PEOPLE OF INTERNET RESEARCH $1.42B California BEAD award ~14 yrs Exemption duration
US
net neutrality
A BEAD grant clause would bar California from enforcing net neutrality and rate rules against funded providers for about 14 years, far beyond the rural locations the money serves.
2026-10-01
RESEARCH 49 Pages in injunction filing 1,000+ State AI bills cited
US
2026-10-01
Florida's request to freeze OpenAI's model development targets real harms to minors. A county-court injunction is the wr...
RESEARCH ~170,000 ModelScope models ~20,000 MoArk models
China
2026-10-01
ModelScope and MoArk are growing because Chinese developers fear a US cutoff; the cheapest fix for both governments is l...
RESEARCH 15% Standard app link-out fee 5% Small Business Program fee
US
2026-10-01
With Justice Kagan's stay denial, a district court must now set what Apple may charge on external purchases while the Su...
RESEARCH ~1,000 Attacks since 2024 50%+ Attacks that succeeded
US
2026-10-01
Europe's KillSec arrests show takedowns can reach young operators, but US deterrence still depends on faster incident re...
RESEARCH 174 MW Proposed capacity 4.4B litres Expected annual water use
South Africa
2026-10-01
A planning appeal against Equinix's Cape Town data centres exposes a real transparency gap. Disclosure rules would fix i...
RESEARCH 14 Countries studied by CIPESA 0 of 14 With AI-specific legislation
Africa
2026-10-01
At FIFAfrica26, CIPESA's research shows none of 14 studied countries has AI-specific law while smart-city surveillance s...
RESEARCH 37 States' positions tracked ~80 Real-world incidents catalogued
Estonia
2026-10-01
CCDCOE's pilot course for military legal advisers treats AI as a stress test of existing international law, not a reason...
RESEARCH 18 Proposed minimum account age 655M+ Indian social media users
India
2026-10-01
The Centre told the Supreme Court it plans to bar under-18s from social media accounts via IT Rules, an 18-year threshol...
RESEARCH ~700 OpenAI agents in incident 4 CEOs signing audit pledge
US
2026-10-01
The FTC is using its existing deception and CID powers on OpenAI, Anthropic and METR. That is a narrower and healthier p...
RESEARCH 195 ha Site area >500 MW Power demand
France
2026-10-01
Five Étrechet officials quit over Google's Châteauroux data centre, exposing a gap between national fast-tracking and lo...
RESEARCH ~3,000 Federal employees on openDesk 172 Feasibility-st udy test users
Switzerland
2026-10-01
Bern will build an open-source workplace suite for ~3,000 federal staff. It is a pilot beside Microsoft 365, and the rig...
RESEARCH 3 of 6 Consortiums selected 512 Government-sup plied GPUs
South Korea
2026-10-01
South Korea's free agentic AI service runs through KakaoTalk, KT and SK Telecom. Its privacy and oversight terms should ...
RESEARCH 5 Steps in fining test 14 Worked practical examples
EU
2026-10-01
The EDPB's draft Guidelines 04/2026 give EEA regulators one five-step fining test. Its presumption of a fine for non-min...
RESEARCH Rs 100 crore Damages claimed in suit Oct 27 Contempt notices returnable
India
2026-10-01
Justice Godse ordered X to remove specific content but refused monitoring or account suspension, reaffirming the Shreya ...
RESEARCH ~25,000 Q&A memos in training set 2020 Year lawsuit was filed
US
2026-10-01
The first US appeals ruling on fair use in AI training backs Thomson Reuters against a direct Westlaw competitor. Its re...
RESEARCH 995 X accounts blocked, 2025 179 Article 8/A decisions, 2025
Turkey
2026-10-01
X withheld nearly 500 Turkish accounts in a week under Article 8/A of Law 5651. Account-wide blocks on fund-crisis comme...
RESEARCH ~2.6M Daily cyberattacks on Taiwan NT$10B AI startup support fund
Taiwan
2026-10-01
Minister Lin Yi-jing's Washington trip announced no new policy. It showed that Taiwan's AI strategy is cooperative and m...
RESEARCH 2 days Platform takedown window 24 hours Scam-ad removal deadline
Taiwan
2026-10-01
The CEC's candidate-reporting platform builds on a two-day takedown rule for fake candidate footage, but it can't reach ...
RESEARCH 13 ETSI baseline provision areas 11 Sep 2026 CRA reporting duties begin
Indonesia
2026-10-01
A DPR member flagged that Indonesia's cyber bill sets no local-representative duty for foreign vendors; a proportionate,...
RESEARCH 150 Days to match US controls 15 Named Chinese organizations
Netherlands
2026-10-01
Rob Jetten says a deal on the US MATCH Act is within reach. The bill's text shows what Dutch ministers would be negotiat...
RESEARCH 105 Public comments on guidelines Dec 18, 2025 Full effect date
Japan
2026-10-01
The JFTC is probing whether Apple or Google misused interoperability-request data. The Mobile Software Competition Act's...
RESEARCH $500 Penalty per violation 53-14 Assembly vote on SB 947
US
2026-10-01
Newsom's reversal on SB 947 sets a sensible human-in-the-loop floor for AI firings, but undefined terms and surveillance...
RESEARCH 15 Minimum age, own account 1 hour Mini-account daily screen cap
EU
2026-10-01
The Commission's September 2026 proposal bans addictive design and reverses the burden of proof, but mandatory certified...
RESEARCH 118 Articles cited by prosecutors ~1.9M T24 X followers cut off
Turkey
2026-10-01
A Turkish court used Article 8/A to shut T24's website and all its social accounts over 118 articles, a remedy far wider...