The CNIL, France’s digital regulator, is making alignment between the EU AI Act and the GDPR a top priority as the bloc’s AI rules take effect, a senior official said. In an interview with MLex, Nacera Bekhat,... (more story)

Japan is trying to keep one of the world’s most permissive AI copyright rules intact while making opaque AI use harder to defend. Its 2026 intellectual property strategy keeps AI training largely protected, bu... (more story)

US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said his agency is poised for a surge in data privacy enforcement cases in the second half of this year. Speaking with MLex from his office in the agency's ... (more story)

Canada's proposed Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, also known as Bill C-26, would transform the country's privacy enforcement landscape, replacing key parts of its current private-sector privacy law w... (more story)

The UK's planned ban on social media platforms offering services to under-16s is the headline outcome of the government's recent child safety consultation. But accompanying documents tease a wider package of m... (more story)

The abrupt suspension of Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models is reigniting sovereign AI discussions around the globe, delivering a stark warning in India, Europe and elsewhere that reliance on foreign tech... (more story)

Algorithmic collusion and anticompetitive conduct involving AI will be a key area of enforcement for the US Department of Justice over the next decade, and companies using these tools should be mindful of the ... (more story)

Governors are increasingly abandoning state policies aimed at attracting new data centers powering the artificial intelligence industry as grassroots opposition to development builds across the US. In Texas, I... (more story)