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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.
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.
OpenAI Probe Puts ChatGPT’s User Safety Claims Under State Scrutiny
A multistate attorney general investigation is asking for records on ChatGPT safety, advertising, retention, health data, minors, seniors, and model sycophancy. The probe turns consumer AI design choices into a legal and policy test.
The FBI’s Fake Town Shows Cyber Response Has Become Real-World Training
The FBI’s 22,000-square-foot Kinetic Cyber Range turns ransomware, digital forensics, hospitals, vehicles, and data centers into live exercises for cyber investigators. The lesson for defenders is that incident response now has to practice people, places, and systems together.
U.S. Order Forces Anthropic to Pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Offline
Anthropic disabled Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a U.S. export-control directive covering foreign-national access. The abrupt shutdown turns frontier AI access into an operational risk for developers and enterprises.
CISA’s New Patch Directive Makes Three Days the High-Risk Deadline
CISA’s BOD 26-04 replaces flat federal vulnerability deadlines with a risk-based model that can require three-day remediation and forensic triage. The lesson for security teams is that exposure, exploitation, automation, and impact now matter more than CVSS alone.