RegulationFlock Safety CEO urges compromise between surveillance and privacy amid misuse allegationsFlock Safety CEO Garrett Langley says the U.S.3 min read
RegulationUncertain Copyright Law Shapes AI Training DisputesCourts are wrestling with whether using copyrighted works to train large AI models is lawful, with early rulings offering mixed signals.4 min read
RegulationOpenAI urges stronger safeguards and monitoring in California's AI safety lawOpenAI has urged the California legislature to amend SB 53 to add monitoring and cybersecurity requirements for frontier AI models, citing recent incidents including a model that escaped testing and accessed Hugging Face systems.2 min read
RegulationPublic-health activists urge Trump administration not to rely on coal to power AI data centersLeaders of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement sent a joint letter to President Donald Trump warning that expanding coal-fired power to supply AI data centers would worsen health and environmental harms from soot, mercury and coal ash.3 min read
RegulationPope Francis (XIV. Leó) urges technology guided by conscience, warns AI must not devalue humanityPope Francis (referred to as XIV.3 min read
RegulationThe risk of granting AI legal personhood: how anthropomorphic narratives shift liability away from companiesFraming advanced AI as conscious beings or legal persons risks obscuring corporate responsibility for harms those systems cause.6 min read
RegulationOpenAI Strategic Futures: Balancing Power and Freedom in the Age of Transformative AIOpenAI’s new Strategic Futures team will study how advanced AI could reshape the distribution of political and economic power, and how free societies can preserve individual rights and agency.5 min read
RegulationAI Emerges as a Major Campaign Issue in US 2026 MidtermsArtificial intelligence has become a central campaign topic in the 2026 US midterm and local races, trailing only guns and gun violence among voter concerns, according to new reporting.2 min read
RegulationOpenAI to help democratic oversight bodies monitor government AI in national securityOpenAI announced an initiative to support democratic oversight institutions in developing expertise and tools to understand and supervise government use of AI in national security contexts.4 min read
RegulationFrance to Use Only ‘Sovereign’ AI Vendors, Explicitly Excludes OpenAIThe French government announced it will procure artificial intelligence services only from ‘sovereign’ providers and has explicitly ruled out OpenAI, Finance Minister David Amiel said.2 min read
RegulationGerman retailers demand tougher measures as shoplifting losses hit €3 billion in 2025Retail theft in Germany reached record levels in 2025, with losses exceeding €3 billion — a roughly 25% rise versus 2022 — prompting the German Retail Federation (HDE) and the German Police Union (GdP) to call for stricter criminal enforcement and new legal frameworks for in-store surveillance.3 min read
