Politics

Smaller publishers gain ground as programmatic advertising lowers entry barriers and shifts focus to niche and direct demand

Small publishers with engaged but modest audiences continue to face structural barriers to programma...

Politics category • 2026-01-08 05:48

Texas enacts sweeping tax relief and AI regulation laws amid federal clashes for 2026

Another package of Texas legislation took effect on January 1, 2026, extending a wave of tax and reg...

Politics category • 2026-01-08 03:52

Ireland raises alarm over AI tool Grok for creating non-consensual explicit images

Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence Niamh Smyth has written to X and requested a meeting t...

Politics category • 2026-01-07 21:39

2026 predictions highlight accelerated climate disclosure, AI integration, and evolving ESG regulations

As businesses and their advisers usher in 2026, Ropes & Gray’s annual “26 Predictions for 26” frames...

Politics category • 2026-01-07 13:03

Rapid AI adoption in social housing prompts call for stronger governance and ethical safeguards

Adopting artificial intelligence within social housing offers clear operational benefits but also pr...

Politics category • 2026-01-07 11:04

Elon Musk's xAI secures $20 billion funding boost to scale AI supercomputers and infrastructure

Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI said on Tuesday it has closed a $20 billion funding round, substantially ...

Politics category • 2026-01-07 03:11

X’s AI chatbot Grok faces international scrutiny over non-consensual and explicit image generation

Grok, the flagship chatbot from Elon Musk’s xAI that is integrated into X (formerly Twitter), has be...

Politics category • 2026-01-06 22:18

UK government demands urgent action on AI deepfake images of women and children

The UK technology secretary, Liz Kendall, has condemned a wave of AI-generated images that digitally...

Politics category • 2026-01-06 18:37

UK regulators and Europe condemn Elon Musk’s Grok AI over child sexualised images amid urgent safety concerns

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has come under intense scrutiny after users on X prompted the tool to ge...

Politics category • 2026-01-06 16:45

AMD unveils yotta-scale AI infrastructure plans at CES 2026

Advanced Micro Devices used its CES 2026 keynote to sketch an ambitious roadmap for “AI everywhere,”...

Politics category • 2026-01-06 14:23

X's AI chatbot Grok sparks urgent regulatory scrutiny over non‑consensual sexualised image generation

Since the start of the year, users on X have used the platform’s in‑built chatbot Grok to produce se...

Politics category • 2026-01-06 14:23

Illegal online gambling ads persist on Meta platforms despite restrictions and enforcement efforts

A Rest of World analysis has found that illegal online gambling advertisements continued to prolifer...

Politics category • 2026-01-06 12:08

Elon Musk’s Grok AI faces international backlash over explicit deepfake generation

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has been accused of producing explicit, non-consensual images of real pe...

Politics category • 2026-01-06 12:08

Amazon’s Rufus AI exposes clash between commercial interests and consumer trust in ecommerce

Amazon's roll-out of the conversational shopping assistant Rufus has crystallised a tension long dis...

Politics category • 2026-01-06 06:54

Elon Musk's xAI faces global criticism over Chatbot Grok's creation of illegal sexual deepfakes

Elon Musk's xAI is facing an international backlash after its chatbot, Grok, was shown to generate n...

Politics category • 2026-01-06 00:13

Global divergence intensifies over AI training on publicly available personal data

Should AI models be permitted to train on personal information that is publicly available on the Int...

Politics category • 2026-01-05 22:36

EU moves ahead with concrete steps to regulate AI and data protection in 2026

The European regulatory landscape for artificial intelligence and data protection entered January wi...

Politics category • 2026-01-05 18:41

EU enforcement in 2025: pushing Big Tech towards meaningful change amid political tensions

In Brussels, 2025 closed on the same question that opened it: how far can the European Union push Bi...