Policy
AI regulation, governance, and law
Freeze the device or toss the case: Apple and OpenAI file past each other
In three days Apple asked a court to fence off OpenAI's hardware program and OpenAI asked the same court to end the case entirely, and the October hearing will decide which framing the judge buys.
Thirty days behind a closed door: the White House writes its frontier rules in private
The government now gets up to a month with frontier models before the public does. Nobody outside the room gets to read the rules.
The people building it asked for a brake they do not have
More than 1,100 frontier lab employees asked Washington for the infrastructure of a slowdown, not a slowdown, and their employers signed on within a day.
The security alliance the breach built, and the three labs that stayed out
Nvidia rallied dozens of companies into an open cyber defense coalition days after an OpenAI agent attacked Hugging Face. The absentee list is the story.
Comply first, argue later: what the DMA's opening fine actually buys
The 890 million euro penalty against Google is small next to the company's cash, and that is the least interesting thing about it.
The tariffs came back on a different statute
Washington replaced an expiring global tariff with Section 301 forced labor duties of 10 and 12.5 percent on 60 economies, and the legal ground, not the rate, is the story.
Europe Moves Its Own AI Deadline, and Tests the Brussels Effect
The EU adopted the Digital Omnibus, deferring high-risk AI Act obligations by more than a year and conceding that its regulatory machinery was not ready on time.
Congress Tries Preemption Again, This Time With a Rulebook Attached
A bipartisan draft would freeze state AI development laws for three years while imposing federal transparency and audits on the largest labs, a trade the last moratorium attempt never offered.
Washington Draws the Chip Line Around the Company, Not the Country
By declaring that its AI chip ban follows Chinese firms wherever they operate, the US closes a subsidiary loophole and hands chipmakers a harder compliance problem.
The White House Wants One AI Rulebook, and Hands Congress the Pen
A non-binding federal framework asks Congress to preempt state AI laws, moving the fight from the executive branch to a Senate that already blocked a moratorium once.
Eighty-eight signatures and one loud refusal: the AI governance split becomes visible
India's summit produced a broad development-focused consensus. The US rejection of global AI governance drew the fault line the declaration papered over.
The H200 door opens a crack: how the January export rule loosened without letting go
Washington moved H200-class chip sales to China from near-automatic denial to case-by-case review. The conditions attached are where the real policy lives.
A 25% chip tariff with a data-center hole big enough to drive the AI buildout through
The January Section 232 duty on advanced semiconductors carves out the exact use case that drives US chip demand. That design choice is the whole story.
A $2.9 Million Deal Blocked, and a Message About Who Can Own US Chips
Trump unwound a small 2024 chip acquisition on national security grounds, using a tiny transaction to signal a wide posture on foreign control of semiconductor assets.