ASIC joins global regulators monitoring Anthropic’s Mythos AI for banking system risks
ASIC joins global regulators monitoring Anthropic’s Mythos AI for banking system risks

Australia’s markets regulator has publicly confirmed it is watching the development of Anthropic’s Mythos model alongside peer regulators worldwide, adding to a rapidly expanding international regulatory response that began with the Bank of England, th…

The EU has told Google what it must do to share search data with rivals
The EU has told Google what it must do to share search data with rivals

The European Commission today sent Google its preliminary findings under the Digital Markets Act, proposing six specific measures governing how Google must share search ranking, query, click, and view data with competing search engines. AI chatbots wit…

UK banks get their Mythos briefing within days
UK banks get their Mythos briefing within days

The Bank of England’s Cross Market Operational Resilience Group will convene within days to brief major UK banks, insurers, and exchanges about Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview. This unreleased AI model regulators say can autonomously identify and exp…

The EU says its age verification app is ready
The EU says its age verification app is ready

Announced by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and digital chief Virkkunen, the open-source app uses zero-knowledge proof technology to let users confirm their age without exposing personal data to platforms. It enters a pilot phase with member…

A grand jury is trying to force Reddit to unmask a user who criticised ICE
A grand jury is trying to force Reddit to unmask a user who criticised ICE

On the evening of 7 January 2026, ICE officer Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good, a 37-year-old woman, in Minneapolis. Within days, Ross was named publicly: The Intercept identified him and published biographical details, and other news organisation…

Greece will ban under-15s from social media from 2027, and wants the EU to follow
Greece will ban under-15s from social media from 2027, and wants the EU to follow

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the ban in a TikTok video on Wednesday. It takes effect on 1 January 2027. Enforcement will rely on a state-mandated app on every device. Around 80% of Greeks support the measure, according to a February poll. Greece ha…

EU lawmakers deal to ban AI non-consensual intimate deepfakes
EU lawmakers deal to ban AI non-consensual intimate deepfakes

A March 11 political agreement on AI Act amendments will add an explicit prohibition on non-consensual intimate AI-generated images, direct fallout from the Grok scandal. It took a scandal, a wave of regulatory anger, and a coalition of 57 European Par…

OpenAI signs Pentagon AI deal after Trump orders Anthropic ban
OpenAI signs Pentagon AI deal after Trump orders Anthropic ban

OpenAI has reached an agreement with the Pentagon to deploy its artificial intelligence models in classified military systems, just hours after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using rival Anthropic’s technology. The announcement…

OpenAI signs Pentagon AI deal after Trump orders Anthropic ban
OpenAI signs Pentagon AI deal after Trump orders Anthropic ban

OpenAI has reached an agreement with the Pentagon to deploy its artificial intelligence models in classified military systems, just hours after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using rival Anthropic’s technology. The announcement…

UK brings streaming giants like Netflix, Amazon and Disney+ under broadcaster-style regulation
UK brings streaming giants like Netflix, Amazon and Disney+ under broadcaster-style regulation

The UK government announced new regulatory requirements that will bring major video-on-demand (VoD) platforms under tighter oversight by Ofcom, aligning them more closely with traditional television broadcasters. The changes are part of implementing th…