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AI New York’s New Chatbot Law for Minors: The Banned Features, the Age Checks and the Model-Deletion Remedy
New York has a new law on what AI chatbots may say to children.
AI The UK Uses AI to Summarize Asylum Interviews. A Watchdog May Now Look at How Well It Works
The UK’s borders watchdog is weighing whether to inspect how the Home Office uses generative AI to help decide asylum claims.
AI Sweden’s Government Offices Block ChatGPT and Claude. The Real Issue Is the Missing Contract
Since Monday, October 26, staff at the Government Offices of Sweden can no longer open ChatGPT or Claude on their work computers.
AI Norway’s Privacy Regulator Warns of ‘Digital Ghosts’: AI Agents That Outlive the People Who Built Them
An employee builds a small automation. An AI agent checks a case management system every morning, pulls new records, drafts summaries and…
AI UK Financial Ombudsman Turns to Phone Calls as AI-Written Complaints Fill Up With Hallucinations
Britain’s Financial Ombudsman Service is picking up the phone more often, and generative AI is the reason.
AI Italy’s Decree 179/2026 Completes Its AI Act Framework: Regulators, Fines and the National Sandbox
Italy finished the second half of its national AI Act framework on October 23, 2026, when Legislative Decree No.
AI Who Pays When AI Makes It Up? What Courts in China, Germany and Georgia Have Decided So Far
Lawyers keep asking the same question about generative AI errors: when a chatbot invents a crime, a campus address or a company…
Voiceprint Lawsuits Put AI Training Permissions Under Scrutiny
Nine related class actions filed in May 2026 challenge the use of Illinois voice professionals’ recordings to develop commercial voice AI.
The Privacy Risk Between Your Business and Its AI Models
A business may carefully review an AI model provider and still overlook another company handling the same information.
AI Microsoft and NVIDIA Publish Open-Weight AI Risk Guide for Enterprises
Microsoft and NVIDIA have published joint guidance for enterprises using open-weight AI models, with a shared risk taxonomy and an approach to…
AI Governance Minimization: What Privacy’s Data Minimization Principle Teaches Us About Running AI Governance
Most AI governance programs fail in one of two ways. Some collapse under their own weight: an intake form with sixty questions,…
AI The 10 Most Costly AI Governance Failures of the Last Two Years
AI governance is not failing because companies lack policies.