An op-ed argues that Australia's two major parties are converging on a big bet on AI just as public support is collapsing. The authors say workers expect government protection from AI harms and that a reform solution is available.
Since 2 August 2026, all synthetic content in Europe must carry a detectable mark. The piece argues that this technical obligation foreshadows a broader shift in how human work is valued.
With AI tools increasingly used in sales prospecting to guess professional email addresses, France's data protection authority has set out the applicable law. The practice is not banned outright but must follow certain rules.
France's CNSA had disability centres (MDPH) test an AI tool that sorts scanned paper files and checks whether applications are complete, using files of deceased people as test data. Site reports were due on 30 September, but as of 20 October the results and method had not been published.
Anthropic told US lawmakers it will rewrite part of the draft AI safety bill it had been circulating on Capitol Hill, after Politico published the confidential text. Critics in the AI safety community said the bill was weaker than existing proposals.
According to Politico, OpenAI has stopped pushing for strict US limits on advanced chip sales to China after openly calling for them for much of last year. Congressional aides and lobbyists say the company has gone quiet on the issue; TNW did not independently verify the report.