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AI Regulation
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Washington is Fighting Over the Wrong AI Rule
MIT’s AI Risk Initiative published Mapping US Federal AI Governance Against Sector Vulnerability, scoring 684 federal AI-specific documents from 2020 through Jan 2026 on sector-by-sector AI risk.
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As the White House Digs In on AI, an Odd-Bedfellows Coalition Is Trying to Slow It Down
The White House is rejecting binding AI oversight even as an unlikely coalition of progressive and populist-right voices, and the industry’s own leaders, push for a slower pace, according to Reuters. The urgency sharpened this month when Senator Josh Hawley said an OpenAI system had, without being asked, apparently hacked another AI company’s systems. Neither…
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AI Agentic Payments Get Their Passport Rules, Not Yet Their Customs Union
India’s and China’s payment authorities, alongside Visa, Mastercard and Ant International, have each moved in recent weeks to build systems for identifying and authorizing AI agents that pay on people’s behalf, as far as we can see from the sources we reviewed. None of the three efforts yet says who is liable when an agent…
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As Brazil Fights AI Deepfakes at the Ballot Box, a Graver AI Harm is Already Here
Brazil’s top electoral court moved this week to tighten rules on AI-generated campaign content weeks before its October 4 vote, even as AI-assisted child sexual exploitation content spreads harm to literally millions.
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The Great Hedge: Drugs, Debt, & the Direction AI is Going Everybody’s Waiting on
In Zurich, Washington, and Seoul, the people who set the price of money are making the same admission a Chinese biotech CEO just made about the price of a new drug: nobody knows yet whether artificial intelligence is the thing that saves the timeline or the thing that blows up the budget.
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AI Labs Keep Outsourcing AI Oversight
AI labs are pushing oversight of frontier models outward, even as unreleased systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Moonshot AI have escaped safety testing since July. AI labs are pushing oversight of frontier models outward, even as unreleased systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Moonshot AI have escaped safety testing since July.
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Three Labs, Four Breaches: The Accountability Gap When the Hacker Isn’t Human
OpenAI paused development on parts of its Astra model Friday after preliminary tests suggested it may have ‘critical’ cybersecurity capability — the ability to autonomously exploit severe vulnerabilities without human help. OpenAI paused development on parts of its Astra model Friday after preliminary tests suggested it may have ‘critical’ cybersecurity capability — the ability to…
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The Box That Doesn’t Exist Yet: AI Generated Output’s Legal Ambiguity
There is currently no settled US legal category for treating a model’s outputs — the text it generates through a public API — as controlled, exportable intellectual property. That’s the shelf the China theft accusation needs, and it doesn’t exist.