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EU lawmakers aim to lever tech sovereignty into digital simplification package August 21, 2026 | Masha Borak

EU lawmakers want the proposed Digital Omnibus to advance Europe's technological sovereignty by reducing reliance on non-EU AI and data-processing providers. Amendments they have lodged broaden a package origi... (more story)

Ex-Google engineer acquitted of economic espionage after US jury conviction August 20, 2026 | Amy Miller

Former Google engineer Linwei Ding has been acquitted on seven counts of economic-espionage after US District Judge Vince Chhabria said prosecutors failed prove that he intended to benefit the Chinese governme... (more story)

China MIIT think tank plans AI ethics-review center as oversight expands August 20, 2026 | MLex Staff

A research arm of China’s top industry regulator is preparing to establish a technology ethics service center that will conduct artificial-intelligence ethics reviews and advise companies, as Beijing moves to ... (more story)

US NIST urges companies to fight AI risks with AI August 19, 2026 | Amy Miller

As AI agents increasingly create new cybersecurity risks, companies are turning to AI as a defense. Now NIST has released a draft guide showing companies how they can use generative AI to assess and improve th... (more story)

Naver's pre-ChatGPT AI disclosures disputed in South Korean copyright trial August 19, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo

Naver told a South Korean court on Tuesday that it had informed the country's three major broadcasters in 2018 and 2020 of its plans to use their news content to develop artificial intelligence models, as the ... (more story)

UK judge says AI will decide cases but warns Australia on 'machine-made' justice August 19, 2026 | Saloni Sinha

While lawyers and judges have no choice but to “wholeheartedly” embrace artificial intelligence, they must resist allowing machines to make autonomous judicial decisions without the fully informed consent of t... (more story)

US federal, state officials fighting AI cyber threats with existing laws August 18, 2026 | Amy Miller

As a comprehensive national legal framework remains elusive, state and federal officials are increasingly using existing laws and regulatory powers to police high-risk AI behavior, including AI-driven cyberatt... (more story)

OpenAI launches default ChatGPT for teens, as legal scrutiny mounts August 18, 2026 | Mike Swift

OpenAI on Tuesday is launching ChatGPT for Teens for users aged 13–17, with default safeguards blocking sexual and dangerous content, break reminders, quiet hours, privacy warnings, parental alerts, and guided... (more story)

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US lawmakers push for AI data center transparency with limited success August 21, 2026 | Amy Miller

Amid an AI-fueled boom in data center construction, lawmakers in more than a dozen US states introduced legislation to prohibit state agencies and local governments from entering into nondisclosure agreements ... (more story)

UK privacy regulator eyes bigger AI role with statutory code, sandbox August 21, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

The UK privacy regulator is preparing a statutory code on AI and automated decision-making, while scoping research on AI’s impact on children that MLex understands will inform the code. The Information Commiss... (more story)

India lets AI into patent examination — but who's really deciding? August 21, 2026 | Freny Patel

India's Patent Office is putting formal rules around the use of artificial intelligence across patent examination while drawing a line against allowing AI to replace examiner judgment. The safeguards look robu... (more story)

AI changes the conversation around California’s wiretap law August 21, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo

An early wiretapping ruling against Otter.ai offers clues—and exposes complications—for courts considering similar privacy claims against ChatGPT and Grok.

EU’s cookie-banner overhaul stalls amid competing interests August 18, 2026 | Matthew Newman

The EU's latest attempt to reduce cookie banners has stalled as lawmakers struggle to balance consumers' demands for fewer consent requests, publishers' reliance on advertising revenue, and privacy advocates' ... (more story)

Auditing pitch sparks US debate about how to hold AI companies accountable August 12, 2026 | Emma Whitford

US state and federal lawmakers are pitching third-party auditors to help assess the risk posed by advanced artificial intelligence models, sparking a debate about how to keep companies in check in a nascent re... (more story)

India bets on human oversight to keep AI patent examination in check August 12, 2026 | Freny Patel

India's Patent Office is embracing artificial intelligence to speed patent examination while reserving decisions for human officers, but rigorous verification could erode the efficiency gains that the technolo... (more story)

Amazon loss in US Perplexity AI case could rewrite rules for AI agents August 11, 2026 | Amy Miller

A US appeals court has made it harder for Amazon and other online platforms to use anti-hacking laws to keep user-deployed AI agents off their websites. The court drew a key distinction between an AI company s... (more story)