Nvidia's Hugging Face openness pledge identifies US, EU antitrust fault line
September 03, 2026
| Flavia Fortes and Andrew Boyce
Nvidia’s promise to preserve Hugging Face as an open, hardware-neutral platform anticipates what is likely to become the central issue in the antitrust reviews of its $12.93 billion acquisition: whether the do... (more story)
Trump administration escalates AI training defense with US court statement
September 02, 2026
| Emma Whitford
President Donald Trump’s administration took its most forceful action to date defending artificial intelligence companies’ model training practices, telling a federal judge that a “narrow” fair use analysis wo... (more story)
Utility of US consumer laws in spotlight after AI hacking incident
August 31, 2026
| Emma Whitford
A novel hacking incident this summer involving autonomous OpenAI agents has garnered the attention of US state regulators looking to protect their citizens from rogue technologies absent specifically tailored ... (more story)
US judge’s forceful rejection of Anthropic risk designation not courts' final word
August 28, 2026
| Emma Whitford
It is “undisputed” that the US government unlawfully retaliated against Anthropic by designating it a supply chain risk, US District Judge Rita Lin found Thursday, putting a period on her review of actions tha... (more story)
Congress takes aim at familiar foil in US economic espionage prosecutions
August 28, 2026
| Melissa Ritti
The US Department of Justice has made economic espionage a centerpiece of its effort to protect critical technologies from foreign adversaries. But an analysis by MLex of nearly three decades of prosecutions s... (more story)
US states set new limits on AI use in classrooms
August 28, 2026
| Amy Miller
US states are moving quickly to regulate artificial intelligence in education, with new laws preserving human oversight, restricting student use and requiring clearer standards for classroom tools. But the eme... (more story)
AI chatbots offer next front for US state AGs following Meta settlement
August 26, 2026
| Emma Whitford and Amy Miller
Artificial intelligence companies developing chatbots will likely face mounting pressure from US state attorneys general following an historic settlement Wednesday between Meta Platforms and 52 AGs over claims... (more story)
Japan's AI code puts 'explain' to the test
August 25, 2026
| Toko Sekiguchi
Japan’s finalized generative AI principles code gives AI providers clearer boundaries around what they are expected to disclose, while putting more substance around what it means to “explain” when they do not.