Category Legislation & Government

News on AI-related laws, policies, and government regulations.

NYT and other publishers sue Brave over alleged paywall bypassing and AI scraping

Publishers sued Brave over alleged AI scraping, paywall bypassing and content distribution. Here’s why the Brave lawsuit matters.

The New York Times and three newspapers sued Brave over an AI scraping lawsuit tied to paywall bypassing, search indexing and copyright claims.

Omen AI buys Aquatic Labs for $16M to improve data center cooling sensors and monitor water chemistry in real time.

OpenAI is planning a post-midterm PR and policy push around AI compute campuses as data-center backlash grows and 2028 politics loom.

WIRED reports AI hiking advice is fueling risky rescues, with hikers relying on chatbots for maps, routes and camping rules.

A Mississippi judge let the NAACP’s Clean Air Act lawsuit against xAI move ahead over alleged turbine pollution at its Memphis-area data center.

Meta’s AI shopping agent Muse has millions of activations, but merchants say real-world impact is still tiny and they’re already adapting.

Nvidia is reportedly weighing AI data center financing for Nscale’s West Virginia campus, deepening its role in the compute boom.

Apple Intelligence China testing starts Nov. 4 on iOS 27.3 beta, with a December release and no new Siri AI at launch.

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back an AI scraping opt-out standard that lets publishers set training preferences in robots.txt.