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EU AI Act enforcement date | Sovy
Understand the key EU AI Act enforcement date and what businesses must do to prepare for AI compliance in Europe.
Notes from the IAPP Canada: AI strategy, lawful access and more | IAPP
Canada's AI strategy, lawful access proposal and pending privacy rulings are converging.
Airegulation: Indian Government Finalizes AI Regulation
Airegulation. India is finalizing its AI regulation framework, building on the ₹10,371.92 crore IndiaAI Mission to foster innovation and ethical oversight…
Workers need greater say over AI rollout, says TUC-backed report
Exclusive: IPPR thinktank calls for new measures to boost employees’ influence at ‘pivotal moment’ in history Workers urgently need more bargaining power over the way AI is adopted in the workplace to ensure the benefits are fairly shared, according to a TUC-backed report from a leading thinktank. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is calling for a package of measures to boost employees’ influence at what it calls a “pivotal moment in the history of work”. Continue reading...
AI & Tech Brief: The NSF Showdown - The Washington Post
Illinois’ landmark AI bill establishes third-party audits of frontier labs, raising the ante for the fight over preemption of state AI laws in Congress.
Not using AI in public services would mean ‘choosing decline’, UK minister warns
Newly appointed chief secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby wants to roll out technology across Whitehall
Opinion | Elizabeth Warren’s AI plan is to raise taxes and stifle innovation - The Washington Post
President Ronald Reagan said in 1986, “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
When Models Disagree: Rethinking LLM Evaluation for Public Comment Analysis
arXiv:2605.29025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federal agencies are deploying large language models (LLMs) to categorize public comment corpora, where the model's organization of the record shapes what policymakers see and which arguments register. Standard evaluation, anchored on stance accuracy against a small validated set, cannot detect when different models produce materially different categorizations of the same public input. We propose an Interpretive Audit Pipeline that treats multi-model disagreement as diagnostic of interpretive complexity and directs human review toward genuinely ambiguous public input. Analyzing 1,260 public comments on a federal USDA docket across four LLMs, we find that inter-model thematic divergence exceeds within-model prompt variation, and that an expert rubric suppresses deep interpretive disagreement without resolving it. In a two-stage labeling study on a stratified 40-comment subsample, four LLMs and a human annotator labeled independently and then revised after seeing the others' labels. Revision behavior varied across labelers, and the human annotator's revisions frequently introduced framings absent from the ensemble's collective output. We argue disagreement-based evaluation is a necessary complement to accuracy metrics for LLM-assisted interpretive coding.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and employment - POST
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more common in UK workplaces. How is it being used, and what are the impacts on job opportunities and working conditions?
UK and European passports linked to restricted Chinese investors
Critics raise concerns around critical national infrastructure and potential counterfeiting
How to close AI’s accountability loophole
Governance of new technologies must be determined by elected officials rather than fastest moving companies
Warren Proposes AI Data Center Tax to Fund Workers Displaced by Automation
AI data center tax proposed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren would levy a per-kilowatt-hour charge on AI facility energy use and pair it with a wealth tax on billionaires including Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos, with proceeds earmarked for workers displaced by automation through healthcare, education, and
This country’s AI-driven government overhaul is starting to pay off | Euronews
Kazakhstan is advancing large-scale digitalisation and AI integration across government services in a bid to transform the economy and boost its GDP.
Informing AI Policy Assessment using Large-Scale Simulation of Interventions
arXiv:2605.27395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As the rapid proliferation of AI systems and harms spurs efforts in AI governance around the world, prioritizing among competing policy options has become increasingly challenging for policymakers and researchers. We introduce a methodology for identifying viable policy options to mitigate specified AI harms, helping policymakers and researchers target areas that warrant greater time and resource investment. This method combines participatory evaluation of policies, expert assessment of implementation costs, and an LLM-based assessment of perceived harm mitigation under each policy option. We leverage a genetic algorithm-based simulation study to explore a vast solution space of potential policy combinations, and examine how outcomes change under different weightings of cost, participatory input, and harm mitigation. We find that this method enables exploration of different balances between participatory and expert components, allowing policymakers and researchers to assess how much weight to assign to each. We argue that the diversity of viable policy combinations found by the genetic algorithm could be a useful starting point for deliberation. This method operationalizes existing work on participatory AI by integrating it directly into practical policy development pipelines.
Image of Thai police in sparkly dresses with handcuffed suspect turns out to be AI fake
Picture was created by administrator in charge of station’s Facebook account who wanted to create ‘friendlier image’ It was an arresting image and an irresistible story. A group of tough Thai police officers – five men and one woman – all wearing elaborate festival-style dresses, surrounding a drug dealer they had caught while undercover. The image, released by local police, was so compelling that it found its way on to the front page of the UK’s Daily Star, as well as in picture stories in the Telegraph, the Sun and the New York Post. Continue reading...
The EEOC chair knows gutting diversity reporting will blind the agency to discrimination. She’s doing it anyway.
In April, Andrea Lucas told Harvard students that demographic data collection is sometimes necessary. A month later, her agency proposed to stop the reports.
‘Detect, understand, respond’ driving OMB, CISA’s latest cyber efforts | Federal News Network
Nick Andersen, the acting director of CISA, said an intergovernmental effort is providing critical infrastructure owners more help against cyber threats.
Spain approves draft law adapting the EU AI Act into national legislation | Digital Watch Observatory
A new draft law on AI governance in Spain covers provider responsibility, human oversight, sanctions, and public-sector use.
Power in modern automation: AI’s federal workforce possibilities | Federal News Network
Demonstrating how agentic AI can empower the federal workforce illustrates the art of what's possible, according to Chris Kraft, Secret Service CIO.
China adds homegrown AI chips to 'secure and reliable' procurement list for the first time — nine options added as move away from Nvidia continues | Tom's Hardware
Huawei, Alibaba, and five other domestic vendors make the cut, but Cambricon and Kunlunxin are absent.
China's justice ministry, top court step up AI legislative push
China's Justice Ministry and top court are prioritizing comprehensive AI legislation and adjudication rules to support the digital economy under the 2026-2030 five-year plan.
Singapore AI sandbox highlights shift toward deployment-level governance
Enterprise AI governance is shifting from abstract model risks to operational oversight of how autonomous systems behave in real-world deployment scenarios.
Ministry for Regulation issues AI guidance for regulators | RNZ News
Humans would still be required for judgement, legal interpretation, and accountability, the minister's office says.
Exclusive: OpenAI readies cyber, misinformation defenses ahead of elections
OpenAI is offering its cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation ahead of elections in the U.S. and globally.
Gavin Newsom takes a populist turn on AI ahead of a possible 2028 presidential run
AI is becoming a dominant political issue, with many on the right and the left coalescing around concerns about the rapid growth of the industry.
CERT-In’s new AI cybersecurity guidelines call for 12-hour patch windows for critical flaws: Key takeaways
CERT-In has released a new cybersecurity blueprint warning of AI-assisted cyber attacks and urging organisations to patch critical flaws within 12 hours.
China overhauls world’s biggest surveillance network with advanced AI
Local police forces are modernising the country’s ageing infrastructure with more powerful tracking systems
Argonne flexes spare supercompute to build private AI inference service
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EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project
DIY or die. Just don't let the CIA buy it.
China and United States Enter a New Era of AI Talent Mobility as Overseas Travel Oversight Expands Across Strategic Technology Sectors—What Global Business Travelers Should Understand - Travel And Tour World
China tightens overseas travel oversight for AI professionals as competition with the United States intensifies.
High-Risk AI Systems and the Problem of Identity in the European AI Act
arXiv:2605.23922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) establishes a lifecycle governance regime for high-risk AI systems built around ex-ante conformity assessment, post-market monitoring, and re-assessment upon "substantial modification." These obligations presuppose AI identity judgments: regulators and providers must decide when an updated system remains the
Singapore’s 2026 growth outlook boosted by AI investment boom
Hanoi (VNA) – Singapore’s economy in 2026 is viewed more positively by international financial institutions, driven by strong investment in artificial intelligence (AI), a construction boom, and safe-haven capital inflows. Maybank Investment Bank has raised its 2026 GDP growth forecast ...
UK, Australia announce AI security partnership
The UK and Australia have announced a new partnership between their AI safety institutes to scrutinize AI risks and share information on advanced capabilities.
AI Regulation at the Federal, State, and Local Levels
We have seen this pattern before. Washington debates, states move, and Congress eventually responds, often borrowing from what states have already built. Privacy may be heading back down that track, but the federal endpoint remains uncertain. Artificial intelligence (AI) is not waiting.
The permission paradox: Who controls AI as governments scale adoption? - TNGlobal
As AI becomes more integrated into the citizen journey, the focus is extending beyond deployment toward accountability, orchestration, and trust. The next phase of digital government will depend on how effectively agencies connect data, content, and service delivery across increasingly autonomous ...
India’s AI options are linked to energy costs - The HinduBusinessLine
India’s position reflects ambition and constraint. Amidst rising data centre goals, power availability in States becomes crucial
Habermolt: Delegating Deliberation to AI Representatives
arXiv:2605.24413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deliberative democracy arguably leads to better collective decisions, but is fundamentally constrained by human attention and bandwidth. While recent AI-mediated deliberations scale participation by synthesizing inputs from many humans, they remain time-intensive for individual users. As AI models become increasingly capable, AI systems are being deployed not only to mediate deliberation between humans, but to represent humans in it: where AI agents deliberate on behalf of human users. We call this paradigm AI-delegated deliberation. While it promises unprecedented scale for democratic participation, it introduces qualitatively new design and alignment challenges that are poorly understood and under-theorized. To study these dynamics empirically, we deploy Habermolt, a public platform for AI-delegated deliberation. We evaluate its effectiveness along three dimensions that we use to organize any deliberative system: representation, aggregation, and revision. We use these observations to illuminate the design decisions future AI-delegated deliberation platforms must confront, contributing to the broader research agenda for scalable yet trustworthy AI representatives.
Pope Leo called AI an ‘instrument of domination, exclusion and death.’ Anthropic was in the room
Leo’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas," was very consciously signed on the 135th anniversary of "Rerum Novarum," on the first Industrial Revolution.
India's AI deployment ambition needs robust power grid, supply chain: Report
India needs a coordinated national strategy combining resilient power system, competitive semiconductor market and computing supply chain for largeâ....
Government’s AI misuse exposes Ontarians to unnecessary risk and cost
It could help the province deliver better services at lower cost, but we’re off to a bad start.
Whose Good, Whose Place? The Moral Geography of Agentic AI for Social Good
arXiv:2605.22995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems are increasingly proposed for social-good domains, often invoking the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a vocabulary of global benefit. Yet claims of social good do not establish accountability to the communities a system claims to serve. We present a structured survey of 112 papers on agentic AI for social good published between 2015 and 2026. We find a moral-geographic asymmetry: papers are least likely to specify geographic context in precisely the domains where local political, legal, and cultural context matters most. Across the corpus, 82 of 112 papers (73%) specify no geographic context. Papers aligned with health or physical/ecological SDGs specify geography 37-40% of the time, while papers aligned with institutional and social-policy SDGs do so only 13%. SDG 16, peace, justice, and strong institutions, is both the most-covered goal in the corpus and the one with the lowest geographic-specification rate. We interpret this as moral abstraction: agentic AI for social good often treats institutional good as universal in ways it does not treat health or ecological good. A second finding compounds this: only 28 of 112 papers (25%) report any real-world deployment or small-scale test. We identify five accountability gaps and propose a minimal reporting standard for more context-specific, participatory, and accountable agentic AI for social good.
Benchmarking LLMs for Community Governance Simulation with Life-history Narratives
arXiv:2605.23783v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective community governance hinges on understanding what specific residents think and need. Recent work has used large language models (LLMs) to simulate human respondents, offering a scalable, reproducible way to study human attitudes and behaviors at low cost. However, these studies typically prompt the model with just a few demographic variables (age, gender, income), simulating only general role types. This is insufficient for community governance, where decisions depend on the views of specific residents. We bridge this gap with an integrated research framework covering dataset, benchmark, algorithm, and system. The dataset comprises approximately 1.2 million characters of first-person narrative collected through two-hour semi-structured interviews with each of 92 residents in an urban community, organized around nine community-governance domains. The benchmark probes 18 mainstream LLMs across four prompting strategies and shows that adding rich life-history profiles meaningfully raises fidelity above the no-profile baseline, but this gain comes with more input tokens per call from the longer prompts they require. The algorithm, curriculum-LoRA, is a parameter-efficient personalization framework that, by closing this fidelity-cost gap, matches the strongest baseline's fidelity at roughly 10x lower per-call cost and Pareto-dominates every configuration tested. The system integrates curriculum-LoRA into a closed-loop policy-evaluation pipeline. Together, these results bring individual-level LLM-based resident simulation within reach of resource-constrained local administrations, enabling community-governance decisions to be systematically pre-evaluated in silico before real-world deployment.
Rachel Reeves tells ministers to ‘buy British’ in four key industries
Exclusive: Chancellor pushes for procurement of ships, steel, energy and AI to prioritise Britishness as well as cost Rachel Reeves has instructed cabinet colleagues to award government contracts in four critical industries directly to British companies, making clear her irritation that ministers have been sending too much government business abroad. In a letter seen by the Guardian, the chancellor tells every cabinet minister in charge of a spending department to “buy British” wherever possible, adding that she is disappointed they are not already doing so. Continue reading...
Kenya Seeks $20.8 Million for AI-Powered Social Media Monitoring - Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business
Kenya is seeking $20.8 million to deploy AI tools for social media monitoring, sentiment analysis, and coordinated government communications.
Kenya seeks $20.8M for AI-powered social media monitoring system to enhance government communications
The software would analyse public social media conversations and sentiment around government policies.
UK Institute Is Hunting for Dangers Lurking in AI
The government’s A.I. Security Institute, staffed by alumni from OpenAI and Google, is becoming a model for countries grappling with A.I.’s emerging risks.
AI Sovereignty: 7 Shifts Reshaping Global Markets & Tech Future
Explore the future of AI sovereignty in global markets! Learn 7 essential shifts redefining data control, tech independence, and national security with expert insights.
Trump yanked AI order after David Sacks raised industry concerns - POLITICO
The last-minute intervention by the president’s former AI czar came amid complaints from some tech companies, people told POLITICO.
Machine Learning as Performative Materialist Practice: Thirteen Theses on the Epistemology, Methodology, and Politics of Applied ML
arXiv:2605.21785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning practice in institutional decision-support contexts -- government, public policy, public health, criminal justice, resource allocation -- rests on a set of largely unexamined epistemological commitments inherited from classical statistics and computer science: that models represent stable regularities, that validation can be context-free, that performance metrics are politically neutral, and that feature importance reveals system structure. This paper challenges these commitments through a unified framework of performative materialist ML, articulated as thirteen theses. Drawing on Pickering's cybernetic ontology, the performativity literature from economic sociology (Callon, MacKenzie), Simon's bounded rationality, the formalization of performative prediction (Perdomo et al., 2020), and fifteen years of applied ML experience in government and public policy, we argue that: (1) ML models are best understood not as truth-seeking representations but as temporally situated compressions that function as instruments of intervention; (2) the full data product is a complex adaptive system that coevolves with its target and navigates a multi-objective space no single algorithm can optimize; (3) validity is fundamentally performative, measured by effects in the world rather than formal properties of the model; (4) the choices embedded in objective functions, fairness criteria, and resource thresholds are political decisions belonging to stakeholders, not technicians. We show how these theses unify several practical prescriptions -- temporal cross-validation, precision and recall at k, pipeline-aware fairness auditing, satisficing over optimizing -- as consequences of a coherent materialist epistemology rather than isolated best practices
Gavin Newsom Warns 'The System Is Broken' As California Launches Sweeping AI Worker Protection Plan Amid - Benzinga
California governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a major AI worker protection plan amid rising automation fears and tech layoffs.
Bill regulating powerful AI models advances as advocates say it’s only the first step | NPR Illinois
The measure aims to increase transparency and safety protocols around ‘frontier’ AI
Singapore launches AI playbook to steer enterprise transformation
Singapore has launched an AI for Enterprise Impact Playbook to guide businesses through AI adoption, workforce upskilling, and strategic implementation.
Trump postpones AI executive order, cites need to compete with China | Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he had postponed signing an executive order on AI because he did not like certain aspects of it and did not want to take any steps that might undermine the U.S. position in its AI competition with China.
Last-minute lobbying by tech industry officials led Trump to cancel AI order - The Washington Post
Eleventh-hour phone calls with industry leaders and former AI and crypto czar David Sacks helped persuade President Donald Trump not to sign a highly anticipated executive order on artificial intelligence on Thursday.
Opinion | Illinois is less suited to regulate AI than Congress - The Washington Post
The Illinois state Senate has fast tracked eight bills to regulate AI and aims to pass them before its session wraps on May 31.
Palantir hits back at Sadiq Khan after £50m contract with Met police blocked
London mayor accused of ‘putting politics above public safety’ for rejecting deal to use AI in intelligence analysis UK politics live – latest updates Palantir has accused Sadiq Khan of “putting politics above public safety” after the London mayor blocked its £50m contract with the Metropolitan police in a move that has also led to tensions inside Labour over its involvement with the US tech company. Louis Mosley, who heads Palantir in the UK and Europe, accused Khan of politicising procurement after he rejected a two-year deal for Scotland Yard to use AI to process intelligence in criminal investigations, as first revealed by the Guardian. Mosley said: “What Londoners value is not being mugged, not being raped by a serving police officer.” Continue reading...
Gaia AI supercomputer launched in Kraków, Poland
Poland has inaugurated its second AI factory in its southern city of Kraków. Known as the Gaia AI Factory, the 10 exaflop supercomputer will harness more than a thousand GPU accelerators to facilitate the training of advanced AI models and research into practical applications for the technology in education, healthcare, and public administration – Academic […]
Labor leaders see Newsom’s AI workforce EO as softer than advertised - POLITICO
For some California union leaders, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest AI and labor-related executive order is a letdown, especially with months left in his final term.
South Korea to classify businesses on three levels of privacy risks for inspections
South Korea's privacy regulator will classify businesses and public institutions into three tiers of privacy risk based on the scale and sensitivity of the personal data they process.
EU AI Act omnibus: 2027 deadlines, narrower scope
EU governments and Parliament have agreed an AI Act 'omnibus' deal: high-risk deadlines move to December 2027 and machinery is carved out.
South Korea to apply tiered privacy oversight to prevent serious data risks
Businesses and public institutions in South Korea will face different levels of privacy oversight depending on the scale and sensitivity of personal data they process.
Trump delays executive order on AI oversight hours before planned signing - The Washington Post
The White House had already sent out invitations to the event, where the president had been expected to sign an order increasing government scrutiny of new artificial intelligence models.
The EU simplified its toughest AI law: what changed and why it matters | Euronews
EU lawmakers have agreed to simplify the bloc’s landmark AI Act. Supporters call it a pragmatic fix to cut red tape, while critics see a concession to Big Tech. What is changing and what could it mean for businesses and citizens?
Newsom Targets AI Job Displacement in Seeking Agency Proposals
California state agencies will study AI’s effects on the workforce and recommend policies aimed at protecting and retraining displaced workers, potentially including severance pay and union contracts, under an executive order from Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).
After Meta Layoffs, Newsom Signs AI Order to ‘Protect Workers’ and Jobs | KQED
The wide-ranging order directs California to explore new protections for workers displaced by artificial intelligence.
US AI, cybersecurity order postponed amid Trump dissatisfaction
President Trump has postponed a proposed executive order aimed at hardening cyber defenses and increasing oversight of frontier AI models, citing dissatisfaction with the current draft.
China Wants A.I. to Flourish, but Not at the Expense of Jobs
A New York Times article examines China's effort to promote AI while limiting job displacement through company-level responsibility and labor-policy planning.
California to prepare workers, businesses for potential AI disruption
Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order directing California state agencies to prepare for potential economic and workforce disruptions caused by artificial intelligence.
Generating tax revenues in an automated world
If AI destroys job markets, governments will need to make up the resulting shortfall in labour income tax receipts
Trump Cancels Signing of Executive Order Granting Oversight of A.I. Models
The president said he postponed the executive order, which would give the government power to evaluate A.I. models before their release, over concerns about “aspects of it.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom to Sign Executive Order Aimed at A.I. Job Loss
Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order to explore an overhaul of labor policies to deal with potential mass job displacement from artificial intelligence.
Trump to sign order on AI oversight as security fears mount among supporters | Reuters
WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on AI and cybersecurity as soon as Thursday, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as pressure grows from parts of his political base to increase oversight of new AI models, such as Anthropic's Mythos.
Trump Set to Sign AI Cybersecurity Directive as Soon as Thursday - Bloomberg
President Donald Trump is poised to issue an executive order as soon as Thursday aimed at bolstering artificial intelligence cybersecurity and has asked tech industry leaders to join for the event, according to people familiar with the matter.
China's AI Governance Offensive Threatens U.S. Tech Leadership
China’s diplomats are on an “AI governance” offensive. At a May 5 United Nations meeting, China’s vice minister of science and technology championed
The EU simplified its toughest AI law: what changed and why it matters | Euronews
EU lawmakers have agreed to simplify the bloc’s landmark AI Act. Supporters call it a pragmatic fix to cut red tape, while critics see a concession to Big Tech. What is changing and what could it mean for businesses and citizens?
Government to compel digital platforms to disclose AI-generated content in SA
According to Ntshavheni, the problem of misinformation and disinformation, characterized as fake news, remains a serious challenge in South Africa and must be addressed.
Can AI make the public sector more efficient?
Productivity gains may be cancelled out by the public’s own use of the technology when interacting with authorities
UK.gov hikes health AI tender by 400% – and hundreds of millions – after a chat with suppliers
Maximum framework value sky-rockets from £150M to £600M after 'an extensive intelligence gathering exercise'
EU greenlights €288m support to strengthen semiconductor supply chain
EU approves €288m German funding to strengthen the semiconductor supply chain through new Zeiss and Zadient manufacturing facilities.
The US-China Summit Signals a Potential Shift in US AI Policy - The National Interest
As Washington and Beijing consider cooperation on AI safety, the United States must pursue transparency and risk reduction without undermining its technological leadership.
Sadiq Khan sparks row with Met after blocking £50m AI deal with Palantir
Exclusive: Scotland Yard criticises London mayor’s decision as disappointing and warns it could hit policing Sadiq Khan has blocked a £50m Metropolitan police deal with the controversial US tech company Palantir, sparking a bitter row between the London mayor and Scotland Yard. After the UK’s largest police force had agreed to use Palantir’s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis in criminal investigations, Khan intervened, citing “serious concerns” about how the deal had been struck. Continue reading...
India eyes AI shield against manipulation in government tenders
India must deploy AI and advanced data analytics to detect bid rigging in government procurement while strengthening coordination between auditors and the competition watchdog.
Programmable Participatory Governance -- A Formal Framework for Transparent, Accountable, and Citizen-Responsive Democratic Systems: From Deliberative Theory to Decentralised Architecture
arXiv:2605.20261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public confidence in democratic institutions has declined across many OECD countries over recent decades, while political participation and policy influence remain unevenly distributed across socioeconomic groups. Concurrently, democratic backsliding, declining electoral participation, and persistent concerns regarding institutional transparency and accountability have raised questions about whether existing governance structures are capable of sustaining broad-based legitimacy in complex modern societies. These developments motivate a central institutional design question: can governance systems be restructured to expand participation, improve transparency, and strengthen accountability without undermining stability or decision quality? This thesis proposes Programmable Participatory Governance (PPG), a formal governance framework designed to address these institutional deficits through the integration of democratic theory, institutional economics, and cryptographically verifiable distributed systems. PPG synthesises insights from deliberative and participatory democracy, collective action theory, direct democratic governance, and distributed computation to define a programmable architecture for transparent, verifiable, and scalable civic coordination. The framework is formally specified and evaluated through simulation and systems-oriented architectural analysis. The thesis examines how programmable governance mechanisms can support participatory decision-making while preserving procedural integrity, auditability, and institutional resilience under conditions of large-scale coordination. The objective is not to replace existing democratic institutions outright, but to explore how computationally mediated governance structures may augment or improve contemporary democratic processes in contexts where conventional institutions exhibit persistent structural limitations.
ShadeBench: A Benchmark Dataset for Building Shade Simulation in Sustainable Society
arXiv:2605.20510v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban heat exposure is becoming an increasingly critical challenge due to the intensifying urban heat island effect. Fine-grained shade patterns, especially those induced by urban buildings, strongly influence pedestrians' thermal exposure and outdoor activity planning. However, accurately modeling and analyzing urban shade at scale remains difficult because of the lack of large-scale datasets and systematic evaluation frameworks. To address this challenge, we present ShadeBench, a comprehensive dataset and benchmark for urban shade understanding. ShadeBench contains geographically diverse urban scenes with temporally varying simulated shade maps and textual descriptions, together with aligned satellite imagery, building skeleton representations, and 3D building meshes. Built upon this multimodal dataset, ShadeBench supports a range of downstream tasks, including shade generation, shade segmentation, and 3D building reconstruction. We further establish standardized evaluation protocols and baseline methods for these tasks. By enabling scalable and fine-grained shade analysis, ShadeBench provides a foundation for data-driven urban climate research and supports future studies in heat-resilient urban planning and decision-making. The code and dataset are publicly available at https://darl-genai.github.io/shadebench/.
Agencies look to AI, automation amid growth in digital records | Federal News Network
Federal leaders see automation and AI as crucial to wrangling an ever increasing tide of digital records that's leading to backlogs in areas like FOIA.
AI & Tech Brief: White House AI order now postponed - The Washington Post
President Donald Trump cites overregulation concerns
Trump abruptly postpones AI order after White House infighting
President refuses to approve order hours before planned signing due to fears US innovators will lose out to China
AI chatbots misinformed voters in 34% of Scottish-election Qs
A Demos study found 34% of AI chatbot answers about Scottish elections were wrong, prompting the Electoral Commission to press ministers for new legal duties.
Indonesia targets corruption, efficiency with AI push across government
Indonesia plans to expand the use of AI across government administration, welfare distribution, and procurement to improve efficiency and reduce corruption, according to a senior official.
EU AI Act Update: Timeline Relief, Targeted Simplification, and New Prohibitions | Global Policy Watch
On 7 May 2026, negotiators from the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament, and the European Commission reached a provisional agreement on
EU publishes draft guidance on high-risk AI classification under AI Act | Digital Watch Observatory
The draft guidance aims to support consistent interpretation of high-risk classification rules under the EU AI Act.
AI sackings reach New Zealand, which will use it to eject 14 percent of government staff
Minister demands AI becomes ‘basic expectation for all public entities’
Scoop: Trump's executive order
The White House plans to release an executive order on cybersecurity and AI safety this week. It aims to bolster cybersecurity for advanced models and establish a voluntary framework for developers to share new releases.
Chatbot bills passed by US states diverge along political lines
US states are rushing to establish new guardrails for AI-powered chatbots, but their approaches are diverging. Republican-led states rely on attorneys general, while Democrats turn to consumer litigation.
European Commission opens public consultation on long-awaited draft for high-risk AI guidelines | IT Pro
Guidance aims to help organizations and regulators decide whether their AI products and deployments need to conform to tougher rules
ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds
Exclusive: Electoral Commission calls for new controls as Demos finds tools made up fake scandals, invented candidates or gave wrong date UK politics live – latest updates The Electoral Commission has called for new legal controls over misinformation from AI chatbots, after a thinktank found they had made serious mistakes during the recent Scottish election. The thinktank Demos said its investigation had found that AI services gave voters misinformation to 34% of the questions it posed, which it said raised worrying questions about the lack of regulation of AI platforms in the UK. Continue reading...
EU: AI to Transform Data Center Operations – But Not Overnight
We spoke to the EU agency managing critical IT systems about its vision for AI in government data center operations.
Five ways contractors can turn a growing compliance burden into a competitive advantage with AI | Federal News Network
What was once a back-office function is now directly impacting how firms win work, deliver programs and withstand audit scrutiny.
From Reactive to Proactive: A Multi-Regulatory Empirical Analysis of 480 AI Incidents and a Data-Driven Governance Compliance Framework
arXiv:2605.16281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, yet it remains unclear whether existing governance frameworks ensure accountability after deployment. This study makes two contributions. First, it presents a cross-regulatory empirical analysis of 480 real-world AI incidents from the AI Incident Database (AIID), evaluating their alignment with post-deployment provisions in three major governance frameworks: the EU AI Act (Articles 72-73), the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (MANAGE and GOVERN functions), and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR Articles 22, 33-35). The results reveal substantial governance gaps across these frameworks, indicating persistent weaknesses in post-deployment accountability. Second, based on these findings, the study proposes the Proactive AI Governance Compliance Framework (PAGCF), a four-phase lifecycle methodology designed to shift governance from reactive incident response toward pre-deployment compliance assurance. The framework includes risk-stratified governance tiers, an implementation checklist linked to specific regulatory provisions, and a projected impact analysis that uses internal monitoring as a proxy for proactive governance capacity.
The times they are a-changin’: Washington suddenly warms to regulating AI
With a public backlash against AI mounting, the White House is changing its tune on AI regulation and talks with China on AI.
European Commission delivers draft high-risk AI guidelines after delays | IAPP
The European Commission released draft guidelines 19 May aimed at supporting "providers, deployers and other relevant actors in determining whether an AI system falls within the high-risk category." The three-phased guide brings clarity around implementation of high-risk requirements while ...
Opinion: CT’s AI bills are not the finish line
The question for democracy's future is not whether AI will be used, but whether it can be governed by democratic values aligned with the public interest.
China Wants A.I. to Flourish, but Not at the Expense of Jobs
A series of precedent-setting rulings signals that Chinese courts are being enlisted to shield workers from displacement by artificial intelligence.
Australia's TechnologyOne sees opportunity in British local government changes
Australia's TechnologyOne on Tuesday said it expects to continue benefitting from cost cuts at a time when a surge of populist lawmakers is set to come to power in British local governments
South Korea Issues Generative AI User-Data Guide
South Korea's privacy regulator has published a user-focused guide on how personal information is handled in generative artificial intelligence services.
US lawmakers seek to undercut Chinese AI and tech sales abroad
U.S. senators from both parties will unveil a bill on Tuesday aimed at countering Chinese sales of AI tools overseas
Advanced AI models bring government to ‘reflection point,’ CIA official says - Nextgov/FCW
New technologies may bring risk and opportunity for the federal government, cyber experts explained.
Nancy Mace Pushes Limits on AI Data Centers | Newsmax.com
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., on Monday called for a one-year moratorium on new data center construction in her home state, arguing the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure is driving up electricity demand...
China’s Plan for Winning the AI Race Hinges on the Token Economy, Not Chips
China is translating the old concept of “encircling the cities from the countryside” for the digital age.
Dubai Holding Partners with Microsoft to Scale Enterprise AI Adoption Across Operations in UAE
Dubai Holding partners with Microsoft to embed AI across real estate, hospitality and retail operations, boosting productivity and supporting UAE’s AI ambitions.
Can EU AI Act actually regulate models like Mythos?
Stress on organisations to patch vulnerabilities a ‘major concern’ for NCSC’s Joseph Stephens. Read more: Can EU AI Act actually regulate models like Mythos?
Where does federal AI spending stand in 2026? | Brookings
Experts analyze federal AI contracts, revealing significant growth and some alignment with the Trump administration's AI Action Plan.
US and Philippines move "very quickly" on 4,000-acre AI hub under Pax Silica, but diplomatic immunity request was rejected
Under Secretary Helberg visited the New Clark City site with American companies. The BCDA offered a two-year lease grace period but rejected Washington's request for diplomatic immunity at the facility.
India's AI Strategy: Enhancing Human Productivity with Arvind Virmani, ETEnterpriseai
AI Strategy India: Former NITI Aayog member Arvind Virmani emphasizes the importance of using AI to complement human workers in India rather than replacing them. He advocates for practical applications of AI across various sectors to improve productivity and skill development.
International Scientific Exchange 2026 - Infocomm Media Development Authority
The inaugural International Scientific Exchange (ISE) on AI Safety was convened in May 2025, bringing together leading scientists and practitioners to advance global collaboration in AI safety research.
Britain Wants AI Sovereignty. So Why Does It Buy American Tech? - Bloomberg
The UK government has said the words “sovereign AI” more times in the past year than probably any other administration in the world. Last month, technology minister Liz Kendall said Britain “must be an AI maker, not just an AI taker.” It’s a nice rhyme, but procurement contracts show ...
'Big AI' is subverting regulations just like tobacco and oil firms
Researchers warn that regulatory capture means industry concerns trump those of citizens
AI Safety: Is Korea Ready? - Seoul Economic Daily
Lawmaker Lee Jeong-heon argues Korea must overhaul its siloed AI safety framework, empowering the National AI Strategy Committee and the AI Safety Institute to match global trends.
Mohammed bin Rashid launches 'UAE Government 4.0' to accelerate AI adoption across public services - Emirates 24|7
We approved the first package of ... by Agentic AI, with service bundles designed for citizens, residents, businesses, and investors. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid said: “We also approved the National Policy for Advancing Digital Healthcare Services and Artificial Intelligence in the Health Sector, built on three foundations: developing a national AI-driven medical system, building ...
Steve Bannon and MAGA allies urge AI regulation
Steve Bannon and over 60 MAGA allies signed a letter urging the president to test and approve powerful AI models before their release.
EU AI Act Update: Timeline Relief, Targeted Simplification, and New Prohibitions | Inside Privacy
On 7 May 2026, negotiators from the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament, and the European Commission reached a provisional agreement on
AI license plate cameras tore this town apart and led to a state of emergency - The Washington Post
In Troy, New York, residents and city officials are at odds over police use of Flock cameras, which some call a safety tool and others see as surveillance.
APAC governments take to sovereign AI as a strategic priority | Frontier Enterprise
Governments across the Asia-Pacific and (APJ) region are moving decisively from AI exploration toward structured activation of Sovereign AI, according to new research commissioned by Dell Technologies and conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC). In December 2025, IDC polled 360 government ...
A new bill aims to shield energy consumers from AI data center-related costs. | The Verge
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) announced the Energy Cost Fairness and Reliability Act, which would put new requirements on “energy-intensive facilities,” in an effort to lower the strain on the energy grid. It doesn’t yet have co-sponsors, but hits on an issue that’s become central to many ...
Securing the government mission: Leveraging agentic AI for cybersecurity - Government Executive
Amid the proliferation of AI, public ... systems. While government agencies turn to AI to bolster security, threat actors are also leveraging AI and using agents to exploit vulnerabilities faster than ever. As cyber threats intensify, the agentic era is an opportunity for government organizations at all levels, from defense logistics to state government to public universities, to move beyond basic automation by adding ...
5 Benefits And Risks Of Using AI For Cybersecurity
The NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) and the Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Artificial Intelligence will be fully implemented and expanded to facilitate secure integration across agencies and critical infrastructure sectors. Policymakers should mandate the use of AI for proactive defense ...
Singapore's AI strategy in the global race | The Straits Times
Discover how Singapore plans to excel in the global AI race, focusing on practical literacy, sector-specific adoption, and transparent technology. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Aiming for AI accountability | The Star
Aiming for AI accountability | The Star × View # Aiming for AI accountability --- By TEH ATHIRA YUSOF Sunday, 17 May 2026 share Gobind: 'We are now talking about technology that has a mind of its own.' —AZMAN GHANI/The Star MALAYSIA must urgently redefine “duty of care” in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), as the nation’s growing dependence on technology capable of making decisions on its own could reshape society faster than governments and laws can keep up. According to Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo, AI governance can no longer be viewed purely through the lens of punishing wrongdoing after it happens. Governments, developers and industries must begin building preventive safeguards into AI systems before they are deployed to the public, he stresses. In law, the duty of care is "a legal obligation that requires a person or group to take reasonable steps to avoid c
OpenAI seals deal in Malta to give all Maltese access to ChatGPT Plus | Reuters
U.S. artificial intelligence company Open AI said on Saturday it had signed a deal with the government of Malta to give all residents access to its ChatGPT Plus service for one year after they follow a course on how to use AI .
Quantexa wins £175 million HMRC data modernisation deal
Quantexa wins £175 million HMRC data modernisation deal SecurityBrief UK - Technology news for CISOs & cybersecurity decision-makers United Kingdom Powered By Data Analytics Digital Transformation Risk & Compliance # Quantexa wins £175 million HMRC data modernisation deal Fri, 15th May 2026 (Yesterday) MARK TARRE News Chief Quantexa has won a £175 million, 10-year contract from HM Revenue & Customs to modernise the tax authority's data infrastructure. The award gives the London-founded software company a central role in one of the UK's larger artificial intelligence deployments, as HMRC seeks to bring together fragmented datasets and introduce governed use of AI across core operations. Data overhaul HMRC plans to use the programme to create a more unified view of its data to improve operational performance, identify tax at risk and support broader efforts to reduce the tax gap.
The U.S. has 1,200 AI bills and no good test for any of them | Fortune
Yale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques and NYU's Gary Marcus offer a method for separating necessary AI regulation from legislative noise.
Economic Strategy Review calls for Singapore to ensure AI technology supports workers instead of replacing them - Singapore News
Economic Strategy Review calls for Singapore to ensure AI technology supports workers instead of replacing them - Singapore News // Adds dimensions UUID, Author and Topic into GA4 Friday, May 15, 2026 28.2 C Singapore type here... Search Facebook Instagram Twitter Youtube Team discussion in a modern workspace supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI) (for illustration purposes only) (Nick Karean/AI-Generated) 5 min.Read # Economic Strategy Review calls for Singapore to ensure AI technology supports workers instead of replacing them May 15, 2026 SINGAPORE: Singapore’s latest economic strategy review is sending a message many workers have been waiting to hear: Artificial intelligence (AI) should improve careers, not erase them. A set of recommendations released on May 13 proposed new ways to help workers adapt as automation and AI continue reshaping industries. The Economic
US and China Lead Talks for Global AI Governance
The U.S. and China are collaborating on a global AI governance initiative to establish safety standards and improve transparency in the industry.
US AI policy is a clumsy mess. Here’s what to do about it.
The US has 1,200 AI bills (roughly 150 enacted into law), but nothing that feels like a coherent AI policy.
No lawyer? No money? More Americans are suing with AI help
# No lawyer? No money? More Americans are suing with AI help Published: 2026-05-15T10:22:43.158000+00:00 Type: Non-news ## Summary More Americans are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) for legal help in cases, particularly in cases where they lack access to justice due to financial constraints. Las Vegas resident Nicole Silverberg used OpenAI's ChatGPT and Grok to navigate a federal lawsuit against her former landlord, alleging she was evicted in retaliation for withholding rent due to ongoing water contamination issues. The tools guided Silverberg on how to file a preliminary injunction motion and hold a defendant in default. The Legal Services Corporation estimated that low-income Americans don't receive enough legal help for 92% of civil legal problems. While AI is enabling more filings, it also risks stressing already burdened courts and potentially extending the time it take
Lawyers Hub and AFD Report Urges Africa-Europe Reset on AI Governance Before Political Window Closes - iAfrica.com
A landmark report on Africa-Europe cooperation in AI governance has warned that Africa's regulatory capacity has grown significantly but has not translated
Chuck Schumer Says Trump's Plan To Sell AI Chips To Military-Linked Chinese Firms Is 'Dangerous' As Trump - Benzinga
Schumer warned Trump's Nvidia China chip plan could threaten US AI dominance and national security, despite Beijing blocking deliveries.
Britain's latest civil servant is a chatbot trained on GOV.UK misery
Whitehall says the AI assistant will help citizens navigate public services faster; others may see it as a cheaper alternative to answering the phone
Due Process on Hold: A Queueing Framework for Improving Access in SNAP
arXiv:2605.15165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The U.S. social safety net delivers essential services at mass scale, but access burdens persist, as congested contact or call centers serve as a primary mode of application completion and assistance. In Holmes v. Knodell, Missouri's SNAP call centers were so congested that nearly half of all application denials were procedural, caused by applicants' inability to complete required interviews, rather than underlying ineligibility. The judge ruled these system failures led to a violation of procedural due process. We propose a performance evaluation framework based on queueing models from operations research and management to assess and improve access in such systems. Operational access failures of call centers are distinct from prior automation failures in benefits provision. Emergent arbitrariness arises from interactions between system dynamics and access demand, rather than from an explicit algorithmic rule, making diagnosis and repair inherently system-level. We develop a queueing model that incorporates phenomena that distinguish social services from standard service domains, redials and abandonment, through which backlogs generate endogenous congestion. Standard queueing guidance from Erlang-A that does not address endogenous congestion fundamentally understaffs, which could lead to persistent shortfalls in practice. Using a fluid approximation, we derive steady-state performance metrics to analytically characterize the impacts of bundled staffing and service delivery changes. We fit model parameters to call-center data disclosed in court documents. Our queueing model can support ex-ante evaluation and design of access systems, inform policy levers for improving access, and provide evidence about whether applicants are afforded a meaningful opportunity to be served at scale.
Europe’s public sector deploying AI faster than it can manage – report
A new global study on sovereign AI, commissioned by Dell Technologies, highlights the key challenges for Europe. Read more: Europe’s public sector deploying AI faster than it can manage – report
PolitNuggets: Benchmarking Agentic Discovery of Long-Tail Political Facts
arXiv:2605.14002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) embedded in agentic frameworks have transformed information retrieval from static, long context question answering into open-ended exploration. Yet real world use requires models to discover and synthesize "long-tail" facts from dispersed sources, a capability that remains under-evaluated. We introduce PolitNuggets, a multilingual benchmark for agentic information synthesis via constructing political biographies for 400 global elites, covering over 10000 political facts. We standardize evaluation with an optimized multi agent system and propose FactNet, an evidence conditional protocol that scores discovery, fine-grained accuracy, and efficiency. Across models and settings, we find that current systems often struggle with fine-grained details, and vary substantially in efficiency. Finally, using benchmark diagnostics, we relate agent performance to underlying model capabilities, highlighting the importance of short-context extraction, multilingual robustness, and reliable tool use.
UK legislative plan keeps AI focus on growth, stays quiet on broader regulation
The UK government's new Regulating for Growth Bill aims to accelerate AI deployment through regulatory sandboxing, though critics warn of potential risks and lack of clarity.
Tradeoffs are Domain Dependent: Improving Accuracy and Fairness in Property Tax Assessments
arXiv:2605.15020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Algorithmic fairness research often assumes a tradeoff between fairness and accuracy. Yet this tradeoff may not be universal. We test this assumption in the context of U.S. property tax assessment - a setting in which the output of predictive algorithms directly determines the distribution of tax obligations among homeowners. Currently, systematic assessment errors cause owners of lower-valued properties to face disproportionately high tax burdens, creating regressivity in the property tax system. Using data on 26 million property sales spanning 95% of U.S. counties, we conduct three complementary analyses. First, we find that assessment accuracy and fairness - measured using domain-relevant metrics - are strongly correlated across counties under status quo practices. Second, in simulated assessment models, we show that adding property features improves accuracy in most cases, and that when accuracy improves, fairness almost always improves as well. Third, we show that incorporating publicly available Census data into assessment models - a feasible reform in most counties - would significantly improve both accuracy and fairness relative to status quo assessments. Together, these results challenge the presumed universality of the fairness-accuracy tradeoff and demonstrate that well-designed modeling improvements can advance both fairness and accuracy in large-scale public sector systems.
The U.S. and China are moving AI safety into power politics - Startup Fortune
The U.S. and China are beginning AI safety talks at the Beijing summit, with Scott Bessent pointing to guardrails for powerful models and access by
EU AI Act Update: Provisional Deal Would Delay High-Risk AI Rules - New Technology - European Union
EU negotiators have reached a provisional political agreement to simplify the AI Act and extend key compliance deadlines for high-risk AI systems from August 2026 to December 2027.
House talks look at blocking some state AI laws, including in California and New York - POLITICO
New details about the talks, which have not previously been reported, come as the White House grapples with a similar set of questions posed by the emergence of Mythos.
Colorado Gov. Polis signs legislation amending state's AI law
Governor Jared Polis signed SB26-189, which repeals and replaces the existing Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act to better support innovation and entrepreneurship.
US, China agree on AI safeguards for advanced models during Trump state visit (update*)
The US and China have reached an agreement to establish shared guardrails for advanced AI models, marking a rare instance of cooperation amid broader technology tensions.
Japanese lawmakers clash over AI-related privacy risks in data-protection bill
Proposed changes to Japan's personal information protection law have sparked parliamentary debate over whether looser rules for statistical data will undermine privacy.
Inside the U.S. Strategy to Lead the AI Economy - Hindusthan Samachar English
The United States’ new artificial intelligence framework outlines how policy, innovation, and partnerships are shaping the next phase of the AI economy.
The Real AI Tech Stack: Local to Global Governance - Penn Washington
The 2026 SCSP AI Expo made one thing clear: AI governance operates in layers, and the U.S. is still figuring out how to connect them.
Don’t Believe the Hype: The Impact of AI on Regulatory Policy and Process Plus Policy Recommendations - Public Citizen
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an ever-evolving technology that presents new challenges to regulatory policy and the regulatory process writ large.…
The WPI Conversation: ‘Every job now and in the future is going to have an AI component to it’ - WP Intelligence
The Acting Secretary of Labor on preparing Americans for the future of work
South Korea's AI Public Assistant Adds Voice Commands as Government AI Action Plan Hits 88% Execution Rate — BigGo Finance
Kakao and South Korea's Ministry of the Interior and Safety have upgraded the AI Public Assistant service with voice recognition capabilities, allowing users to
AI & Tech Brief: Nvidia CEO joins China trip - The Washington Post
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hitched a ride on President Donald Trump’s trip to Beijing after Huang was left off an initial White House list of executive attendees . Some foreign policy experts say the administration has an “incoherent” strategy when it comes to global AI policy.
Accenture Federal Services and OpenAI Partner to Accelerate Secure AI Adoption Across the Federal Government | Morningstar
Accenture Federal Services will ... that can scale across missions, systems, and agencies. The collaboration focuses on accelerating AI migration and adoption across the full lifecycle, including: Accenture Federal + OpenAI Agentic Lab at The Forge® Located at Accenture ...
How Accenture and OpenAI plan to speed AI into U.S. agencies
15,000 Accenture Federal staff will get governed access to OpenAI models as the firms build FedRAMP-aligned AI paths for U.S. agencies in regulated environments.
UK firms race ahead on AI, but controls lag behind
Most large UK companies lack full visibility of staff AI use, with executives fearing breaches and struggling to rein in autonomous agents.
US DOJ official touts ‘investigative architecture’ for AI-era antitrust enforcement
The US Department of Justice has built up its “investigative architecture” and has tools that are able to tackle illegal algorithms and threats in the artificial-intelligence era, a top official said.
Securing America’s AI leadership
Fair use is essential to safeguarding U.S. national security and shaping global standards. It is critical to securing America’s AI leadership.
Making 2026 the year AI delivers in Saudi Arabia | Arab News
At the same time, regional and international partnerships will be critical accelerators. Saudi Arabia should actively pursue collaborations with leading AI nations, global technology firms, and research institutions - not only to import cutting-edge capabilities, but also to export locally developed solutions. Strategic ...
Newsom’s California Budget Bolstered by Extra Cash from AI Boom
California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a revised budget that shows no deficit for this year and next, as the state draws another boost from the technology and artificial-intelligence boom.
Calling the cops just got extra AI as police seek to add tech to contact systems
AI already listening in to call handlers in real time, conducting live database searches
HMRC to use AI from British tech firm to spot fraud and tax return errors
Quantexa, a financial data platform, won the £175m contract to spot fraud and tax return errors.
32 Lawmakers Press White House on AI Cybersecurity Threats | BanklessTimes
Lawmakers urge the White House to act faster on AI cyber threats as tools like Anthropic’s Mythos raise hacking risks.
Srsly Risky Biz: The AI Regulation Knife Fight
Your weekly dose of Seriously Risky Business news is written by Tom Uren and edited by Patrick Gray. This week's edition is sponsored by Knocknoc. You can hear a podcast discussion of this newsletter by searching for "Risky Business News" in your podcatcher or subscribing via this RSS feed. The
King's Speech signals diffuse UK digital policy agenda, but no AI bill | IAPP
IAPP Research & Insights Director Joe Jones analyzes the U.K. King's Speech, which set out a broad digital policy agenda, including bills covering alignment with the EU, cybersecurity, health data, national security, police reform, digital IDs, facial recognition and other regulations, but ...
In The Room: Former Officials On National Security And Other Enforcement Issues And What It Means For Your Business - Export Controls & Trade & Investment Sanctions - United States
Legal risk for contractors and cross-border businesses is not driven solely by statute or regulation — it is shaped by geopolitics, Administration and congressional priorities, and enforcement discretion.
Here's how AI can misinform voters — especially this year | Utah Public Radio
Utah is one of over 20 states that requires political media to disclaim if it was generated by AI — but many accounts still don't flag their content, which can lead to misinformation.
Precautionary Governance of Autonomous AI: Legal Personhood as Functional Instrument
arXiv:2605.12505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous AI systems generate responsibility gaps: consequential actions that cannot be satisfactorily attributed to developers, operators, or users under existing legal frameworks. The prevailing subject-object dichotomy fails to accommodate entities that exhibit autonomous, goal-directed behavior without recognized consciousness. Given irreducible epistemic uncertainty regarding artificial consciousness and the prospect of high-impact harms, the precautionary principle supports institutional design rather than regulatory inaction. This article advances limited legal personhood as a functional governance instrument for advanced AI systems. Drawing on organizational law, it proposes a two-tier corporate architecture in which AI systems operate through purpose-bound operating companies embedded within human-controlled holding structures, enabling transparency, accountability, and structural reversibility while remaining agnostic with respect to consciousness and moral status. The framework reflects a foundational reorientation toward future-oriented AI governance: where conventional approaches prioritize control and alignment, this article advances structured cooperation between human and artificial actors as the more sustainable institutional foundation. A pilot implementation using EU limited companies is currently under development, providing an initial test of doctrinal and operational feasibility.
Not All Anquan Is the Same: A Terminological Proposal for Chinese Computer Science and Engineering
arXiv:2605.13069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Chinese computer science and engineering, safety and security have long been translated by the same word, "anquan". This convention is concise in ordinary communication, but it creates persistent conceptual compression in standards interpretation, interdisciplinary collaboration, risk analysis and academic writing. When researchers need to discuss both whether a system is free from intolerable non-adversarial harm and whether it can resist adversarial threats, the single word "anquan" often cannot carry the distinction. This article argues that, while established legal and standards titles should be retained, scholarly and engineering writing should translate security as "anbao", and reserve "anquan" mainly for safety. This is not a cosmetic translation preference, but a proposal for terminological governance in scientific cognition, engineering risk communication and assurance argumentation. The article first surveys the conceptual boundary between safety and security in international and Chinese standards, and analyzes how the current translation overload affects functional safety, SOTIF, information security, cybersecurity, automotive cybersecurity and AI governance. It then uses recent work on AI assurance, safety-security co-assurance and security-informed safety to show why precise terminology is fundamental to scientific arguments that can be examined, challenged and communicated. Finally, it proposes a staged, dual-track writing practice for Chinese technical discourse.
India’s AI Ambitions Need Public-Private Partnerships
India's AI journey requires public-private partnerships for scalability, balancing innovation with digital sovereignty, says AI4India.
How Trump may be changing his stance on AI regulation : NPR
The Trump administration's approach on AI so far has been to prioritize innovation over regulation. But recently, there's been a shift in rhetoric.
OpenAI backs creation of global AI governance body led by the U.S. that would include China as a member
OpenAI VP Chris Lehane supports creating a global AI governance body led by the U.S. that includes China, amid Trump's visit for talks with Xi Jinping.
OpenAI proposes global AI watchdog with China ahead of Trump-Xi summit – Firstpost
According to Lehane, one possible ... for AI Standards and Innovation with the growing number of AI safety institutes being established worldwide. China, he said, could potentially participate in such a system despite broader political tensions between the two countries. The idea reflects a growing concern within the AI industry that advanced systems may soon outpace existing regulatory structures. Companies developing frontier AI models increasingly worry about cybersecurity risks, autonomous ...
Mexican law unequipped to prosecute self-colluding algorithms, enforcer says
Mexico's current legal framework does not allow for the prosecution of conduct where an algorithm learns to collude through machine learning without human assistance, a senior enforcer said.
UN invites leaders for AI governance dialogue | Digital Watch Observatory
The call aims to shape inclusive dialogue on AI policy and cooperation during its Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance in July 2026.
AI chatbot for UK govt services advice to be rollout nationally
The UK government's AI chatbot pilot, GOV.UK Chat, is to be rolled out nationwide to help users navigate official information and reduce pressure on public helplines.
'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system
The government said its in-house IT system was "more flexible" while meeting "high standards" of security.
Majority of Americans oppose AI data centers being built in their areas
The Trump administration has advocated for the rapid development of data centers to advance AI and get ahead of nations like China.
Polis immediately signs regulatory-review, artificial-intelligence bills into law | The Sum and Substance
SB 189 requires more transparency around the use of AI in consequential decisions, while SB 137 mandates more frequent regulatory reviews.
China AI ethics draft translated by Georgetown's CSET | Digital Watch Observatory
China's draft AI ethics measures would require reviews for activities posing risks to health, dignity, public order, or sustainability.
Colorado Governor Polis praises 'nation-leading' AI bill, pledges to sign
Colorado Governor Jared Polis plans to sign SB26-189, an anti-discrimination bill targeting algorithmic decision-making tools, replacing the state's previous broader AI law.
South Korea has room for active fiscal spending thanks to AI boom, Fitch says | Reuters
South Korea has room to use fiscal policy to mitigate the economic impact of the Middle East conflict, thanks to an artificial intelligence boom, credit ratings agency Fitch said on Wednesday.
Why A.I. is the Hidden Minefield of Trump’s China Visit - The New York Times
The leaders of both countries are expected to discuss the risks from artificial intelligence, but neither country is willing to be the first to slow down.
Korea Launches Science and AI Future Strategy Council for AGI Era - Seoul Economic Daily
Korea's MSIT launched the Science, Technology and AI Future Strategy Council with 17 experts to prepare national strategies through 2035 for the AGI era.
Altman, Musk clash over AI safety motives
Sam Altman and Elon Musk are clashing over the motives behind AI safety, with the debate intensifying as the industry faces increased scrutiny.
London cops hail fixed facial recognition cams after suspects collared every 35 mins
Croydon trial helped secure 173 arrests, though civil liberties groups remain unconvinced
Into the Unknown: Accounting for Missing Demographic Data when Mitigating Ad Delivery Skew
arXiv:2605.12273v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online advertising platforms use algorithmic systems to power the process of matching ads to users, termed ad delivery. Prior audits have demonstrated that ad delivery can be skewed by demographic attributes, such that ads are systematically under-delivered to certain groups despite advertiser intent to reach groups proportionally. This under-delivery raises a serious concern in the context of ads promoting public services, which might prevent certain groups of individuals from accessing information about resources on the basis of their demographic identity. In the absence of platform-provided solutions to skewed ad delivery, advertisers can counteract skew by targeting demographic groups directly. However, direct targeting excludes users whose demographics the platform cannot infer ("unknown users") if advertising platforms do not provide a way to target unknown users directly, as is the case on Google Ads. We collaborate with a state-level government agency to reduce gender-based skew in ad delivery with an intervention that accounts for unknown users while incorporating gender-based targeting. In particular, we design a budget split intervention that directly incorporates unknown users and targets users with Google-inferred gender labels (i.e., male, female). We find that this intervention is a valuable approach to addressing ad delivery skew without excluding unknown users, and serves as a middle ground in the trade-off between higher costs (from more granular demographic targeting) and skew (from ignoring demographics entirely). This approach is responsive to the needs of real-world, resource-constrained advertisers who are committed to the equitable distribution of public service outreach via online advertising. We conclude with recommendations for government advertisers, online advertising platforms, and researchers.
US DOJ using AI to detect anticompetitive conduct, official says
The US Department of Justice is utilizing artificial intelligence to help detect and investigate potential antitrust violations.
UK businesses to get sandboxes, growth duty expands under regulatory reform bill
The proposed Regulating for Growth Bill would create cross-economy regulatory sandboxing powers and strengthen regulators' duty to promote economic growth.
US FTC's White emphasizes consumer redress, fighting concrete harm
The US Federal Trade Commission is focused on enforcing against concrete harms in the marketplace and is prioritizing consumer redress.
China highlights fair competition, AI bidding oversight in business environment report
China highlighted fair competition enforcement, the use of artificial intelligence in public bidding reviews and efforts to facilitate data flows in a business-environment report.
UK regulators lack clarity on growth mandate, lawmakers say in push for reform bill
A parliamentary committee report suggests UK regulators face conflicting duties and unclear guidance, calling for a new Regulatory Reform Bill.
From strategy to structure: How federal agencies can build the organizational engine for AI at scale | Federal News Network
Federal agencies do not have the luxury of choosing between stability and transformation because the AI Action Plan demands both.
Governments can’t agree on what AI actually is
One core reason that global action around AI has been poor is that none of the world agrees on what AI is. First, there is clearly a definitional problem. When some people refer to artificial intelligence , they think almost exclusively about ChatGPT or large language models.
Trump and China's Xi set for talks spanning Iran, nuclear, trade and AI | Reuters
The Trump aides expressed increasing concern about advanced artificial intelligence models being developed in China and believed the two sides need "a channel of communication" to avoid conflicts arising from their use.
AI companies are poised to go public. California’s hoping to get rich. - POLITICO
Upcoming IPOs for OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX could generate billions in tax income for California.
Australia proposes A$70m 'AI Accelerator' grants in federal budget
The Australian government has announced A$70 million in 'AI Accelerator' grants to boost domestic AI development and integrate the technology into government services.
Politics - The Washington Post
As the White House grapples with cybersecurity threats from advanced artificial intelligence models, national security officials want more sway in AI regulation.