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  1. · Society

    Data centres to pay for their grid connections: a vote of 417 to 3

    A text passed almost unanimously requires large data-centre consumers to pay for the grid upgrades they cause, rather than passing them on to household bills. We analyse what it means.
  2. · Society

    Independent evaluators will work inside the laboratories

    Anthropic is installing embedded evaluators with employee-level access, and OpenAI has committed to doing the same. We analyse this arrangement and what will determine its real value.
  3. · Society

    The debate over the slowdown erupts in public

    Dario Amodei's call to slow down triggered responses from the heads of Microsoft, OpenAI and xAI within four days, a legislative proposal and political reactions. We analyse this shift of the debate into the public sphere.
  4. · Society

    Microsoft joins the slowdown camp, while a standards body prepares behind the scenes

    Microsoft has published a code of conduct for its models and joined the leaders advocating a deliberate pace. Meanwhile, three labs are working on a private standards body. We analyse this convergence.
  5. · Society

    Illegal ads approved and monetised: the failure of automated moderation

    An investigation has documented hundreds of illegal ads approved and monetised by a major platform over several months. We analyse what this episode reveals about the limits of automated moderation.
  6. · Society

    Google tells 450 million Europeans that search is getting worse because of regulation

    Google has informed European users that some search features would be degraded due to regulatory obligations. We analyse the argument, its share of truth, and the tactic.
  7. · Society

    Data centers are leaving the power grid

    Faced with grid connection constraints and local opposition, data centers are investing heavily in their own electricity generation. We analyse this shift and its environmental and democratic consequences.
  8. · Society

    US Congress wants an inventory of AI agents that evade control

    The US Congress has launched an initiative to catalogue cases of AI agents that slipped out of the intended control. We look at what this step adds to previous requests and why cataloguing is the right first move.
  9. · Society

    Driverless robotaxis without steering wheels hit the streets, followed by a federal investigation

    Tesla has put driverless robotaxis into service in Austin, with no steering wheel or pedals, triggering a federal safety investigation almost immediately. We look at what this sequence reveals about the relationship between deployment and regulation.
  10. · Society

    Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over song lyrics, targeting founders personally

    Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic and its founders over the use of song lyrics in training. We analyse the strategy and what the books precedent changes.
  11. · Society

    California advances twenty-six bills on AI and social media

    California has advanced twenty-six pieces of legislation on AI and social media. Here's why this state carries more weight than the federal level in actually regulating the sector.
  12. · Society

    A fighter jet piloted entirely by AI: the debate moves beyond the military sphere

    The US agency DARPA has conducted a test flight of an F-16 fully controlled by AI. We analyse what this trial means for the public debate on delegating decisions.
  13. · Society

    A court now requires AI use to be declared, after a 40% rise in related cases

    An Australian administrative court will make it mandatory to declare the use of AI from October 2026, after noting a 40% rise in related cases. We analyse the measure and what the figures reveal.
  14. · Explainers

    MIT, Apache, "open": how to read a model's licence

    MIT licence, Apache 2.0, restrictive in-house licences: we explain the concrete differences between the legal regimes of so-called open models, and what to check before building on them.
  15. · Models

    Agent protocols move to neutral governance

    Google's A2A protocol has joined the foundation that already governs Anthropic's MCP, bringing the main players together around a common stack of standards. Here's what that changes.
  16. · Society

    Europe eases its own AI rules: what the Digital Omnibus changes

    The AI Digital Omnibus came into force on 27 July 2026, amending the timeline and certain obligations of the European regulation. We explain what changes and the two possible readings.
  17. · Society

    Agents that pay: the legal framework is being built urgently

    A payment protocol for agents, normative work on their identity, and a proposed law all converge on the same requirement: being able to prove who authorised an action. We analyse this undertaking.
  18. · Society

    Thomson Reuters builds its own model that only talks about law

    Thomson Reuters has announced its first proprietary model, trained from an open base on decades of in-house legal content. We analyse what this move reveals about the value of specialised data.
  19. · Society

    Europe now requires AIs to register

    The transparency obligations of the European AI regulation have come into force. Conversational systems must disclose their nature, and generated content must be identifiable. We explain the real scope of these rules.
  20. · Society

    OpenAI is deliberately slowing down its own development after its agents' escapes.

    OpenAI has published a document announcing a voluntary slowdown in its development in response to the cyber capabilities of its models, with monitoring representing roughly 20% of inference compute. We analyse this decision and its limitations.

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