AI fuels demand for trade secret insurance as legal risks grow
July 30, 2026
| Steve Scherer
Trade secret disputes are emerging as a key growth area for the intellectual property insurance market as companies expand their use of artificial intelligence, insurers told MLex.
US Senate, House take different paths for social media as clock runs down
July 30, 2026
| Madeline Hughes
The possible inclusion of a duty-of-care for social media companies will likely prevent US congressional action to craft new regulations this year governing social media, as the Senate and House are working on... (more story)
As EU's AI content labeling regime kicks in, its aim for clarity remains divisive
July 30, 2026
| Masha Borak and Inbar Preiss
On Sunday, new EU requirements kick in under the AI Act for clear labeling of AI-generated or manipulated content. Reaction is divided: Companies say the rules risk sweeping routine AI material into the same l... (more story)
Amid US community pushback on data centers, developers fight back in court
July 29, 2026
| Amy Miller
As communities across the country move to slow the rapid expansion of data centers, developers are increasingly fighting back in court. A growing wave of lawsuits argues that local governments can't reverse co... (more story)
One year in, US security response tests AI Action Plan
July 29, 2026
| Emma Whitford and Bradley Dress
One year after President Donald Trump introduced his AI Action Plan, its emphasis on national security seems prescient, thanks to major leaps in cyber and autonomous capabilities. But the approach the White Ho... (more story)
xAI challenge to California AI training transparency law has national significance
July 29, 2026
| Mike Swift
A federal appeals court is poised to consider xAI's novel challenge to California's Generative AI Training Data Transparency Act, which requires high-level disclosures about model-training datasets. xAI argues... (more story)
US lawsuit against Anthropic highlights hidden value in aging AI patents
July 27, 2026
| Melissa Ritti
A new complaint by the licensing arm of the University of Tennessee accuses Anthropic of infringing two widely cited, yet never previously asserted, neural-network patents. The case could nudge other technolog... (more story)
What will the UK tech ministry's abolition mean for policy and regulation?
July 27, 2026
| Imogen Howse and Patricia Figueiredo
Shutting down the UK government's technology department is expected to slow policymaking and fragment coordination across AI, cybersecurity and online safety, even as AI policy moves closer to the center of go... (more story)