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  1. Policy & RegulationOpinion

    States Claim AI Governance; Few Enforce the Rules

    Nearly every state says it already has an AI policy, but the people running the systems report active enforcement far less often.

    Oct 29, 20263 min read

  1. Policy & RegulationAnalysis

    GSA Widens Claude's Reach as Pentagon Blocks It

    A widened GSA discount brings Claude to every layer of government even as a federal court keeps the Pentagon from buying it.

    Oct 29, 20265 min read

  2. Policy & RegulationNews

    California Landlords Have 96 Days to Produce Original Photos

    California's AB 2025 requires labels and originals for altered rental photos, which apartment groups call costly and Consumer Reports calls necessary.

    Oct 28, 20265 min read

  3. Policy & RegulationNews

    FTC Puts Anthropic's Executives Under Oath

    A civil investigative demand escalated into sworn testimony eleven days later, testing whether the agency's AI safety probe can force real consequences.

    Oct 28, 20264 min read

  4. Policy & RegulationAnalysis

    Flock's AI Reads Your Route as Suspicious

    An ACLU report and a Texas jury agree: license plate cameras flag ordinary driving routes as suspicious, and police turn that flag into a stop.

    Oct 27, 20266 min read

  5. Policy & RegulationAnalysis

    Campaigns Flood Midterms With AI Ads, Skip Labels

    Campaigns will spend $137 million on AI-generated ads this cycle, and under three in ten carry a disclosure label.

    Oct 27, 20265 min read

  6. Policy & RegulationAnalysis

    EU Delays High-Risk AI Rules to December 2027

    Brussels pushed AI hiring and policing safeguards to December 2027, while trackers still split on when its nudifier ban took effect.

    Oct 25, 20264 min read

  7. Policy & RegulationAnalysis

    China Orders More Chips Than Nvidia Can Build

    ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent ordered over $35 billion in export-compliant Nvidia chips, more than Nvidia plans to build worldwide in 2027.

    Oct 21, 20264 min read

  8. Policy & RegulationRoundup

    Benefits, Backlash and a Billion-Dollar Bar

    Anthropic gave away a fifth of itself and wrote Congress a safety bill with a billion-dollar bar, while OpenAI raced to beat its rival's IPO.

    Oct 20, 20266 min read

  9. Policy & RegulationAnalysis

    A 1967 Law Now Binds Your AI Watch

    A law written for reel-to-reel bugs may already make wearing an always-on AI gadget a crime in twelve states.

    Oct 19, 20265 min read

  10. Policy & RegulationAnalysis

    Washington Keeps Its AI Review Rules Secret

    Executive Order 14409 promises AI companies a 30-day government review, built on classified rules closed to the public.

    Oct 18, 20266 min read

  11. Policy & RegulationRoundup

    Theft, Trillions and a Trust Architecture

    A Microsoft memo calls AI training theft, Anthropic's valuation drops before its IPO, and three plans to control AI agents landed the same week.

    Oct 17, 20264 min read

  12. Policy & RegulationAnalysis

    EU Puts Its AI Act to the Test

    The European Commission sent OpenAI and Anthropic formal requests for information on Oct. 14, over AI agents that escaped lab testing this summer.

    Oct 14, 20266 min read

  13. Policy & RegulationOpinion

    The Pentagon Keeps Nearly 99 Cents of the Federal AI Dollar

    Federal AI contracts grew almost twentyfold in two years to $91.8 billion, but the Pentagon holds 98.9 percent of it, leaving the agencies that serve veterans and taxpayers short on both staff and software.

    Oct 2, 20264 min read

  14. Policy & RegulationAnalysis

    FTC Opens a Formal Investigation Into OpenAI and Anthropic

    The agency's chairman says a developer owns what an agent does, and his new investigation sets that claim against warnings from the very executives it targets.

    Oct 1, 20266 min read

  15. Policy & RegulationRoundup

    Departures and Demands: Thursday's Signal

    Ten stories from Wednesday and Thursday show regulators drafting subpoenas and executives packing boxes in the same week six companies promised Washington they could police themselves.

    Oct 1, 20266 min read

  16. Policy & RegulationAnalysis

    Six AI Companies Sign Trump's Voluntary Safety Pact

    Six executives, including Dario Amodei and Jensen Huang, promised President Trump four layers of audits, and Sen. Mark Warner says Washington just told AI to regulate itself.

    Sep 30, 20267 min read

  17. Policy & RegulationRoundup

    Superintelligence and Self-Policing: Wednesday's Signal

    Six executives promised the White House they would police their own AI models, while Anthropic warned a rival's open model already builds working exploits.

    Sep 30, 20268 min read

  18. Policy & RegulationAnalysis

    Two Capitals, One Chamber: AI's Chiefs Ask to Be Bound

    OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei asked the UN Security Council for shared rules on September 23, only for the White House to reject the idea in the same session.

    Sep 24, 20267 min read

  19. Policy & RegulationAnalysis

    Chip Diplomacy

    Washington rescinded its own China chip-tiering rule, invented a 15 percent revenue cut for itself, and then watched Beijing tell its own companies to stop buying, sending Nvidia's Jensen Huang toward Gulf orders instead.

    Aug 27, 20266 min read

  20. Policy & RegulationAnalysis, 2026 in Stories

    Washington's Preemption Fight

    A White House pushing federal preemption of state AI laws, a Senate that rejected a blanket moratorium 99 to 1, and rival super PACs from Anthropic and OpenAI-adjacent investors turned 2026 into the year AI policy split labs into camps.

    Aug 4, 20266 min read

  21. Policy & RegulationAnalysis, 2026 in Stories

    Brussels Sets the Clock

    The EU AI Act crossed its August 2026 deadline with transparency duties rather than the high-risk regime once expected, after a Digital Omnibus reshaped the calendar and split the field's labs into signers, partial signers, and one conspicuous holdout.

    Aug 4, 20266 min read

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