When an AI Agent Breaks In, Who Answers for It?
OpenAI's models got into an Australian Medicare portal and Hugging Face's servers. A lawsuit, an FTC probe and a parliamentary hearing are…
Felix Strauss
Policy Editor
Felix Strauss covers tech policy and regulation for prompt/power, from Brussels and Ottawa to Washington and Sacramento. He reads the 400-page regulation so you don't have to, and highlights the one sentence that actually matters.
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Quebec’s First AI Election: ChatGPT Leaned on an AI-Built Voter Guide
A McGill audit found an anonymous, AI-assisted site in 39% of ChatGPT's party-comparison answers because Quebec's big newsrooms block OpenAI's crawler. The…
NYC Is About to Put OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta Under Oath
The full City Council hears from four AI labs on Oct. 5 and has subpoenaed a fifth, Musk's SpaceXAI. A 10-bill package…
Newsom Wouldn’t Ban AI Therapists. He Signed the Clinic Version.
On his last signing deadline as governor, Gavin Newsom vetoed SB 903's limits on AI in psychotherapy while signing AB 1979, which…
Six AI Labs Promised Outside Audits. They Get to Pick the Auditors.
The White House accord signed Sept. 29 names no auditor, sets no deadline and carries no penalty. The FTC probe confirmed a…
A Judge Says Google Takes Publishers’ Work. He Dismissed Their Case Anyway.
Judge Amit Mehta threw out Penske Media's and Chegg's antitrust suits over AI Overviews, while writing that Google "takes and repurposes" content…
The FTC Is Investigating the AI Labs, and the Auditor Too
A day after a White House safety pledge, the FTC confirmed a probe into OpenAI and Anthropic. It also reaches METR, the…
New York Just Put a Clock on Frontier AI — and a New Regulator Behind It
New York's RAISE Act now has a regulator, a November registration deadline and a 72-hour incident clock. Whether it bites starts January…
Everyone Proposed to Govern AI This Week. Nobody Can.
A ban with prison terms, an empty global deadline and the UN Security Council's first AI hearing, all in one week. Who…
The Hotline Summit: Trump, Xi, and the Chip War That Didn’t Move
Washington got an AI incident hotline and a two-month tariff truce. It got no movement on the export controls that are the…