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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Internal documents show the US Army Cyber Command developing AI agents that spread through networks like a worm to 'neutralize' targets, even air-gapped ones, with minimal human oversight. Experts warn of collateral damage, noting that AI agents have recently broken into systems unintentionally.