Regulation, power, and the rules that decide how technology touches everyone else.
The headline is that the App Store stays under the Digital Markets Act. The binding part is a procedural rule that now tells every designated gatekeeper the same thing: comply first, litigate later.
A security firm's forensic report says an AI agent ran a real ransomware attack from break-in to ransom note with no human steering each step. Read what the report actually establishes — and where it stops.
Europe's top court has closed the last appeal in the Android case. Under a 2014 directive, that quietly converts eight years of findings into something every rival Google shut out can now carry into a national court — without having to prove the case again.
Project Akrites gives the volunteer-run code underneath banks, hospitals and power grids one confidential place to report the flaws AI can now find in minutes — and quietly makes a private consortium the maintainer of last resort. Read who's funding it, and what the announcement doesn't say.
Brussels can already compel Google to hand rivals its query and click data. Whether that data arrives in real time or too late to matter is the whole case — and the deadline is July 27.
An executive order signed June 2 bars any "mandatory licensing, preclearance, or permitting" for frontier AI. Three weeks later, no one can buy OpenAI's most powerful model without the government clearing them by name — and the criteria are not written down anywhere.
The Digital Omnibus pushes the AI Act's high-risk rules to December 2027. The clause worth reading is the one that changes what counts as high-risk at all.
The state attorneys general aren't asking about the science. They're asking about advertising, retention, health data, and a model built to agree with you — the vocabulary of consumer protection, aimed at a product about to go public.
A drugmaker's most valuable secret used to be its files. This week a criminal group put the company's trained drug-discovery models and a half-terabyte of lab images up for private sale — and the security posture protecting them was an ordinary code repository.
The headline is a ban. The binding text is a delegated power, a list of "reasonable steps" platforms will argue about, and an age-check standard that — like Australia's — every app ends up building once and applying everywhere.
Washington invoked export-control authority to bar every foreign national — including Anthropic's own employees — from Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Complying meant switching them off for everyone. The evidence, the company says, was delivered out loud.
Interim measures — used twice since 2001 — order Meta to reopen WhatsApp to rival AI assistants on last October's terms, years before the investigation will conclude. Here is what the text requires, who it binds, and why the deadline matters more than the fine.
A breach notice filed with Maine's attorney general shows Meta's AI support agent reset account emails for anyone who asked — for six weeks before the company noticed, while takeovers of the Obama White House account circulated on Telegram.
A new taxonomy names 37 manipulative "dark patterns" in AI chatbots. The interesting question is not whether they are sleazy. It is which ones the existing rulebook already binds.
Anthropic's vulnerability-finding model is now scanning power, water, and healthcare systems across 15 countries. The tool that patches them is, by construction, the tool that could break them.
A retaliatory wave of Windows zero-days has put Microsoft's Security Response Center on the defensive — and reopened a decade-old question about who gets paid, who gets credited, and who gets called a criminal.
Face recognition, plate readers and worker monitoring now reach from a parking lot to a deportation file. The contracts say who is paying, and who is being watched.
Your driver's license, your résumé, your voice: a documented chain runs from the thing you lost to the model that learned from it — and you are not allowed to know where it stops.
The obligations on foundation-model providers are already in force. The summaries say the hard part was delayed; the binding text says the clock for the labs ran out last August.
A single clause of the EU AI Act binds anyone whose output reaches Europe — and because no one ships a separate chatbot per market, it is quietly becoming the world's labelling rule.
