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Technology policy, regulation, government action, digital rights, platform rules, AI governance, cybersecurity policy, privacy law, and public-sector decisions affecting technology and the internet.
Google DeepMind’s AI Control Roadmap Treats Agents Like Insider Threats
Google DeepMind released an AI Control Roadmap for securing powerful internal AI agents. The plan borrows from cybersecurity, maps rogue-agent tactics to a MITRE ATT&CK-style taxonomy, and lays out detection and response tiers for systems that may soon act faster than human reviewers can supervise.
FERC Gives AI Data Centers a Faster Path to the Grid
FERC ordered six regional grid operators to justify or revise their rules for connecting data centers and other large power users. The move could speed AI infrastructure projects, but it puts cost allocation, flexible loads, and state oversight under a sharper deadline.
Accenture’s Dragos Deal Puts OT Security on an AI Threat Clock
Accenture agreed to take a majority stake in Dragos and buy runZero and NetRise, creating a $4.175 billion bet on operational technology security as AI and geopolitical risk push industrial systems onto the cybersecurity agenda.
Security Leaders Say the Fable 5 Ban Could Hurt Cyber Defense
An open letter from cybersecurity leaders asks the U.S. government to lift export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5, arguing that the disputed capability overlaps with normal defensive bug fixing and should be handled through transparent AI risk reviews.
G7 AI Summit Turns Model Access Into a Sovereignty Fight
AI leaders are gathering at the G7 in France as Europe, Canada, and other allies question how much critical AI infrastructure should depend on U.S. model labs, cloud providers, chips, and export-control decisions.
Google’s $1.5B Alabama Data Center Expansion Puts AI Power Costs on Display
Google is spending $1.5 billion to expand its Jackson County, Alabama data center campus while promising to cover its own power and infrastructure costs. The deal shows how AI infrastructure growth is becoming a fight over electricity bills, grid upgrades, nuclear power, and local energy programs.
AI Preemption Is Being Pulled Into the Kids’ Online Safety Fight
Washington’s AI preemption push is now tangled with KOSA, age verification, AI-companion rules, and digital-replica policy. That makes a national AI law more politically tempting and more complicated for platforms, AI companies, and states.
UK’s Under-16 Social Media Plan Pushes Age Checks Into Games and AI Chatbots
The UK is preparing an “Australia plus” under-16 social media plan that would reach beyond TikTok and Instagram into gaming chat, late-night scrolling, AI chatbots, and age-verification systems.
State AI Laws Keep Moving as Washington Tries to Stop the Patchwork
States are still advancing AI rules for hiring, lending, chatbot safety, disclosures, and automated decisions even as the White House pushes back against a fragmented regulatory map.
FCC Burner Phone Proposal Would Turn Phone Privacy Into a KYC Fight
The FCC’s proposed know-your-customer rule would push voice providers to collect and retain more identity data before activating service. The anti-robocall plan also raises a direct fight over prepaid phones, anonymous numbers, and mobile privacy.