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1. Brazil Puts Algorithmic Reach on a Six-Hour Clock 180,000Japanese officials being moved onto the Digital Agency’s agent tooling 2. Europe's Rules Arrive on 2 December, Its Enforcers This Week $0.47what a US federal agency pays for Gemini for Government per year, until 15 November 3. Pennsylvania Gives Advertisers Eight Weeks $3,000Pennsylvania’s maximum civil fine under Act 99, from 21 December 4. The FCC's Robocall Waiver Is Still Open 6 hourshow often Meta and X must report reach to Brazil’s electoral court 5. Washington Renames AI in Its Own Paperwork £456mUK AI security, procurement and capability commitments, to be confirmed at the Budget 6. The Sponsor Lists Are the News in New York 2 Decemberwhen the EU nudification ban and the marking duty become enforceable 7. Pakistan Announces a Model It Has Not Tendered 14MWHumain’s Nvidia Blackwell Phase 1, from Q4 2026 8. South Africa Has 700 Complaints and No Court Case 700disinformation complaints logged by South Africa’s Electoral Commission 9. Morocco Gives AI a Minister 23AI technologies China proposes to add to its export-control catalogue 10. Australia's Data Centres Wait on Poles and Councils R$500,000daily fine behind the TSE’s order that Meta treat both run-off candidates alike The Agentic Civil Service Arrives, Rulebook Attached 72 hoursincident notice under GSA clause 552.239-7001, in new GSA AI contracts Explain the Algorithm: Brazil Sets a Six-Hour Clock 8US states that sued OpenAI under consumer and privacy law on 14 October 700 Complaints, Four Platform Partners, No Court Case 10,000AI compute units in C-DAC’s sovereign GPU empanelment Gulf AI: One Institution, Three Memoranda, One Number 6staff at Poland’s new AI regulator, KRiBSI, as complaints open on 28 October Pennsylvania Makes Advertisers Confess Their AI 0.64face-match threshold in the Home Office’s live facial recognition policy Ottawa Says Data-Centre Power Is Not Its Problem 134data-centre grid policies the IEA counted across more than 34 jurisdictions Peru Names an AI Officer in Every Ministry 27 OctIsrael votes under its first deepfake-disclosure law Britain Prices Its AI Security State 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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China Turns Model Weights Into a Controlled Export

China's Announcement No. 48 treats installing a frontier Chinese model on foreign servers as a technology export. For governments building sovereign clouds on Chinese weights, the licence now matters as much as the chips.

A Hotline for Machines

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Two Blocs, One Technology

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The Agentic State and the Price of Sovereignty

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