Derek Slater

People stand inside the California State Capitol, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Supporting Openness & Safety — Lessons From Recent State Laws

Chris Russill

Patrick McCurdy

A person takes a picture of the newly unveiled sign for Lake Ontario at Fifty Point Conservation Area in Grimsby, Ontario, on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026. (Keito Newman/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadian Hydronyms, Builders, and Other Adventures in Middle Power Tech Policy

Justin Hendrix

Chris Mills Rodrigo

Laura Karpas

Parents and teachers held a rally calling on Mayor Mamdani and NYC School Chancellor Kamar Samuels to have a two year moratorium on AI in public schools in New York City, NY. July 29, 2026 (Photo by Steve Sanchez/Sipa via AP Images)

Across the US, School Districts Wrestle With Classroom AI Policy

A yellow school bus is seen in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on July 28, 2026. (Photo by Marcin Golba/NurPhoto)

In the US, Caution Rules on AI Ahead of K-12 School Year

Ellen P. Goodman

In an aerial view, the Meta El Paso Data Center is seen on August 13, 2026 in El Paso, Texas. Meta continues construction on its more than $10 billion data center, occupying approximately 1,000 acres, and has expanded the project to 1 gigawatt of computing capacity, allowing the facility to support a growing range of AI workloads and the training and deployment of AI models and technologies. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Lost it at Compute

Graham Webster

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, waves as he arrives at the opening ceremony for the World AI Conference in Shanghai, Friday, July 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)

Will China Crack Down on Open-Weight Models?

Mark MacCarthy

People visit the booth of Kimi, an LLM developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot, during the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, Monday, July 20, 2026. (FeatureChina via AP Images)

US Government’s AI Risk Review Should Apply to Open Weight Models

Petter Bae Brandtzaeg

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House, Sunday, June 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

No Zuckerberg, The Future is Not Just For Individuals

Anna Neumann

Holli Sargeant

Jat Singh

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The Grok homescreen seen on a smartphone. 

Making AI Safe Requires More Than Constraining Its Instructions

Joel Christoph

Participants, including Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang (front, 2nd from R), Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Ryosei Akazawa (front, C) and Noetra Corp. President Hironobu Tamba (front, 2nd from L), pose for a photo during an event hosted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo on July 16, 2026. (Kyodo via AP Images)

What Sovereign AI Budgets Actually Buy

Michelle De Mooy

Aerial view of the work on White House Helipad on August 1, 2026 in Washington, D.C. Credit: mpi34/MediaPunch /IPX

Five Questions the US Government Should Answer About Its Secretive Frontier AI Framework

Emilio Ferrara

On the left, there is an image of a tree on a snowy, rocky landscape, with light shining in from the background. On the right, there is the same landscape, but it is now reproduced as grey and silver cubes in the shape of a tree and technical terrain, backgrounded by the light.

Linus Zoll & Google DeepMind / Better Images of AI / Generative Image models / CC-BY 4.0

The Model You Audit Is Not the Model You Ship

Sameer Hinduja

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) speak before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on artificial intelligence at the US Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. The two senators are among those sponsoring the GUARD Act. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa via AP Images)

AI Is Not Social Media. New Child Safety Laws Should Reflect That.

Bruna Santos

Jacobo Castellanos

A view of the Berlaymont European Commission building in Brussels, Belgium on July 20, 2026. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via AP)

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