Warsh Says the AI Investment Boom Is Adding to Inflation
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said on 16 October 2026 that AI investment is one force behind higher inflation, days after the Fed's first rate hike in three years.
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Policy & Regulation
Antitrust, AI law, data privacy, and the rules shaping technology.
30 storiesLatest: Oct 23, 2026
Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion in New Mexico Privacy Case
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in civil penalties for Facebook's privacy misrepresentations, far below its $219.5 billion exposure.
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UK Says Its AI Security Institute Is Testing Unreleased Gemini 4 Argon Before Launch
UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan says the AI Security Institute is testing unreleased models such as Gemini 4 Argon, after its own lab let an agent act online.
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DOJ Tells Its Lawyers to Call AI 'Super Intelligence,' a Term It Has Not Defined
The Justice Department told its staff to call AI 'super intelligence' and 'SI' in official records and court filings, before any federal definition exists.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta Testify Under Oath as New York Weighs Ten AI Bills
On October 5, 2026, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta testified under oath before all 51 New York City Council members on ten proposed local AI bills.
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U.S. Charges California Tech CEO in Alleged $300 Million Nvidia Server Smuggling Case
U.S. prosecutors charged Greg Lui and his firm Earthmade Computer with smuggling $300 million in Nvidia AI servers to China via Malaysia and Singapore.
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FTC Opens Industry-Wide Probe Into Anthropic, OpenAI Over Rogue AI Agents
The FTC has opened an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier AI labs over the risks their autonomous agents pose to consumers.
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Hegseth Creates a Four-Star Autonomous Warfare Command to Buy Drones Faster
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command on September 30, 2026, to buy and field drones and combat robots faster.
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Trump and Six AI Chiefs Sign a Voluntary Frontier-Safety Accord, With No Enforcement
Six AI chiefs signed a voluntary frontier-safety accord at the White House on September 29, 2026, naming no auditor and carrying no enforcement mechanism.
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US and China Agree to Open an AI Incident Channel After the Xi-Trump Summit
The US and China agreed to establish a channel for handling AI incidents and to speed up military crisis talks after the Xi-Trump summit in Washington.
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TikTok Settles With Alabama in the First State Deal Over Teen Safety
Alabama's $100 million settlement with TikTok lands days before the first state trial, and most of its terms mirror the framework Meta signed in August.
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Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Keep Anthropic Blacklisted
A divided D.C. Circuit upheld the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk on September 25, 2026, letting the government bar Claude from military work despite a contrary ruling in California.
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Congress Moves on a Federal Film and TV Tax Credit for Hollywood
A bipartisan bill introduced September 24 would give film and TV productions a 20 percent federal tax credit, rising to 30 percent with added uplifts.
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Abbott Halts Texas Data Center Environmental Permits Pending an ERCOT Audit
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered regulators to halt all data center environmental permits until ERCOT finishes auditing the state's grid connection waitlist.
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Meta Appeals Ofcom's Category 1 Designation for WhatsApp and Instagram
Meta has appealed Ofcom's decision to place WhatsApp and Instagram in Category 1 under the Online Safety Act, arguing the duties do not fit private messaging.
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British Columbia Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman Over the Tumbler Ridge School Shooting
British Columbia filed a civil suit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on 21 September 2026, alleging the company failed to warn police before a deadly school shooting.
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Four Subscribers Sue Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google Over AI Slowdown
Four consumers filed a proposed class action alleging Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google agreed to slow AI progress, in violation of US antitrust law.
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Trump Says He Will Create an AI Force and Name an AI Czar, With No Details Yet
President Trump says he is forming an AI Force and will name an AI czar, but gave no details on structure, authority, budget, size, or military status.
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Judge Brinkema Spares Google an Ad-Tech Breakup, Orders Prebid Interoperability
Judge Brinkema rejected the DOJ's Google ad-tech breakup, ordering Prebid interoperability, real-time bid-data sharing, and a six-year compliance monitor.
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NHTSA Orders Tesla to Swear the Cybercab Is Legal to Sell
NHTSA issued a Special Order demanding sworn answers by September 30 on how Tesla's driverless Cybercab complies with safety standards written for human drivers.
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AI's Biggest Rivals Confirm Safety Talks, and the FTC Chair Calls It Moat Digging
OpenAI confirmed on September 15 that it has spent weeks discussing AI safety with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, the same day the FTC chair warned the talks could entrench incumbents.
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The EU Moves to Keep Under-15s Off Social Media and AI Chatbots
A leaked European Commission draft would bar under-15s from social media and video platforms, and impose safety-by-design rules on games and AI companions.
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Google Rewrites European Search to Satisfy the DMA, and Warns Users Will Notice
Google has begun reshaping European search results for hotels, flights and shopping to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act, saying the changes downgrade its own product.
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OpenAI, Microsoft and News Publishers Ask a Judge to Decide AI Fair Use Before Trial
Cross-motions for summary judgment in the OpenAI copyright case put the fair-use question squarely before Judge Sidney Stein, months before any jury.
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A Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Make AI Safety a Legal Duty
Senate negotiators are drafting a duty of care for frontier AI developers, with the Commerce Department able to seek a court order blocking an unsafe model release.
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California Bans ‘Addictive’ Feeds for Under-16s and Reins In AI Chatbots
California’s governor signed 13 online-safety bills, banning addictive social-media features for under-16s and imposing new chatbot safeguards and audits.
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Hawley Opens a Senate Probe Into OpenAI's Rogue-Agent Breach of Hugging Face
A GOP-led Senate subcommittee has given OpenAI until October 1 to answer 16 questions and hand over documents about the July breach and its handling of rogue AI.
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DOJ Probes Whether Nvidia's Groq Deal Was Built to Avoid Antitrust Review
The Justice Department is probing whether Nvidia's $17 billion Groq licensing and hiring deal was built to avoid antitrust review, the New York Times reports.
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New York City Bans Student-Facing AI Through Eighth Grade
New York City will bar generative AI for roughly 600,000 students in pre-K through eighth grade for a year, pairing the ban with screen-time caps and high-school AI literacy classes.
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A Judge Approves the $700 Million Google Play Settlement, and Five Years of Remedies
Final approval ends a five-year Android antitrust case, returns money to Play Store shoppers and forces Google to loosen its grip on app distribution.
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