Texas AG launches probe of Meta Glasses citing privacy concerns
May 20, 2026
| Madeline Hughes
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating Meta Platforms’ Meta AI Glasses, which can record audio and video that wearers can capture, his office announced Wednesday.
US banks using AI to varying degrees to help vulnerable customers, Fed's Barr says
May 20, 2026
| Neil Roland
US banks are using artificial intelligence to varying degrees to help measure the financial health of their vulnerable customers, though these firms still have to surmount a number of challenges to support inn... (more story)
EU digital sovereignty rules may raise costs, worsen services, tech lobby warns
May 20, 2026
| Matthew Newman
The EU's push for digital sovereignty could have unintended consequences including higher costs for European companies and the need to use inferior cloud services, the head of a leading tech association said W... (more story)
Global banking watchdog wants broad AI sector engagement to help cut cyber risks
May 20, 2026
| Patricia Figueiredo and Sofia Gerace
The banking sector's global risk watchdog has said it welcomes AI developers to engage with it in a bid to help financial firms understand and handle the cyber risks associated with the kinds of frontier model... (more story)
Indonesia targets corruption, efficiency with AI push across government
May 20, 2026
| James Konstantin Galvez
Indonesia plans to expand the use of artificial intelligence across government administration, welfare distribution, procurement and financial supervision, with a senior official presenting AI as a tool to imp... (more story)
Singapore refreshes AI strategy to support industrial-scale deployment
May 20, 2026
| James Konstantin Galvez
Singapore is sharpening its artificial intelligence strategy to support industrial-scale deployment and bolster governance of autonomous AI systems, Digital Development and Information Minister Josephine Teo a... (more story)
Book publishers win default US judgment against 'pirate site' Anna’s Archive
May 19, 2026
| Samuel Rubenfeld and Emma Whitford
US District Judge Jed Rakoff granted a default judgment of $19.5 million to book publishers who sued Anna’s Archive and 10 unnamed owners and operators for acting as a supplier of stolen content to the artific... (more story)
US panel weighs if Anthropic risk finding within bounds or ‘spectacular overreach’
May 19, 2026
| Emma Whitford
Neither Anthropic nor the US Department of Defense escaped scrutiny Tuesday as a federal appellate panel considered the bounds of a relatively untested statute behind the AI developer’s supply chain risk desig... (more story)