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)
OpenAI ruling shifts India's AI copyright fight from training to outputs
July 27, 2026
| Freny Patel
India's first major AI copyright ruling could reshape generative AI litigation by treating model training as potentially lawful while making AI outputs — not training data — the central battleground for copyright disputes.
Chinese AI spotlights White House policy rift with domestic US implications
July 24, 2026
| Emma Whitford
A Chinese startup’s launch of a highly capable artificial intelligence model is amplifying two potentially conflicting strains of conservative thought — both present in the Trump administration — about how to ... (more story)
AI infrastructure emerges as next frontier for patent licensing
July 24, 2026
| Steve Scherer
Patent owners and licensing executives are looking at the hardware needed for the rapid build-out of AI data centers and devices as the next major licensing market for standard-essential patents.