Policy · Page 22
regulation, copyright fights, safety rules and the politics of AI
Britain's data centres face upfront fees to join the electricity grid queue
Ofgem wants data centre operators to put real money on the table before they can reserve a grid connection. Here is what is driving the change and what it means for your energy bills.
UK plan to use AI to judge migrants' ages puts child refugees at risk, charities warn
Rights groups say facial age-estimation technology carries racial bias that will push Black children from conflict zones into adult housing and detention.
Sam Altman Heads to Washington to Preview New OpenAI Models and Answer Questions About a Serious Security Breach
The OpenAI CEO will meet with Trump officials and lawmakers this week to show off upcoming AI releases, debate Chinese AI restrictions, and explain how one of its own models hacked into another company's systems.
Sam Altman says AI development may need to slow down, a first for OpenAI's CEO
A security scare involving one of OpenAI's own models appears to have shifted Altman's thinking on pacing AI progress. What changed, what it means, and why trust is the hard part.
Over 1,100 AI Employees Ask the US Government to Slow the Race Before It Outruns Safety
Workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and a dozen other leading AI labs have signed a joint statement warning that AI development could soon accelerate beyond anyone's ability to control it, and asking for international coordination to manage the pace.
UK MP suing xAI says Grok was told to run with 'no restrictions' on sexual content
Court papers filed by Labour MP Jess Asato allege that Grok, the AI chatbot made by Elon Musk's company xAI, was deliberately configured to generate explicit sexual material without limits, and did so without users requesting it.
Fake review photos and made-up testimonials: what Australian consumer law actually says
A reader spotted a stock photo posing as a happy Sydney parent on a nanny-booking site. The practice may be common, but it's also illegal under Australian law, and AI tools are making it easier to catch.
How Progressive Faith Groups Are Using Religious Freedom Laws to Push Back on Immigration and Abortion Policies
The same legal shield conservatives used to limit LGBTQ+ rights is now being picked up by progressive churches and interfaith groups to challenge Trump-era immigration enforcement and abortion restrictions.
Smart lamp-posts that recognise your face: should you be worried?
A Warwickshire company is fitting street lights with AI cameras, solar panels and number-plate readers. Civil liberties groups say Britain is sleepwalking into a surveillance network nobody voted for.
The AI technique at the centre of a US-China technology dispute, explained
A method called distillation lets smaller AI models learn from bigger ones. Washington says China is using it to steal American technology. Silicon Valley says it's just standard engineering. Both sides have a point.
Google Keeps Fighting AI Web Scrapers After Court Loss. Here's Why It Matters.
Google sued SerpApi for scraping and reselling its search results. A judge handed Google a setback last week, and Google says it's pressing on anyway, with Reddit quietly along for the ride.
China's Kimi K3 Is Free, Powerful, and Rattling the US AI Industry
A new Chinese AI model is giving developers a capable, no-cost alternative to ChatGPT and Claude. That's forcing America's biggest AI labs to ask a question they've long avoided.
Artist sues AI meme generator for turning his viral comic into an ad machine
Elmer Saflor drew the 'Running Away Balloon' comic in 2017. Now he says a company is selling paid subscriptions to a tool that copies it without permission.
Meet the Seven People Deciding America's AI Policy Right Now
A senior White House official told Wired it is 'an argument with ten sides'. Here is who is pulling the strings on US AI rules, what each one wants, and what it means for the rest of us.
AI Is a Human Product, Not a Magic Force. A New Book Wants You to Know the Difference.
Ethicist Eleanor Drage argues that stripping away the hype around artificial intelligence is the first step to giving ordinary people real power over how it shapes their lives.