South Australia is launching an AI royal commission to examine how the technology is reshaping work, public services, and the economy. Businesses should expect greater scrutiny of AI governance, privacy, workforce use, and accountability as separate federal standards and privacy rules move forward.

ChatGPT Search and Roblox could face stricter EU oversight, audits, and transparency rules under the Digital Services Act.

China and 28 other countries have established WAICO, a Shanghai-based AI governance body that excludes the US and many Western nations.

China’s new AI companion rules restrict emotional dependency, require crisis protections, and impose safeguards for children and user data.

Twenty-six current and former Meta employees allege AI-assisted productivity metrics unfairly influenced layoff decisions affecting workers on protected leave. Meta denies the claims.

Trump signed two quantum executive orders setting a 2028 computing target and a 2031 federal post-quantum encryption deadline.

Anthropic’s clash with Washington over Claude, Mythos, export controls, and military AI shows how fast frontier AI oversight is changing.

Trump officials reportedly discussed AI equity stakes, raising new questions about frontier model access, regulation, and open-source AI.

Europe’s AI sovereignty debate takes center stage at G7 and VivaTech as leaders weigh dependence on US models, cloud, and chips.

Anthropic is pushing back on US restrictions on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 as cybersecurity experts warn the move could hurt defenders and AI access.

Anthropic disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a US export-control directive, raising new questions about AI access and governance.

The EU published a voluntary Code of Practice to help companies label AI-generated content and deepfakes before the AI Act rules apply in August 2026.

OpenAI faces a 42-state subpoena over ChatGPT safety, data practices, user engagement, and chatbot sycophancy. Here’s what’s at stake.

A senior Android security leader resigned from Google, citing concerns over its Pentagon AI work, climate commitments, and internal transparency.

Elon Musk’s AI ecosystem spans xAI, Tesla, X, Neuralink, and SpaceX, connecting chatbots, robots, brain implants, and spacecraft.

Pentagon blacklist names Alibaba, Baidu, and Unitree as Chinese military companies, cutting the AI and robotics firms off from US defense contracts.