Policy · Page 11
regulation, copyright fights, safety rules and the politics of AI
University of Sydney staff walk out over AI fears as trust survey hits zero
Hundreds of staff picketed and thousands more joined a 24-hour strike after an internal survey found not a single arts faculty member trusted the university to act in their interests.
UK's Former AI Strategy Chief Joins Anthropic in Senior Role
Matt Clifford, the tech investor who shaped Britain's artificial intelligence policy under two prime ministers, has taken a senior position at the US company behind the Claude AI assistant.
Australia Proposes Its Biggest Privacy Shake-Up in Years. Here Is What Sparked It.
Facial recognition in shopping centres, 'pervert glasses' on sale at Kmart, and ad-targeting that poisons your social feeds. Australia's proposed Privacy Act changes are a direct response to all three.
Top Pentagon AI official sold up to $25 million in Perplexity stock while overseeing military AI policy
Emil Michael, the senior Defense Department official responsible for military AI decisions, has now offloaded shares in a second major AI company after selling up to $24 million in Elon Musk's xAI earlier this year.
Europe Could Hold the Only Real Brake on the Global AI Race
A Guardian columnist argues that export controls on the machines that build AI chips might be the one lever powerful enough to slow an industry that few governments seem willing to touch.
Americans are souring on AI faster than the industry can spin it
From data centers in backyards to a landmark social media settlement, public anger at big tech is showing up in election campaigns, boardrooms, and IPO filings.
The Pentagon gives 3 million staff their own versions of ChatGPT and Grok
Two custom AI chatbots built for military use are now live on the Defense Department's secure portal, and one notable name is missing from the list.
Who Controls the AI? Europe's Founders Are Asking Out Loud
At TechBBQ in Copenhagen, a question ran beneath every panel, party and rooftop barbecue: what happens when Europe depends on foreign powers for the technology its economy runs on?
Trump warns datacenter opponents they will end up 'backwards and poor'
Three in four Americans say they do not want a datacenter near their home. The president says communities that block them will have only themselves to blame.
Who should pay for the power hungry AI data centres? Readers say: the companies building them
Two planned UK data centres could emit more carbon than ExxonMobil. Letter writers want the tech industry to generate its own electricity and clean up its own mess.
Debian says yes to AI tools, but puts full responsibility on the developer
The popular Linux distribution just passed a new policy letting contributors use AI in their work. It won't ban the tools, but it will hold every developer accountable for whatever they ship.
AI-Generated Fake Research Is Flooding Australia's Parliamentary Inquiry System
Submissions to government committees are citing studies that don't exist and attributing them to real academics, with some reports built largely on invented sources.
ChatGPT Is Now Subject to the EU's Toughest Platform Rules
The European Commission has classified ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine, putting OpenAI under the same strict rules that govern the biggest social media platforms in Europe.
Instagram Will Flag Fake AI Profiles and Cut Their Reach if They Hide What They Are
The platform is renaming its label for AI-generated personas and will penalise accounts that pretend to be human without disclosing it.
Voters Are Worried About AI in Politics. Here's What Good AI Campaigning Actually Looks Like
Deepfakes and propaganda fill the headlines, but a quieter question keeps getting skipped: could AI help politicians actually listen to the people they represent?