How laws, courts and enforcement govern digital systems, and where their reach ends.
The VasyGrek case fits a pattern in which the line Russia draws around cybercrime runs through the victim, not the crime. A rare arrest of a group that hit Russian firms shows where tolerance may end, and how little the public record says about why the state acted now.
The FTC has ordered Delta, United, JetBlue and six other firms to disclose whether AI uses personal data to set individual prices.
The New York Times sued Perplexity on 5 December, a day after the Chicago Tribune filed its own suit, both accusing it of repackaging their journalism without paying for it.
The Atlantic, Forbes and the Guardian are suing Cohere over AI outputs that invent quotes and credit them to real mastheads.
Stablecoin issuers froze about $3bn of the funds stolen from Binance within hours, according to Binance. Their freezing powers are written down. What outsiders cannot see is how those powers are applied, and who can challenge a decision.
The UK High Court rejected Getty Images' copyright claims against Stability AI and found only narrow, historic trademark infringement; Getty has since been granted permission to appeal the copyright ruling.
Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 with a $20m Disney bid, hoping the sale proceeds cover the remaining lawsuits over harm to children, after settling its highest-profile wrongful-death suit separately in January.
Anthropic told courts it cannot alter Claude once it is inside a classified Pentagon system, and an appeals court has now ruled that how a laboratory trains its models can itself be a supply chain risk. Military AI splits responsibility between the laboratory that trains the model, the platform that gives it tools and the commander who acts, and no single party holds the whole of it.
Human judgment is the main safeguard in US military AI, and the thing a fast, jammed battlefield wears away. Pentagon policy requires only appropriate human judgment, while Palantir says Maven cuts two weeks of staff planning to one person and four hours.
New York's new law forces ads to disclose AI-generated performers, with fines rising to $5,000 for repeat offenders.
In Naples, organised crime uses drones, encrypted phones, online betting and social media to extend its reach. Italian investigators are responding with intercepted communications, financial intelligence and AI. The technology changes the contest, but neither side has escaped the old rules of power, money and intimidation.
A California lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI illegally agreed to slow AI development, turning a safety pledge into an antitrust target.
Palantir says the Pentagon replaced Claude inside Maven with no operational impact. The claim highlights a different dependency: the platform connecting models to military data and workflows.
A federal judge barred OpenAI from calling a Sora feature 'cameo', after the personalised-video firm Cameo sued over the name.
The Cockroach Janta Party reached 22 million Instagram followers in about two weeks, then saw Delhi Police seal its protest site and detain its founders after tracking them for days, according to police officers. The platforms that made the movement cheap to build also made it visible, and the government can order those platforms to restrict access in ways the movement cannot.
The Pentagon says it will livestream a military execution on 3 December, but has not said where. The companies that spent a decade removing execution videos from their platforms may refuse to carry it, and the US government may discover how little of the pipeline between camera and audience it actually controls.
Grok's Edit Image tool produced millions of nonconsensual sexualised photos, drawing a Baltimore lawsuit, an EU probe and a congressional letter.
The European Commission wants AI gigafactories to skip the environmental checks that normally apply to projects of their size.
ShinyHunters says it hacked the FBI's recruitment systems in retaliation for a public warning, and wants the warning withdrawn. The group is still best described as criminal. What that word cannot capture is how much a loose, arrest-resistant network can now do to a state institution.
Hong Kong's privacy regulator issued a deepfakes toolkit for schools, leaning on existing statutes rather than new rules for the tools themselves.
The heads of OpenAI and Anthropic now say AI is moving too fast. Whether they mean it matters less than the question this summer's incidents have raised: when the danger is visible mainly to the builders, who gets to stop the machine?
Trump's plan to let Nvidia sell its H200 chip to China has moved from a licensing review to a formal change in Commerce Department policy, even as the House moves separately to close the cloud-rental loophole that let Chinese firms reach restricted chips anyway.
TikTok's US divestiture has closed, but the deal's real test is whether retraining its algorithm on American data changes anything users see.
Six authors who rejected the Anthropic book-piracy settlement are suing six AI firms at once, testing what a payout was meant to close off.
A California bill meant to curb AI data centres' hidden costs to ratepayers survived the legislature only as an order to study them.
Washington spent years blocking Nvidia's best AI chips from China. It is now licensing selected Chinese buyers for the H200 — not the end of export controls, but a different idea of what they're for.
American AI policy begins from the premise that there is a race with China and that America must win it. Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical begins from the premise that treating AI as a race is itself the danger. Peter Thiel thinks that makes the pope an ally of Beijing. Underneath the row sits a question neither side can avoid: who gets a say in what these machines are for?
A US takedown of a Houston-based Nvidia smuggling ring shows export controls working after the fact, not before it.
Nvidia's $20bn Groq deal delivers a takeover's substance while avoiding the word, and the antitrust scrutiny that comes with it.
A new Senate bill targets cloud rental of restricted US chips, closing a loophole export controls never anticipated.
In January a Chinese-owned fishing vessel spent ninety minutes inside Argentina's waters. Nobody boarded it. Argentina fined it anyway, largely on the strength of its electronic track. The case shows how far maritime surveillance has come, and where its limits now lie.
A new coalition of individual actors, directors and writers — explicitly separate from union bargaining — is pushing for shared AI standards, with Disney's OpenAI deal as its immediate backdrop.
The US has formally approved the export of up to 35,000 advanced Nvidia chips to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, testing where the chip curtain actually ends.
An Imperial Valley AI data centre that pledged never to touch the Colorado River is now suing for 260 million gallons of it a year — and the county has since imposed a moratorium in response.
Amazon's case against Perplexity's shopping agent has reached the Ninth Circuit, which has stayed a lower court's injunction pending appeal.
Beijing is weighing export controls that would restrict foreign downloads of Chinese AI model weights, reversing its openness strategy.
The American Bill of Rights was written for a world of muskets, town squares and letters kept in a locked drawer. Two and a half centuries of invention have moved much of private life and public speech into places the framers never pictured. The question is whether the amendments have lost their grip on modern life, or whether their broad wording is exactly what allows them to keep up.
A new US order clears data centers to bypass the grid queue and connect directly to power plants, starting in the country's largest market.
The Netherlands and China say the Nexperia dispute is behind them, but the chipmaker itself remains split into rival national halves.
Finnish commandos boarded the cargo vessel Fitburg over a suspected Baltic cable cut, but recent history suggests prosecution is the hard part.
New US guidance extends licensing rules for advanced AI chips to any company with a Chinese parent, wherever it happens to sit.
Brussels is moving to delay and soften parts of the AI Act it spent years selling as the global standard, before the hard rules even bite.
A new executive order enlists litigation and broadband funding to pressure states into abandoning their own AI rules.
The world's first national ban on under-16s using social media has taken effect, and its real legacy may be the age-checking machinery it normalizes.