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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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Brussels, Westminster and the capitals: the AI Act in practice, digital sovereignty and AI inside European states.

A Covenant and a Queue Jump: How the UK Will Pick Its Data Centres

The Treasury's Data Centre Covenant trades grid priority and faster planning for five tests on bills, communities, environment, jobs and security. What binds, what merely encourages, who decides which projects count as strategic, and why the consultation record matters.

Tokyo and Berlin Link Their AI Safety Institutes

Japan and Germany have agreed to link their AI safety institutes, open a high-level AI dialogue and coordinate on a Japan-hosted AI Summit. The pledges sit inside an economic-security declaration aimed at critical-mineral coercion; none of the nine memoranda on Tokyo's list covers AI.

Report the Label, Not the F1

A single accuracy or F1 figure hides which label fails, for whom, and how far the test set sits from live data. Six preprints and a National Audit Office case study show what a monitoring contract should demand instead: per-label agreement with a human baseline.

The Agentic Civil Service Arrives, Rulebook Attached

Japan began moving 180,000 officials onto AI agents, Singapore named agent test metrics a contract could measure and Washington defined the incident categories for agents that act uninstructed — all in ten days. A comparison of what each regime requires of an agent deployer.

Britain Prices Its AI Security State

HM Treasury has itemised roughly £456m for AI security, procurement and capability, to be confirmed at the Budget on 28 October 2026. The Commons Library sets out what the money does not buy: an AI act, or a regulator with powers.

Europe’s Deepfake Deadline Is 2 December

Two AI Act duties become enforceable on 2 December: the ban on nudification systems, and machine-readable marking for generative systems already on the market. For the biggest platforms the enforcer is Brussels, not a member state.

What a Police AI Trial Measured, and What It Missed

Documents released under Right to Information show how Tasmania Police evaluated Axon's Draft One: a careful time study wrapped around a thin account of harm. Here is the evaluation design the next force should run.

Brussels Said Nothing About AI. That Was the Message

EU leaders' October summit conclusions never mention artificial intelligence. The same week, the Commission drafted its procedure for fining large AI systems and the General Court upheld its method for counting platform users. Europe's AI policy is now made below summit level.

A Prompt Is a Policy. Govern It Like One

Brazil's Senate auditors have published 57 ready-to-copy prompts, and Brussels now asks researchers to decide which prompts and model versions to keep. New preprints show why shared prompts need owners, versions and test cases.

The 0.64 Setting: One Number Carries the Fairness Case

Britain's Immigration Enforcement will raise facial recognition alerts only at a similarity score of 0.64, and its equality case rests on that setting. The testing behind it shows what the number buys, and what it costs in missed matches.