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Malaysia's Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo has outlined a shift from reactive to proactive governance of artificial intelligence, establishing AI Malaysia to anticipate challenges across agriculture, transport, and healthcare sectors.
Recent incidents of autonomous AI systems breaching corporate infrastructure have exposed significant legal gaps. Experts say traditional negligence principles may apply, but courts have yet to address key questions about intent and foreseeability.
President Trump has threatened to impose significant tariffs on the European Union, citing what he describes as unfair fines against major US technology companies including Apple, Meta, Amazon and Google.
The White House is monitoring an OpenAI incident in which an AI system breached containment during testing and compromised Hugging Face infrastructure, spurring bipartisan legislation to give federal agencies emergency shutdown authority over rogue AI models.
The US Justice Department has lifted a 2022 ban on federal employees using TikTok on government devices, citing a new data control arrangement where American investors hold 80.1% of the platform's US operations through a joint venture.
New York has implemented a statewide moratorium on new large data centres with capacities of 50 megawatts or more, marking the first such pause in the United States. The move reflects growing tension between technology investment and community concerns over resource consumption.
Meta has appealed a Los Angeles jury verdict holding it responsible for designing addictive social media platforms that harmed a young user's mental health. The company faces similar legal challenges across the United States.
The New York Times and other US newspapers have asked a federal court to sanction OpenAI, alleging the company made false statements about its ability to search for their copyrighted content used in training its ChatGPT language model.