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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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North America

Washington, Ottawa and the states and provinces: how the United States and Canada govern, buy and argue about AI.

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 State’s Chatbot Has Opinions

Within days of launch, Washington's AI front door was reported to have changed what it said about elections and presidential terms. The real question is not who is right, but who decides, and how anyone would know.

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.

The Decision Gap

Problems rarely arrive unannounced. The real failure of modern government is the distance between when a signal is available and when someone with authority acts on it, and that distance can be measured.

Beyond Dashboards

Governments have never counted more and decided less clearly. A review of 108 dashboard studies, and a stark gap between how officials and residents see public AI, suggest the chart of mentions is the wrong instrument.

Seeing the State in Motion

Government is not a single building but a moving system of tiers, departments and languages. One issue has many owners and many voices, and a state that reads only its dominant language sees only part of itself.

From Signal to Decision

Between noticing and acting lies the hardest stretch of government. On rumour, denial, silence and speed, and why the choice made at hour six should never be made on evidence fit only for hour sixty.

A Hotline for Machines

Washington and Beijing have agreed their first institutional channel for AI risks. It is a real step, but without a shared definition of an AI incident, nobody yet knows when either side should pick up the phone.

Rejected by an Algorithm

Records from Medicare's AI prior-authorisation pilot show thousands of denials, an 83-day wait against a 72-hour standard and vendors paid more when they say no. The flaw is not only the software; it is the contract.