 2026
| MLex Staff
Artificial intelligence startup Manus has confirmed it is separating from Meta Platforms and returning to independent operations, nearly four months after Chinese authorities blocked Meta’s acquisition of the ... (more story)
South Korea picks 7 future technologies as growth engines for AI era
August 12, 2026
| Choonsik Yoo
South Korea has identified seven strategic technology fields, including small modular reactors and quantum technology, as future growth engines to be nurtured over the next 10 to 20 years, with most of them di... (more story)
Anthropic’s new watermarking could let AI businesses outsource EU compliance
August 12, 2026
| Masha Borak
Anthropic’s Claude models will mark AI-generated text in compliance with the EU AI Act's transparency rules — a move that could help businesses meet their obligations under the new regulation.
Michigan AG takes aim at OpenAI, Oracle data center deal
August 12, 2026
| Amy Miller
Michigan’s attorney general is taking on OpenAI and Oracle’s $16 billion data center in the state, arguing regulators rushed through a deal that could leave other customers paying the costs. The appeal challen... (more story)
China expands police cybersecurity inspections of data, algorithms under new rules
August 11, 2026
| MLex Staff
China is expanding the scope of police oversight of cyberspace, bringing data processing, personal information and algorithms more explicitly within a security-inspection regime as Beijing updates rules first ... (more story)