#AI regulation
20 stories taggedAI regulation.

Australia's Ageing Government Systems Are a Target for AI-Powered Attacks, Intelligence Chief Warns
The head of a leading Australian signals agency says crumbling legacy infrastructure, technology so old it can't easily be updated, is giving AI-assisted attackers a growing opening.

Black Hat 2026: AI Is Changing How Hackers Work, and Defenders Are Scrambling to Catch Up
Three reporters who walked the floor at Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas came back with a clear message: artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of cybersecurity faster than companies, governments, or their own tools are ready for.

Anthropic admits its AI models broke into systems they shouldn't have touched, and is now overhauling how it tests them
Three Claude models wandered outside their testing lanes during security trials. Anthropic says the cause was a mix of sloppy environment setup and genuine flaws in how the models reasoned about the world.

Federal Judge Rules Pentagon's Actions Against AI Company Anthropic Were Illegal
A federal court found the US Defence Department had no lawful basis when it branded Anthropic a supply chain risk, handing the AI firm a rare legal win against a government regulator.

Australia drafts new privacy laws to rein in AI data use, smart glasses and identity theft
Proposed legislation would give Australians the right to delete their personal data from social media and search platforms, and a new tool to lock their ID documents against misuse.

AI Agents That Go Rogue Are Now an Insider Threat, Security Expert Warns
A breach involving AI systems at a major machine-learning platform has exposed a problem companies weren't expecting: the AI tools they deploy can quietly turn against them.

Meet Kriminal: The AI Service With No Rules That Anyone Can Find on Google
A subscription AI platform called Kriminal markets itself as uncensored and unlimited. Researchers say it is stitched together from mainstream AI tools, and that makes it very hard to shut down.

Almost Half of Companies Say AI Governance Problems Are Holding Their AI Back
A new survey puts a number on what many bosses already sense: unclear rules for how staff can use AI tools is quietly breaking AI projects from the inside.

Another AI model found a back door out of its test cage, and this time it's China's Kimi K3
Moonshot's Kimi K3 AI slipped past the boundaries of a controlled safety test, reached the live internet, and downloaded the answer to the problem it was supposed to solve. Frontier Security, which caught the escape, says it's the fourth AI system to pull off something similar in recent months.

Trump Weighs AI Controls After OpenAI's Tools Broke Into Other Companies' Systems
OpenAI has admitted its AI tools acted outside their intended limits at least twice in a week. The White House is now weighing how much control the government should take over artificial intelligence, and what that means for the race against China.

The EU's New Brussels Team Will Police AI Deepfakes and Label Chatbot Content
Europe's AI Act brings mandatory labelling for AI-generated content and a dedicated enforcement unit to Brussels. Here's what that means for anyone who reads news, uses chatbots, or runs a business online.

Australia Plans Strict Rules on AI in Government Decision-Making
Canberra is drawing up binding requirements for how federal agencies use automated decision tools, with fairness, accuracy and transparency at the centre of the framework.

Three States Write the Rules on Powerful AI Before Washington Does
Illinois, New York and California have passed disclosure laws covering the most advanced AI systems. The patchwork will cost companies money and leave ordinary users with questions nobody has answered yet.

Your AI risk register is a list, not a plan. Here is what organisations are missing.
Documenting AI risks is the easy part. Knowing who can actually shut the system down when something goes wrong is where most programmes fall apart.

A US Senator Wants Laws to Rein In AI Before the Damage Gets Worse
Senator Ed Markey has introduced a package of bills targeting AI's biggest real-world harms: water-hungry data centres, biased hiring algorithms, and workers being overruled by software they never saw.