The laws and regulators shaping the technology industry.
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.
City Labs' BOHR reached orbit this week carrying a tritium battery decades old in principle. What's actually new is a piece of paper — and the paper may be worth more than the payload.
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.
The stake is worth about $42 billion on paper. The price that isn't on the paper is a regulator that becomes a shareholder in the company it regulates — and a valuation that only holds while no one is allowed to bid on it.
Elon Musk says his newest model rivals the best in the world. The test that would settle it is being run by the company that owns the model — and that is starting to look less like an exception than a direction.
Four senators from both parties agree the CREATE AI Act should make NAIRR permanent. Treating that quiet consensus as proof the loud AI fights are just as solvable would be a category error of its own.
An app where Meta's own model writes the bets and rules on the winner — no human, no appeal. What the fake currency buys is time before the regulator arrives.
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 robotaxi recall is being read as a safety story. It's something more important: a quiet answer to the only question that matters about autonomous systems — who decides when they're fixed.
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.
OpenAI caught China-linked accounts amplifying America's data-center backlash. The comfortable lesson is that the backlash is manufactured. Learn that lesson and you lose both the information fight and the siting fight.
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.
