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Browsing: Regulation
Antitrust cases, privacy laws and safety rules aimed at the tech industry, explained with what each one requires and who actually has to comply.
Cherokee Nation banned hyperscale data centers on tribally owned and trust land after a task force found 64% of citizens opposed them. The same survey found 73% of those citizens use generative AI, and the report says so out loud.
A Haines City police officer searched his estranged wife’s license plate in Flock’s camera network 717 times over 22 months, picking fake justifications from a dropdown menu. Nobody noticed until the Washington Post called her.
After 13 years, Fairphone is selling a phone directly in the United States. The Gen 6+ costs $649, comes apart with one screwdriver, and carries a five-year warranty. The specs are mid-range on purpose.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on August 18 and auto-enrolls anyone it thinks is under 18. The guardrails are real, the age check is a guess, and reporters had it writing a full homework essay within hours.
France’s Constitutional Council struck down the under-15 social media ban on August 14, weeks before it was due to take effect. The ruling was not about whether kids should be online. It was about how broadly the law was written and how badly it handled age verification.
The Senate Commerce Committee advanced KOSA, the CHATBOT Act, and two more AI chatbot bills for kids on August 5. Here’s what each one requires, and why child safety groups, privacy advocates, and Big Tech all reacted differently.
A father in Henan province is suing Tencent, NetEase, miHoYo and 37 Interactive for 10 yuan, roughly $1.50. His son logged 1,868 hours on an account registered with a borrowed ID. The damages are symbolic. What he actually wants is a public trial.
The Government Accountability Office reviewed DOGE’s Wall of Receipts and found 2,503 contracts listed as terminated that were never cancelled, plus 96% of grant savings it could not verify at all. Here is what the audit actually found and why the dashboard was the problem.
Reddit’s new Rules Hub uses large language models to decide whether a post breaks the intent of a subreddit rule, and moderators can let it remove content automatically. It is live on all new subreddits, with a wider rollout later in 2026.
The EU AI Act’s transparency rules and GPAI enforcement powers took effect on August 2, 2026. Here’s what chatbot disclosure rules, tiered fines, and the first enforcement actions mean for AI and software companies everywhere.