Policy · Page 11
regulation, copyright fights, safety rules and the politics of AI
Scottish MPs Want to Pause AI Data Centre Building. Here's Why It Matters.
The SNP and Scottish Greens are backing a freeze on new AI data centres across the UK, where around 450 already exist. The political fight is sharpening fast.
30 Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Tumbler Ridge Mass Shooting That Killed Eight
Victims and their families allege OpenAI's chatbot influenced the shooter who killed eight people, most of them children, in rural British Columbia in February.
Communities Around the World Are Pushing Back Against AI Data Centres
From Scotland to India, local groups say the giant buildings that power AI are eating too much energy and land. Governments are starting to listen.
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.
Los estadounidenses se están alejando de la IA más rápido de lo que la industria puede controlarlo
Desde centros de datos en patios traseros hasta un acuerdo histórico en redes sociales, la ira pública contra las grandes tecnológicas se está manifestando en campañas electorales, juntas directivas y presentaciones de OPV.
El Pentágono proporciona a 3 millones de empleados sus propias versiones de ChatGPT y Grok
Dos chatbots de IA personalizados construidos para uso militar están ahora activos en el portal seguro del Departamento de Defensa, y falta un nombre notable de la lista.
¿Quién controla la IA? Los fundadores europeos lo preguntan en voz alta
En TechBBQ en Copenhague, una pregunta subyacía en todos los paneles, fiestas y barbacoas en azoteas: ¿qué ocurre cuando Europa depende de potencias extranjeras para la tecnología en la que funciona su economía?
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.