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Subscribe →Someone Finally Said the Quiet Part
A president's blunt math on what an AI data center costs his country, Nigeria's court telling Meta it can't force ad tracking, Scotland's parliament voting to block data centers outright, and the EU AI Act's enforcement count one month in.
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No One Agreed on the Rules. Everyone Built Their Own Anyway.
Trump's AI rebrand and a toothless safety pact, the G20's light-touch accord, a new EU industrial project, and Rwanda's new AI agency.
Sept 28–Oct 4, 2026
Nobody Checked Until Somebody Did
Four AI labs sued over their own public safety pledge, a province testing what OpenAI's own reviewers already flagged, Roblox's age checks failing an outside audit, and Australia closing a loophole in its own law.
Sept 21–28, 2026
A Law on the Books Isn't a System That Works
Meta and Google's settlements, Uber's four-years-late €825M fine, Chile's privacy law delayed before it starts, and Africa's "policy, not system" problem.
Sept 14–20, 2026
Ten Stories About Who Actually Gets to Decide
Google keeps its ad empire but loses the argument, a university sues Anthropic over decade-old patents, and the Gulf's biggest "sovereign AI" bets still need American chips.
Sept 8–14, 2026
Ten Stories, and Half of Them Weren't True the Way They First Sounded
NYC's AI ban in schools has a backstory nobody covered, South Africa's AI policy got pulled over AI-hallucinated citations, and five viral claims turned out to be wrong once checked.
Sept 1–7, 2026
The World's Top 10 Tech Policy Stories This Week
Meta's $16.68B settlement, the EU AI Act's delayed teeth, Nigeria's investigation into Big Tech, China's fast enforcement, and the fight over AI data centers.
Aug 24–30, 2026