Indonesia’s AI Rules Are Stuck on the President’s Desk
South-East Asia's largest economy has spent more than a year promising two presidential regulations on AI. What they contain, why they keep slipping, and the gaps critics say they leave open.
Policy & Regulation
The laws, rules and regulators shaping how AI is built and used.
Pakistan Writes Rules for the Algorithmic State
Pakistan's draft National Data Governance Policy would give citizens a right to human review of automated decisions and force ministries to register high-risk AI. It arrives before the country has a data protection law.
Cape Town’s Data Centre Fight Puts a Price on AI’s Thirst
Housing activists have appealed Cape Town's approval of a 174MW Equinix data centre, arguing that planners waved it through without data on water, power or emissions. The case is becoming a test of how African cities govern AI infrastructure.
Turkey Governs AI by Circular, Not Statute
Turkey's new AI action plan sets out a presidential governance structure, hard targets and EU-style safeguards. The AI law that would give those safeguards legal force is still stuck in parliament.
ChatGPT Now Answers to Brussels Twice Over
In one week at the end of August, the Commission sent its first AI Act information requests to more than 30 AI firms and designated ChatGPT a very large search engine. Here is what each regime demands, and why it matters.
Mexico Wants One AI Law. Its States Got There First
Mexico's Congress is moving towards a general AI law, starting with a constitutional amendment to give itself the power to pass one. Several states have already legislated, and experts warn the country still lacks a national strategy.
Africa’s AI Rulebook Is Being Written on Three Floors at Once
The African Union is drafting a model AI law, regional blocs are writing strategies and national parliaments are racing ahead with bills. The binding constraint on all three is not ambition but the state's capacity to draft, verify and enforce.
Canada’s Data-Centre Rush Is Outpacing Ottawa
Ottawa wants up to six gigawatts of new AI compute and has blessed a $52.5bn gas-powered campus in Saskatchewan. Its only national guardrail is a voluntary pledge, and voters are noticing.
The Briefing: A state chatbot’s first week, Europe’s new AI clock and the midterms’ machine-made ads
Washington's new chatbot front door is already rewriting its answers, Brussels has reset the AI Act timetable, California has legislated again, and the midterms are filling up with machine-made advertising. Here is what matters this week.
Europe Resets the Clock on the AI Act
Brussels has pushed its high-risk AI rules back to December 2027. For welfare offices, border agencies, police forces and schools, the extra sixteen months are a window to build governance, not a reprieve.
California v Washington: The States Writing America’s AI Rules
Congress has not passed a federal AI law, and its preemption push has stalled. California is filling the gap with worker protections and auditor rules, while Colorado shows how far federal and industry pressure can roll a state back.
Deployment Before Law: Britain’s AI Governance Gap
Parliament's human rights committee wants a dedicated AI Bill; the government's cyber legislation leaves frontier developers to volunteer; and the Met is fixing facial recognition cameras in the West End. The UK is deploying first and legislating later.