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America.gov opens its doors, then revises its answers €30bn+EU call for up to seven AI gigafactories Europe’s AI Act: what applies now, and what waits until December 2027 554deepfakes logged in Brazil’s first round; only 371 labelled California signs 13 AI bills, including the “No Robo Bosses Act” 30+AI firms sent the first AI Act information requests Washington and Beijing open an AI incident channel 164AI-made ads in the US midterms, by one count Medicare’s AI pilot: thousands of denials, and an 83-day wait 42signatories to Canada’s voluntary data-centre principles The midterms’ machine-made ads 174MWCape Town data centre now under appeal Pew: global publics trust China more than the US or EU to regulate AI 83 dayswait reported under Medicare’s AI pilot, against a 72-hour standard Indonesia’s AI Rules Are Stuck on the President’s Desk 20home-grown foundation models backed by the IndiaAI Mission Pakistan Writes Rules for the Algorithmic State 2%of Turkish public investment budgets earmarked for AI Cape Town’s Data Centre Fight Puts a Price on AI’s Thirst Turkey Governs AI by Circular, Not Statute ChatGPT Now Answers to Brussels Twice Over Mexico Wants One AI Law. Its States Got There First Washington’s $1 AI Era Is Over. Now Agencies Get the Meter India’s Sovereign AI Bet Meets the Price of Silicon

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Elections & Democracy

Campaigns, deepfakes, disinformation and the integrity of the vote.

Brazil’s Election Court Became Its AI Regulator. Now What?

With Brazil's AI bill stalled in the Chamber, the electoral court has written the country's most consequential AI rules. The first round showed how far court resolutions and platform injunctions can reach, and where they stop.

Slopaganda: What the AI Ads of 2026 Tell Us About Elections

AI-made political advertising has arrived at scale in the US midterms, mostly undisclosed and often more absurd than deceptive. Brazil and Hungary suggest the real risks, and the real defences, lie somewhere other than the ads themselves.