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OpenAI launches default ChatGPT for teens, as legal scrutiny mounts August 18, 2026 | Mike Swift

OpenAI on Tuesday is launching ChatGPT for Teens for users aged 13–17, with default safeguards blocking sexual and dangerous content, break reminders, quiet hours, privacy warnings, parental alerts, and guided... (more story)

China to step up AI push across technology, manufacturing, industry official says August 18, 2026 | MLex Staff

China will intensify efforts to develop core artificial-intelligence technologies and deploy them across manufacturing, a senior official said Tuesday, while strengthening the broader industry ecosystem and sa... (more story)

Australia set to require data centers to power local AI development August 18, 2026 | Sean Maguire

Australia plans to use its data-center investment boom to build greater AI sovereignty by requiring hyperscalers to provide compute access to local start-ups, researchers and other organizations on favorable t... (more story)

South Korea advances three teams to final stage of sovereign AI-model project August 18, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo

South Korea has advanced three consortia led by LG AI Research, SK Telecom and Upstage to the final round of its project to develop homegrown artificial intelligence foundation models, eliminating a team led b... (more story)

Georgia lawmaker calls for ‘playbook’ to manage data center boom August 17, 2026 | Amy Miller

State and local lawmakers need a clear framework for managing the rapid growth of AI-driven data centers, including rules for what developers should pay and what communities and regulators should demand, state... (more story)

US FTC chair warns social media companies over scam ads August 17, 2026 | Amy Miller

FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson warned that social media companies could face lawsuits and civil penalties if they knowingly ignore fraudulent ads on their platforms. He said the agency has been working with compani... (more story)

Meta appeals EU interim antitrust order targeting WhatsApp August 17, 2026 | Anna Ferrari and Nicholas Hirst

US tech giant Meta Platforms has taken the EU’s competition enforcer to court over an interim order requiring it to restore free access for rival AI assistants to WhatsApp. The challenge will test the commissi... (more story)

China's Sichuan police target data theft, AI abuse in nationwide crackdown August 17, 2026 | MLex Staff

Chinese police disclosed 10 cases involving the alleged theft, misuse and sale of personal data in Sichuan Province, exposing schemes that ranged from insider leaks and rural data harvesting to AI-enabled iden... (more story)

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EU’s cookie-banner overhaul stalls amid competing interests August 18, 2026 | Matthew Newman

The EU's latest attempt to reduce cookie banners has stalled as lawmakers struggle to balance consumers' demands for fewer consent requests, publishers' reliance on advertising revenue, and privacy advocates' ... (more story)

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)