RegulationHungarian ministry proposes adding ecological farming, biotechnology and AI engineering to higher education listThe Oktatási és Gyermekügyi Minisztérium has published a draft regulation to expand the official higher education qualification register with new programmes including ecological farming, biotechnology, reedukáció (remedial education) and an Artificial Intelligence Engineering master's.2 min read
RegulationIFP publishes 23 policy proposals to manage risks from automated AI researchThe Institute for Progress (IFP) released 23 specific policy recommendations across seven categories aimed at helping policymakers address risks that arise as AI research itself becomes more automated.3 min read
RegulationSenator Sanders Urges Top AI CEOs to Pause Development, Warns of Senate ActionSenator Bernie Sanders urged CEOs Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Mark Zuckerberg to pause AI development, saying lawmakers will intervene if tech leaders do not act.2 min read
RegulationHistorian Jill Lepore: Tech Firms Taking on State Functions Threatens DemocracyHarvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore argues in her forthcoming book The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State that private technology companies are increasingly performing roles traditionally held by democratic governments, a shift she sees as dangerous for democratic equality.6 min read
RegulationHungary launches government website for AI information and deepfake complaintsThe Hungarian government has launched a new website, mihivatal.gov.hu, to answer public questions about artificial intelligence and to accept complaints related to AI and deepfake content, Science and Technology Minister Zoltán Tanács announced.2 min read
RegulationMontana allows biotech companies to sell experimental drugs directly to consumersThis week Montana became the first U.S.3 min read
RegulationState-by-state patchwork leaves voters with uneven protection from AI deepfakes ahead of electionsA mosaic of state laws means Americans will face different levels of protection against AI-generated election deepfakes in the run-up to Election Day.2 min read
RegulationNew Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay $567M and Change Platforms to Protect MinorsA Santa Fe judge found that Meta violated New Mexico public-interest law and ordered the company to pay $567 million and implement specific child-protection measures over a five-year injunction.3 min read
RegulationTexas pauses new data center approvals as ERCOT power queue balloonsTexas has temporarily frozen approvals for new data centers and ordered audits of projects seeking to connect to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid, after ERCOT's interconnection queue reached about 474 gigawatts of proposed new demand.2 min read
RegulationDenmark requires oral defenses to detect AI-written school essaysThe Danish government is introducing immediate measures to curb the use of artificial intelligence in high school assignments: students will now have to orally defend written essays completed at home, with schools encouraged to shift written work to supervised, in-school settings.2 min read
RegulationWhite House Keeps Frontier AI Security Reviews Closed to PublicThe White House has been conducting a confidential framework with OpenAI and Anthropic to assess cybersecurity risks from frontier AI models, requiring top models to be submitted 30 days before release.3 min read
RegulationFederal Reserve Regional Chief Warns AI Investments Pose Systemic RisksJeff Schmid, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, said recent AI investment volumes and financial links among firms have grown large enough to warrant macroprudential attention.3 min read
