Policy & Regulation

The Trump administration's 90-day clock runs out on March 11, forcing the FTC to declare how consumer protection law applies to AI and the Commerce Department to flag state AI laws for potential DOJ litigation.

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI pledge to fund their own power generation for AI data centers, but experts question enforceability as moratorium bills spread across U.S. states.

Consumer backlash follows OpenAI's DoD agreement; Claude climbs to No. 1 on U.S. App Store as QuitGPT campaign claims 1.5 million participants.

The Federal Trade Commission has filed a notice of appeal in its landmark antitrust case against Meta, challenging a November 2025 ruling that found the company is not a social media monopolist because it faces competition from TikTok and YouTube.

Dario Amodei rejected the Pentagon's 'final offer' on Claude's military use, triggering a supply chain risk designation and government-wide ban. Hours later, OpenAI struck a rival deal with identical safety principles—accepting the same terms Washington called unacceptable from Anthropic.

The U.S. and Israel launched coordinated strikes on Iran on February 28, 2026, targeting military and nuclear infrastructure across multiple cities.

As the Commerce Department's 90-day deadline approaches, a constitutional confrontation over AI governance is taking shape between the White House and state legislatures across the country.

The EU Commission's Digital Omnibus proposes narrowing GDPR's personal data definition and delaying AI Act high-risk rules by 16 months. Official data protection authorities and privacy groups are opposing the changes.

A dispute over AI guardrails for military use has put Anthropic's $200M Pentagon contract at risk, exposing a systemic tension between AI safety commitments and national security demands.

Britain closes a legal loophole to bring AI chatbots under the Online Safety Act after Grok's non-consensual image scandal, with penalties reaching 10% of global revenue and a broader consultation on banning social media for under-16s.

Discord will default all users to a teen-appropriate experience in early March, gating adult features behind facial age estimation or government ID verification.

The European Commission must decide by February 10 whether to approve Google's largest-ever acquisition or open a deeper probe, in a case that could reshape cloud security competition worldwide.