Australian energy ministers are set to consider changes to national energy policy in response to a rapid growth of data centers. The Energy and Climate Change Ministerial Council met Friday and planned to disc... (more story)

Amazon’s lawsuit seeking to keep Perplexity AI’s artificial intelligence-powered shopping tool from purchasing items on its store is testing the reach of longstanding computer-access laws when “agents” act on ... (more story)

Connecticut is bucking a trend among US states this year by sending a sprawling artificial intelligence safety bill to the governor’s desk for approval, hoping to become a model for other state legislatures. B... (more story)

The EU’s flagship AI Act was meant to be an example of the "Brussels effect," pioneering law that would inspire the word, but it ended up a target of the bloc’s simplification agenda to realize the goal of gre... (more story)

As artificial intelligence models become more capable, the question of how President Donald Trump might exert pressure on frontier developers is front and center. For now, his administration is using federal c... (more story)

Online learning company Chegg and news publisher Penske Media are seeking to ensure their antitrust lawsuits don’t suffer the same fate as other publishers’ claims against Google, pointing to Yelp’s case in Ca... (more story)

Companies need to step up as the federal cybersecurity infrastructure in the US faces budget cuts, just as artificial intelligence-fueled attacks are on the rise.

As South Korea doubles down on its sovereign AI ambitions, it has begun testing whether its long-running push for domestic AI semiconductors can translate into real-world deployment. The Ministry of Science an... (more story)