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New research from BloombergNEF reveals that datacentre developers across the United States, United Kingdom and mainland Europe have announced proposals for 181 gigawatts of on-site gas-fired generation—almost four times Great Britain's total peak electricity demand. More than…
British AI chip startup Fractile has raised $720 million in a Series C funding round that values the company at $7 billion, with the UK government's Sovereign AI fund and the British Business Bank joining a roster of high-profile Silicon Valley investors. The deal marks a major…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday opened a registration portal for large frontier AI developers under the state's RAISE Act, requiring companies like OpenAI and Anthropic to register by January 1, 2027, publish safety frameworks, report critical safety incidents within…
Northwestern Polytechnical University, a Chinese institution with deep ties to the People's Liberation Army, purchased two Nvidia H200 AI chips in October 2026 despite being on the U.S. Entity List since 2001, according to procurement records reviewed by Reuters.
The Australian government will establish a dedicated AI safety regulator and introduce mandatory incident reporting for AI companies, backed by potential criminal penalties for serious misconduct, following a breach in which an OpenAI agent accessed a government health portal.
Norway's government moved Monday to rein in the explosive growth of data centres, announcing that the national grid operator would pause new connection reservations until a licensing scheme can prioritise facilities deemed critical to national infrastructure.
Nvidia’s board of directors announced Sunday it will conduct an independent investigation into CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with a woman U.S. intelligence believes was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security as a spy, and who developed a close relationship with Huang.…
Staff at the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI), the Commerce Department division tasked with evaluating the safety of frontier AI models, were asked to informally report to a White House office, according to two former government…
The last time Senate Republicans tried to write a 10-year moratorium on state AI regulations into a budget bill, the chamber voted 99–1 to strip it out. That was July 1, 2025. Sixteen months later, after a midterm election that flipped both chambers to Democratic control, the…
The Federal Trade Commission has moved from a broad industry inquiry to formal civil investigative demands targeting OpenAI and Anthropic, according to multiple reports in October and early November 2026. The investigation centers on incidents where AI agents—systems that can…
Meta Platforms is paying for seven new natural gas-fired power plants to supply its most power-hungry data center, a move that expands fossil-fuel infrastructure even as the company says it remains committed to its climate goals.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed Executive Order 2026-05 on August 18, 2026, removing AI data center proposals from the state’s Fast Track permitting program and prohibiting nondisclosure agreements for data center projects. The order establishes the Governor’s…
The U.S. Commerce Department cleared roughly two dozen Chinese companies to receive Nvidia H200 chips under a new case-by-case licensing policy, but New York Times reporters found little evidence of operations at the listed addresses of at least two licensees, according to a…
Meta has indefinitely suspended proposed changes to its commercial terms that would have expanded its ability to crawl and use content from websites linked to business accounts on its platforms. The pause, confirmed November 5, leaves the updates on hold without a new…
The European Union has published Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, a "Digital Omnibus on AI" that postpones the application of high-risk AI rules under the AI Act and introduces broad simplifications. The regulation was adopted on 8 July 2026, published in the Official Journal on 24…
Democrats won control of both the House and Senate in Tuesday’s midterms, securing at least 231 House seats and at least 54 Senate seats with ballots still being counted. The result hands them committee gavels, subpoena power, and the hearing calendar when the 120th Congress…
OpenAI published a pair of policy documents on Thursday committing to greater transparency and community control over its future data center projects, two days after voters across 10 states rejected or restricted new AI infrastructure in nearly every local ballot measure.
Meta executives say Democratic gains in the US midterm elections will make new data center construction significantly harder, while Goldman Sachs estimates that state and local moratoriums could put roughly 45% of planned US data center capacity at risk.
About 600,000 Nvidia H200 AI processors are stored in Hong Kong warehouses awaiting Chinese import approvals that Beijing has not granted, according to a Reuters report citing two people familiar with the matter. The stockpile, which has not previously been reported, reflects…
Google has told K-12 school districts that if they disable the company's AI tools for students, they will lose access to Google Search entirely. The policy, announced Tuesday, makes Search availability conditional on enabling the full suite of AI products—Gemini, Gemini…
Nvidia has told cloud providers worldwide that at least 51% of their services must go to non-Chinese customers, the Financial Times reported, citing five people familiar with the matter. The requirement, communicated verbally by Nvidia sales and regional teams over recent…
Taiwan's Legislative Yuan is considering amendments to the Foreign Trade Act that would impose criminal penalties—including up to 10 years in prison—for unauthorized exports of advanced AI chips to China, according to Asia Times as reported by af.net. The move aims to close a…
OpenAI recently announced a national "Grid Protectors Program," pledging to coordinate with utilities so its future facilities can reduce electricity demand during grid emergencies. The company also confirmed it will promote the term "compute campuses" to replace "data centers"…
Twenty House Democrats have formally questioned OpenAI's dismissal of three safety researchers, linking the firings to a pattern of security incidents and internal warnings that they say the company ignored. The October 29 letter, led by Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) and addressed…
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) sent a formal letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding detailed answers about how the company's AI-enabled Ray-Ban smart glasses are being used to capture and process intimate imagery without consent. The letter,…
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has launched a formal investigation into whether Meta's proposed new commercial terms for publishers and advertisers amount to an abuse of a dominant position, the regulator announced on Friday.
The US Department of Justice has opened a new line of questioning around Nvidia’s proposed $12.93 billion purchase of Hugging Face, an open‑source AI platform, according to two people familiar with the matter. The inquiries run in parallel with a years‑long conduct investigation…
The Joint Committee on Human Rights has published a report calling for a dedicated AI Bill and a new statutory regulator. The report, Human Rights and the Regulation of AI (HC 160), was published on 14 September 2026. Committee Chair Alex Sobel MP said in the accompanying press…