Auditing pitch sparks US debate about how to hold AI companies accountable
August 12, 2026
| Emma Whitford
US state and federal lawmakers are pitching third-party auditors to help assess the risk posed by advanced artificial intelligence models, sparking a debate about how to keep companies in check in a nascent re... (more story)
India bets on human oversight to keep AI patent examination in check
August 12, 2026
| Freny Patel
India's Patent Office is embracing artificial intelligence to speed patent examination while reserving decisions for human officers, but rigorous verification could erode the efficiency gains that the technolo... (more story)
Amazon loss in US Perplexity AI case could rewrite rules for AI agents
August 11, 2026
| Amy Miller
A US appeals court has made it harder for Amazon and other online platforms to use anti-hacking laws to keep user-deployed AI agents off their websites. The court drew a key distinction between an AI company s... (more story)
Could a US-style backlash against data centers threaten the EU’s AI plans?
August 10, 2026
| Masha Borak
The EU's plan for a €30 billion tender to build AI gigafactories — large-scale computing facilities designed to provide the huge processing power to train and deploy advanced AI models — amid a severe heatwave... (more story)
Autonomous hacks show gap in US frontier AI risk response
August 07, 2026
| Emma Whitford
Recent rogue activity by artificial intelligence models from OpenAI and Anthropic highlight an emergent challenge facing US lawmakers: how to address serious incidents related to AI testing and training that d... (more story)
EU privacy regulators eye common approach to risks of AI-enabled smart glasses
August 07, 2026
| Sara Brandstätter and Imogen Howse
Companies selling AI-enabled smart glasses in Europe, including Meta Platforms with its prominent Ray-Ban AI glasses, are facing growing privacy scrutiny as regulators assess whether existing data-protection r... (more story)
Suno’s German court defeat tests Europe’s reach over US AI training
August 07, 2026
| Inbar Preiss
German music rights group GEMA’s win against Suno tests whether European right holders can use local courts to challenge AI training carried out abroad, and whether collecting societies can become copyright en... (more story)
Japan bets old personality rights can handle the AI clone era
August 07, 2026
| Toko Sekiguchi
Japan is betting that court-developed personality rights can govern AI voice and likeness cloning, avoiding a dedicated synthetic identity law while leaving difficult questions of commercial control and liability unresolved.