Embodied AI tests limits of current governance frameworks
May 25, 2026
| James Konstantin Galvez
Autonomous AI systems are rapidly moving beyond software into robots, vehicles and critical infrastructure, creating governance risks that existing AI frameworks were never designed to manage. Discussions at a... (more story)
SpaceX US securities filing reveals xAI details, insight into AI regulatory risks
May 21, 2026
| Mike Swift
From space-based AI data centers to unvarnished disclosures about a wide spectrum of legal and regulatory risk around xAI's Grok chatbot, the S-1 securities filing by SpaceX in advance of its initial public st... (more story)
Chatbot bills passed by US states diverge along political lines
May 20, 2026
| Amy Miller
US states are rushing to establish new guardrails for artificial intelligence-powered chatbots that imitate human relationships, but their approaches to regulating the technology are diverging along political ... (more story)
Xi, Trump sidestep chip curbs while reviving AI security talks
May 20, 2026
| MLex Staff
Discussion of chip export controls was notably absent from the recent Trump-Xi summit, reflecting in part Beijing’s reduced urgency to secure relief from US curbs as China accelerates its push for technologica... (more story)
Xi-Trump summit shows a rivalry being managed, not resolved
May 20, 2026
| MLex Staff
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s question to Donald Trump about whether the US and China can escape the “Thucydides Trap” framed a summit that showed the two powers are learning to manage competition rather than... (more story)
US OpenAI juror questions on Musk, Altman reveal AI concerns
May 19, 2026
| Mike Swift
Handwritten notes sent out by the nine jurors who handed Elon Musk a defeat Monday — when they dismissed his claims that OpenAI and two of its co-founders breached his charitable trust on grounds that Musk wai... (more story)
Following OpenAI win over Musk, doubts remain about US antitrust claims
May 18, 2026
| Mike Swift
After a federal jury in California handed down a unanimous verdict saying Elon Musk's charitable breach claims against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman were barred by the statute of limitations, the attention of ... (more story)
Jurors in Musk-OpenAI trial in US face tough call on statute of limitations
May 15, 2026
| Mike Swift
Despite all the testimony about greed and power that a jury in Oakland, California, heard over the last three weeks during a trial on Elon Musk's claims that OpenAI breached his charitable trust through its pa... (more story)