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1. Brazil Proclaims a Result and Leaves Its Orders Unreferended 34,393votes cast after 5:00 pm under Brazil’s extension, 0.027% of turnout and far below the margin 2. The First Committee Clears All Four Military-AI Texts £490mwhat Table 6.1 of Britain’s Budget scores for AI over six years, against "over £700 million" in the text 3. Egypt's Grace Period Has Expired. The Regulator Says It Starts Now 13 Novembernew close of India’s 10,000-GPU tender, moved by an unannounced corrigendum 4. The FCC Has Not Ruled on AI Robocalls, and Says It Has No Plans To 77.9%turnout in Israel’s final count, published 30 October 5. Mexico's Supreme Court Parks 138 Biometric-CURP Appeals 163–5First Committee vote to "advance to negotiations" on autonomous weapons 6. Canada and the EU Write AI Conformity Into a Summit Text $25,000New York’s per-violation penalty for unsafe AI companion features, from 1 January 2027 7. South Australia's Royal Commission Opens With Six Themes and a Carve-Out 243→16South Korean local governments folding into sixteen regional platforms by end-2029 8. Beijing Certifies 21 More Personal-Information Auditors 0.478F1 of a clinical de-identifier on real nursing notes, against 0.994 on its synthetic benchmark 9. Islamabad Chooses Age Assurance Over a Ban 180,000Japanese officials being moved onto the Digital Agency’s agent tooling 10. New York's Courts Tell Lawyers How to Check What AI Wrote $0.47what a US federal agency pays for Gemini for Government per year, until 15 November Washington Writes ‘Super Intelligence’ Into the Rulebook $3,000Pennsylvania’s maximum civil fine under Act 99, from 21 December Brazil’s Platform Orders Outlive the Vote 6 hourshow often Meta and X must report reach to Brazil’s electoral court Israel’s Count Is Done; the Integrity Argument Is Not £456mUK AI security, procurement and capability commitments, to be confirmed at the Budget India’s 10,000-GPU Tender Quietly Slips to 14 November 2 Decemberwhen the EU nudification ban and the marking duty become enforceable Three Legislatures, One Chatbot Problem 14MWHumain’s Nvidia Blackwell Phase 1, from Q4 2026 Chile Keeps Boric’s AI Bill Alive While Kast Reserves a Rewrite 700disinformation complaints logged by South Africa’s Electoral Commission The Baselines Are the News: What Britain’s Red Book Scores for AI 27 OctIsrael votes under its first deepfake-disclosure law A Covenant and a Queue Jump: How the UK Will Pick Its Data Centres 54risks listed in China’s AI Safety Governance Framework 3.0, up from 30 €30bn+EU call for up to seven AI gigafactories 554deepfakes logged in Brazil’s first round; only 371 labelled 30+AI firms sent the first AI Act information requests 164AI-made ads in the US midterms, by one count 42signatories to Canada’s voluntary data-centre principles 174MWCape Town data centre now under appeal 83 dayswait reported under Medicare’s AI pilot, against a 72-hour standard 20home-grown foundation models backed by the IndiaAI Mission 2%of Turkish public investment budgets earmarked for AI

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Regions

How governments in every region are writing the rules for AI, buying it and putting it to work. Choose a region, or read across them.

North America

Washington Writes ‘Super Intelligence’ Into the Rulebook

Three Legislatures, One Chatbot Problem The Agentic Civil Service Arrives, Rulebook Attached

Latin America

Brazil’s Platform Orders Outlive the Vote

Chile Keeps Boric’s AI Bill Alive While Kast Reserves a Rewrite Explain the Algorithm: Brazil Sets a Six-Hour Clock

Europe

The Baselines Are the News: What Britain’s Red Book Scores for AI

A Covenant and a Queue Jump: How the UK Will Pick Its Data Centres Tokyo and Berlin Link Their AI Safety Institutes

Middle East

Israel’s Count Is Done; the Integrity Argument Is Not

Türkiye Turns On Age Checks for New Social Media Accounts Gulf AI: One Institution, Three Memoranda, One Number

Africa

A Mandela Deepfake Tests South Africa’s Election Machinery

Two Sovereign Clouds: Rabat Budgets, Abuja Certifies 700 Complaints, Four Platform Partners, No Court Case

South Asia

India’s 10,000-GPU Tender Quietly Slips to 14 November

Dhaka Puts AI-Generated Content Into Its Cyber Law Draft Pakistan Promises an Urdu Model and Sovereign Compute

Asia-Pacific

Three Legislatures, One Chatbot Problem

Seoul Folds 243 Local Governments Into 16 Systems Tokyo and Berlin Link Their AI Safety Institutes

Global

163 to 5: New York Backs Talks on Autonomous Weapons

Washington Writes ‘Super Intelligence’ Into the Rulebook Report the Label, Not the F1