Policy · Page 12
regulation, copyright fights, safety rules and the politics of AI
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?
The Data Centre Story Just Went from Zero to Everywhere on AI2Day
In one week our coverage of AI's power and land problem jumped from one story to six, across three separate outlets. Here is what that shape actually tells us, and what would prove it real.
Bank of England boss warns advanced AI could crash the global financial system
Andrew Bailey sent a two-page letter to finance ministers worldwide saying the most powerful AI systems are developing dangerous capabilities that could ripple across every country's economy.
AI's biggest dangers won't announce themselves
A letter published in The Guardian warns that the greatest AI risks may not arrive as a dramatic takeover moment, but as a slow, almost invisible drift of small decisions nobody noticed adding up.
Texas congela programa de $30 millones de cámaras de IA entre creciente rechazo bipartidista a la privacidad
El gobernador Greg Abbott ha detenido el gasto estatal en cámaras Flock Safety después de que una investigación periodística revelara que Texas gastó discretamente más de $30 millones en la red de vigilancia con IA, financiada por una tarifa de $1 añadida a las pólizas de seguros.
Nobody Wanted That Datacenter: How AI's Hunger for Land Is Uniting Unlikely Neighbours
A Google project planned for a small Indiana town drew something rarely seen in American politics right now: unanimous local opposition, from Trump voters and climate activists alike.
Sony Music and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic for Billions Over AI Training Data
The lawsuit names Anthropic co-founders personally and alleges employees downloaded millions of pirated books and scraped licensed song lyrics to train the Claude AI.
UK telecoms are too slow for the AI era, warn industry bosses
Planning hold-ups and patchy 5G coverage could leave Britain trailing the US, China and Europe in handling the flood of data that AI demands.
The EPA wants to let data centers get air permits without telling you they exist
A proposed rule change would strip away the federal requirement for public notice before industrial sites, including AI data centers, receive pollution permits. Residents may not find out until construction has already started.
Across the US, politicians are turning against data centres. Here is why your electricity bill is part of the story.
More than a dozen US states have weighed temporary bans on new data centres, the giant warehouse-like buildings that power AI services. Now ordinary energy customers are starting to understand why.
Australia's Data Centres Could Eat 13% of National Electricity by 2035
A regulator's forecast buried in a routine report reveals how sharply AI infrastructure is set to reshape Australia's power grid, and who gets to decide what gets built where.
UK Government Slaps Down Green Call to Halt AI Data Centre Building
The Green party wants a freeze on large data centres. Labour says that would kill jobs and damage national security. Here is what the row is actually about.
He Scraped a Million Artists' Work for Fun. Now He's Helping Them Fight Back.
A student who downloaded Cara's entire image library and bragged about it online ended up regretting the stunt and building a protection tool with the platform's founder.