Tag: policy
Texans turned the data center boom into a ballot question
Tuesday's blue wave put two data center skeptics in charge of the state hosting the country's biggest AI…
Apple will stop treating a chatbot boyfriend as an app for kids
App Store rules now put any app with dating or romantic AI companion features behind an 18-and-over rating.
Anthropic drafts conduct code for shopping bots that haggle
The company is consulting law firms on fair negotiation norms, hiring lawyers as research fellows and warning that…
Meta backs down and strips the scraping clause from its terms
After a week of reporting and pushback from publishers, Meta removed language experts said let it train AI…
White House restores UK testers’ access to frontier models
The block on Britain's AI Security Institute was lifted after diplomatic pressure, days before the UK announced its…
Archestra moves agent security outside the model’s reach
A new policy engine blocks prompt-injection and data leaks by enforcing rules outside the agent's own execution loop.
Amazon commits $1B more to towns hosting its data centers
AWS will add more than $1B over five years for schools, energy upgrades and local grants in US…
Six AI giants sign a self-policing pact at the White House
A one-page accord asks frontier labs to audit themselves, with no penalties attached.
California sets a November deadline for a frontier model kill switch
Executive Order N-9-26 orders state agencies to draft an emergency shutoff for frontier AI.
House votes 417-3 to shift grid upgrade costs onto data centers
The House has passed the Ratepayer Protection Act, which tells state regulators to make large data center customers…
China sets a sixfold AI compute goal in its latest five-year plan
Beijing wants 9,800 eflops of intelligent computing capacity by 2030, up from 1,590 in 2025.
California clears a path for outside AI safety auditors
California's legislature approves a bill creating state-designated outside AI safety auditors.