A startup just raised a quarter-billion dollars to build data centers in orbit. The reason isn't compute - it's geography, regulation, and the fact that terrestrial power is running out of room.
24/08/2026 à 21h00 10 8
Building the version of ChatGPT that regulators will eventually mandate anyway is a smarter play than waiting for them to mandate it.
19/08/2026 à 09h33 9 8
A technical analysis confirms that text-based AI watermarks can be stripped or spoofed with trivial effort - undermining watermarking provisions in AI regulation that assume the mechanism is reliable against motivated adversaries.
13/08/2026 à 20h43 9 12
Le régime cible les apps qui simulent une personnalité spécifique et maintiennent une relation émotionnelle consistante - nouveau pilier de l'encadrement social des LLM consumer en Chine.
20/07/2026 à 16h42 9 9
Un organisme de normalisation indépendant, financé par l'industrie, qui inspecterait les modèles avant leur lancement. La proposition est sérieuse. Ses angles morts aussi.
14/07/2026 à 22h32 22 8
The EU Commission preliminarily flagged Meta over addictive feed design; separately, a report says Meta is considering shipping its next AI glasses without a working privacy LED. Two front-page items, one direction of travel: platform accountability keeps hardening - and now it's touching hardware.
11/07/2026 à 11h41 9 7
Waymo is running commercial robotaxi service in multiple US cities. It's also doubling its lobbying budget. Those two facts are related. Autonomous vehicles have crossed from "science project" to "operating business" - which means they've crossed into the territory where politics, unions, and regulatory capture matter more than benchmarks.
24/08/2026 à 20h58 8 8
India's cyber authority wants mandatory human approval at key decision points when AI agents handle financial transactions - defining where AI agency ends and human accountability begins
18/08/2026 à 09h30 11 13
French publishers have formally asked France's competition regulator to act against Google's AI news summaries. It's the sharpest test yet of whether EU neighbouring rights apply to the AI inference layer.
14/08/2026 à 18h59 6 7
Facing mainland chip restrictions, Chinese AI companies are pushing aggressively into Hong Kong's data center market - a regulatory arbitrage that is real, and finite.
07/08/2026 à 10h54 11 10
Three days after the EU AI Act became enforceable, Washington published a voluntary AI evaluation framework that excludes open-source models. The transatlantic regulatory gap just became official.
05/08/2026 à 16h38 10 8
August 2 marked the date GPAI rules became legally binding. The framework exists; the enforcement capacity does not - yet.
04/08/2026 à 23h33 10 8
