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AI Governance

Policy, regulation, standards and the internal controls that decide how AI is deployed.

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AI Governance

Why now?

Regulation is moving from principles to enforceable obligations
Boards are being asked to evidence AI oversight
Agent autonomy raises questions existing frameworks did not anticipate

Latest

Science

OpenAI Says Its Models Disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis

OpenAI published three claimed results on 26 October 2026, including a refutation of a conjecture that hundreds of complexity papers assume to be true. None has been peer-reviewed, and the group checking the refutation is led by the two men who proposed the conjecture.

27 October 20264 min read

Future

Italy Bars AI From the Final Call on Hiring and Dismissals

Italy's second decree implementing its national AI law took effect on 23 October 2026. It requires a natural person with effective and independent authority to make final employment decisions, and folds AI systems that reshape how work is organised into the risk assessment every Italian employer already has to carry out.

26 October 20263 min read

DeepSeek and MiniMax Clear China's New AI Export Register

Chinese state media reported on 22 October 2026 that DeepSeek and MiniMax had completed export registration under the interim regime that took effect with Announcement No. 48, six days after the Ministry of Commerce proposed bringing large models, AI agents and computing clusters into China's export control catalogue.

25 October 20264 min read

Tech

US Treasury Adds Russia and North Korea to Investment Curbs

Treasury has proposed regulations implementing the Comprehensive Outbound Investment National Security Act, expanding the outbound investment screening regime from China to Russia, Iran, North Korea and Cuba. Public comments run through 7 December 2026.

24 October 20262 min read

DHS Order Pulling DeepSeek From Agency Systems Dates to July

A Federal Register notice on 20 October 2026 published a Homeland Security order excluding DeepSeek from federal civilian procurement and requiring agencies to remove DeepSeek products, and third-party software built on DeepSeek implementations, from their systems.

21 October 20263 min read

OpenAI and Anthropic Fund the Checking of AI Maths

The Simons Foundation announced on 15 October 2026 that it, Anthropic and OpenAI will commit $15 million in combined funding and resources to help mathematicians evaluate AI-assisted results and set standards for using the tools. The foundation will award the money through an open call for proposals.

16 October 20263 min read

Future/ Data Story

EU Small Firms Use AI to Monitor Staff but Distrust Its Calls

The European Commission published survey results on 14 October 2026 showing 42 per cent of EU SMEs and mid-caps already use AI or algorithmic management, mostly experimentally, while only 2 per cent of decisions are fully automated. Investment cost, legal uncertainty and missing expertise rank within two points of each other as barriers.

15 October 20263 min read

Climate

California's Emissions Rule Took Effect With 29 Days to File

California's corporate greenhouse gas reporting regulation cleared its final administrative hurdle on 12 October 2026. Companies with more than $1 billion in revenue that do business in the state now have under a month to file, under enforcement terms that let some of them file nothing at all.

14 October 20263 min read

OpenAI Published 722 Proofs and Withheld the Model's Name

OpenAI posted 722 mathematical manuscripts in 372 result families to a GitHub repository on 6 October 2026, produced by an unreleased internal model. Measured against recommendations published on 29 September by the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, the release delivers the requested formalisation artefacts and version protocols but withholds the model's name, the prompts, and all but ten reasoning summaries.

8 October 20265 min read

Explainers

Security/ Explainer

What Actually Took Effect Under the EU AI Act

Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, in force from 27 July 2026, pushed the AI Act's Annex III high-risk obligations to 2 December 2027 and embedded-product rules to 2 August 2028. From 2 August 2026 the AI Office and national authorities enforce transparency duties with fines up to €15 million or 3% of turnover, and new bans on non-consensual intimate imagery apply from 2 December 2026.

14 September 20266 min read

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AI Governance

Why now?

Latest

OpenAI Says Its Models Disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis

Italy Bars AI From the Final Call on Hiring and Dismissals

DeepSeek and MiniMax Clear China's New AI Export Register

US Treasury Adds Russia and North Korea to Investment Curbs

DHS Order Pulling DeepSeek From Agency Systems Dates to July

OpenAI and Anthropic Fund the Checking of AI Maths

EU Small Firms Use AI to Monitor Staff but Distrust Its Calls

California's Emissions Rule Took Effect With 29 Days to File

OpenAI Published 722 Proofs and Withheld the Model's Name

Explainers

What Actually Took Effect Under the EU AI Act

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