Maria Buza

Aishwarya Vaithyanathan

Image of map and computer language over binary codes on server racks in server room.

Global Digital Policy Roundup: July 2026

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.

Gregory Gondwe

Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks before a dinner with President Donald Trump and Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in the State Dining Room of the White House, Thursday, March 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Google's AI Governance Plan Draws the Boundaries of What Counts as Harm

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)

EU AI Act Transparency Rules Are Now In Effect. Was It A Missed Opportunity?

Laura Karpas

Illustration of a Tamagotchi with the OpenAI logo depicted on its screen. Tech Policy Press/Shutterstock

Illustration of a Tamagotchi with the OpenAI logo depicted on its screen. Tech Policy Press/

When Users Say 'Goodbye' to AI

Justin Hendrix

A group of people walking around at the National Conference of State Legislatures. 

The 2026 National Conference of State Legislatures in Chicago. Photo by Justin Hendrix.

At NCSL, Geoffrey Hinton Warns State Lawmakers Not to Buy Big Tech's Anti-Regulation Pitch

Raffi Krikorian

This image is a collage with a colourful Japanese vintage landscape showing a mountain, hills, flowers and other plants and a small stream. There are 3 large black data servers placed in the bottom half of the image, with a cloud of black smoke emitting from them, partly obscuring the scenery.

Deborah Lupton, "Servers in a Landscape" / 

Is Open-Source AI Really the Dangerous Path?

J.B. Branch

OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman speaks with reporters as he departs a meeting with Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Capitol Hill on July 29, 2026. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images)

The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident Demands Urgent Congressional Oversight

Raquel Vazquez Llorente

Rafiya Javed

Vinodkumar Prabhakaran

Nine small images with schematic representations of differently shaped neural networks, a human hand making a different gesture is placed behind each network.

Can AI Agents Be Aligned with Human Rights?

Joana Soares

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

 Brussels Gains New AI Act Enforcement Powers as Autonomous AI Tests Regulators

Liz Orembo

Why the Global AI Safety Agenda Cannot See African Harms

Brandie Nonnecke

A photo shows US Capitol in Washington, D.C., United States of America on July 2, 2026. (The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images)

Why Congress Must Codify a Chatbot Duty of Care

Ana Ornelas

How the AI Deepfake Boom is Outpacing Europe's Safeguards

Tyler Whitmer

Ben Rashkovich

A blurred black-and-white portrait of a man on the left, with the xAI company logo displayed on a screen to the right against a black background.

AI regulation