Legislation, enforcement and the politics behind Europe's digital rulebook, from the AI Act to platform regulation.
Two recent California laws show that policymakers can address legitimate safety concerns without crushing decentralized software development, but only if they understand how open systems actually work.
The AI safety company has disrupted a cyber-espionage campaign by Midnight Blizzard that leveraged Claude to reverse-engineer military drone systems and automate attack workflows across government and defense organizations.
A Human Rights Watch investigator found that Facebook and TikTok's recommendation systems are amplifying content from armed groups, turning recruitment from a rural coercion tactic into a digital operation targeting vulnerable youth.
As AI agents proliferate across the internet, policymakers face a fundamental question: how to preserve human agency when autonomous software increasingly acts on our behalf. A new architectural layer is needed to ensure delegation remains visible, permissions meaningful, and accountability clear.
The ePrivacy Directive protects something deeper than data handling: it guards access to devices and communications themselves. As commercial and state surveillance systems converge, this boundary is under pressure.
A study of 56 experts across 24 countries reveals that large language models are being deployed far more ambitiously in the Global South than in wealthy nations, creating both significant opportunities and serious risks that current testing practices fail to capture.
As states and courts mandate age verification for social media, New York's implementation framework provides an early model for how to govern these systems. Yet gaps remain in how to balance safety with access and transparency.
The European Commission plans to unveil an age-verification system for social media restrictions, but technical analysis reveals the proposed tool fails to deliver on its promises of privacy protection and readiness.