Policy · Page 19
regulation, copyright fights, safety rules and the politics of AI
Trump's New 15% Tariff Targets a Key Ingredient in Chips and Solar Panels
Polysilicon, the material China dominates making, will cost importers more from December. Here's what that means for AI hardware and your energy bill.
Asimov Wrote the Rulebook for Robots. Can His Ideas Fix AI?
Governments are moving on AI regulation, but the rules tell companies what not to do rather than what AI should care about. A new proposal returns to science fiction's most famous moral code to ask whether anything better is possible.
Australia's Government Is Writing the Rules for AI Data Centres. Can It Actually Work?
A senior minister is talking about copyright scraping, public distrust and national standards for data centres. What the policy push means for ordinary Australians.
ICE Has Taken DNA From Nearly a Million People This Year, Including Young Children
A WIRED investigation reveals the agency's DNA dragnet now feeds an FBI database indefinitely. Plus: Google Earth's AI backfire (which we first reported on 31 July), a secret White House cybersecurity plan, and a SpaceX rocket that quietly hit the moon.
SoftBank Gave Trump's Library $50 Million. Two Months Later, It Got a Huge Federal Land Deal.
The Japanese tech giant confirmed the timeline to US senators, raising fresh questions about whether big donations to a sitting president's library can buy government favours.
Red State Voters Are Protesting AI Data Centers, and It's Scrambling American Politics
A unanimous vote in Hernando County, Florida to halt new data center construction is one sign of a spreading, bipartisan anger at the buildings powering the AI boom.
Google's Biggest AI Reshuffle Signals a Culture Shift, Not Just a Org Chart Tweak
Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years, Demis Hassabis is stepping back from day-to-day leadership, and insiders say a Pentagon contract may be at the root of it all.
Denmark tells students: defend your AI-written essay out loud or fail
Danish schools are adding oral exams and screen monitoring to catch students who use AI to write their essays. Here is what the new rules mean and why other countries are watching.
A 60-day deadline on AI rules lands today. Here is what it means for patients and everyone else.
The White House set itself an August 1 deadline to finish a framework for reviewing powerful AI models before public release. The clock has run out, and the rules will shape which AI tools reach doctors, businesses and ordinary users first.
Meta Approved and Ran Ads Showing AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Images for Nine Months
More than 50 paid advertisements containing child sexual abuse material ran across Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Some reached thousands of accounts in Europe and the United States before researchers forced Meta's hand.
Meta's Smart Glasses Are Sparking a Privacy Backlash Across Europe
Activists, rights groups and now entire governments are pushing back against glasses that can film strangers in public without any visible warning.
Teachers Are Getting AI Training. Their Union Took $23 Million From Big Tech To Pay For It.
The American Federation of Teachers wants to help its members understand and manage AI in classrooms. Where the money came from is harder to defend.
New Rules Are Closing In on AI Influencers, and the Creators Behind Them Are Worried
A mother in Brisbane built a virtual model to support her family. New EU labelling laws and platform crackdowns are now putting her business model, and thousands like it, under real pressure.
Court Documents Reveal Anthropic's Secret Plan to 'Destructively Scan All the Books in the World'
An internal memo uncovered in a copyright lawsuit shows the Claude maker ran a covert book-scanning project it deliberately hid under a codename.
Trump's AI Safety Framework Skips Open-Source Models Entirely
The White House has a new plan for testing AI before it reaches the public. It only covers a narrow slice of the market, and key terms are left undefined.