Jurisdictional lines at heart of US data center hookup talks
May 29, 2026
| Emma Whitford
US state utility regulators are awaiting federal guidance that could standardize how energy-intensive artificial intelligence data centers hook up to the electric grid. The process, which kicked off last fall,... (more story)
UK banks, sector supervisors eye AI cyber risks amid resistance to regulate
May 29, 2026
| Sofia Gerace, Fanny Roux and Patricia Figueiredo
UK financial regulators and banks are grappling with how to respond to potential cyber risks posed by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models such as Open AI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s forthcoming ... (more story)
Singapore AI sandbox highlights shift toward deployment-level governance
May 27, 2026
| James Konstantin Galvez
Enterprise AI governance is increasingly shifting away from abstract model risks toward operational oversight of how autonomous AI systems behave once deployed in the real world. That shift was evident in the ... (more story)
US judges stay true to ‘substantial similarity’ test in weighing AI output claims
May 26, 2026
| Emma Whitford
US judges are continuing to find that copyright owners must plausibly allege substantial similarity in order to sustain claims of derivative artificial intelligence outputs. This is a welcome trend for defenda... (more story)
Push for UK social media ban risks being seen as political lifeline for Starmer
May 26, 2026
| Patricia Figueiredo
UK pressure for social media restrictions for under-16s has intensified ahead of a government consultation on children’s online safety closing on Tuesday. A leadership crisis in the ruling Labour party has led... (more story)
AI assurance emerges as the operational backbone of AI governance
May 26, 2026
| James Konstantin Galvez
AI assurance is increasingly emerging as the operational layer through which governments may ultimately govern autonomous AI systems, as regulators confront the limitations of static compliance frameworks buil... (more story)
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)