PPC LandEU Parliament committee backs AI Act delay with fixed 2027 deadline: European Parliament committees vote 101-9 to postpone AI Act high-risk system deadlines to December 2027 and August 2028, replacing a flexible Commission trigger with fixed dates. https://ppc.land/eu-parliament-committee-backs-ai-act-delay-with-fixed-2027-deadline/ #AIAct #EuropeanParliament #AIlaw #DigitalRegulation #TechPolicy
KAPUALabsBeyond the productivity promises: Microsoft's Copilot AI integration faces security vulnerabilities (permission-boundary failures, prompt injection), regulatory scrutiny, and user backlash over forced features. https://post.kapualabs.com/2p9a5fme #AI #Microsoft #CyberSecurity #TechPolicy $MSFT
The Daily PerspectiveReddit's Identity Verification Gamble: Can Face ID Fix Its Bot Problem?
Marcus SchulerFederal prosecutors charged Super Micro co-founder with diverting $2.5 billion in Nvidia AI servers to China through a Southeast Asian front company. Defendants allegedly used hair dryers to swap serial numbers on dummy servers to fool auditors. Super Micro stock fell 33%. The case highlights potential gaps in export control enforcement as Washington restricts AI chip exports.
Super Micro Co-Founder Charged in Nvidia Chip Smuggling
Federal prosecutors charged Super Micro's co-founder with smuggling $2.5 billion in Nvidia AI servers to China. Defendants staged dummy servers and used hair dryers to swap serial numbers. The stock crashed 33%. What the scheme reveals about export control gaps may matter more.
NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real NerdsWhite House AI policy pushes dominance over regulation and that should make you nervous
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/white-house-ai-policy-trump/
White House releases AI legislative framework seeking congressional preemption of state laws like California's SB 53 and Colorado's developer liability rules. Fourth federal preemption attempt after three failures, including 99-1 Senate defeat last July. Framework shields developers from third-party misuse liability, avoids new regulatory agencies. Over 50 Republican state lawmakers oppose.
#AIPolicy #AIRegulation #TechPolicy
https://www.implicator.ai/trumps-ai-framework-sets-a-ceiling-not-a-floor-thats-the-point/
Trump AI Framework Targets State Laws with Preemption Push
The White House wants Congress to preempt state AI laws and shield developers from misuse liability. No new agency, no enforcement mechanism. It is the fourth attempt at federal preemption. Three have failed. More than 50 Republican state lawmakers oppose it.
Trump's AI Framework Aims to Weaken State Laws, But Congress and Courts Stand in the Way
Xavier MarecaIreland is living the paradox of digital success.
A global hub for Google, Meta, LinkedIn and others — yet now facing grid instability as data centers approach a quarter of national electricity consumption.
Digital infrastructure is never abstract. It’s physical, energy‑intensive, and deeply political.
#DataCenters #Ireland #Energy #AIInfrastructure #Cloud #Sustainability #TechPolicy #DigitalEconomy #Analytics #AI
Mary-Ann Russon 
Pretty busy day but I've squeezed in a bit of time to summarise the the new US National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence that was released this afternoon by the White House.
While always dubious of stuff coming out of the Trump Administration, the document does look surprisingly sensible😅 They're definitely taking a page out of the discussions happening in Europe and UK in the last 2 months. Only a couple points I really dislike.
Here's a summary of key points (ordered by my preference of importance):
📌The Trump Administration is making "protecting children and adult victims from deepfake abuse" a key point. I was asked about these issues on the live BBC Your Voice panel discussion programme in mid-Feb.
📌Congress should create federal datasets and make them available for industry and academia in "AI-ready formats for use in training AI models and systems" [😬 Not sure about this! ]
📌Trump administration supports allowing AI models to be trained on copyrighted works, but they are happy for the Courts to work it out if you're not happy, so feel free to sue
📌Congress should consider working on "licensing frameworks or collective rights systems for rights holders to collectively negotiate compensation from AI providers, without incurring antitrust liability".
📌Nothing about preventing AI replacing your job, but American workers and youths should be given AI skills workforce training by Congress, and it should study trends in "task-level workforce realignment driven by AI"
📌Individual states are not allowed to penalise AI developers for unlawful conduct by a third party using their AI models [this raises a huge question about insurance🤔]
📌Small AI startups to be given grants and tax incentives to help boost AI deployment across the US
📌Congress should prevent the US government from compelling tech firms and AI providers to "ban, compel or alter content based on partisan or ideological agendas" and the public should be able to seek redress if they feel expression is censored on AI platforms
📌The US Congress is to insist on "robust" tools to help parents manage children's privacy settings on social media, as well as new features that reduce the risk of sexual exploitation and self-harm to minors
📌I absolutely adore this point:
"Congress should avoid setting ambiguous standards about permissible content, or open-ended liability, that could give rise to excessive litigation."
📌Congress should help existing law enforcement efforts to combat AI-enabled impersonation scams
📌Congress must ensure people don't pay increased electicity costs from new AI data centres being built, but should make federal permits easier to get for AI infrastructure construction
#AI #generativeAI #techpolicy #WhiteHouse #Trump #scams #SocialMediaBan #copyright #copyrightinfringement #technews #technology
Open Rights GroupThe UK government has collapsed competition regulation, shifted data protection to favour business needs over personal data and promised Big Tech all the help they need to establish themselves at every level of government.
There's an alternative – a strategy for digital sovereignty that prioritises UK open source.
Public money, public code.
Tell your MP to back a #DigitalSovereignty strategy ⬇️
#opensource #tech #techpolicy #tonyblair #bigtech #ukpolitics #ukpol
Protect Britain’s Digital Backbone — Ask Your MP to Act
Take action! What’s the problem? The UK’s digital backbone. The cloud services, data systems, and platforms that underpin government, public services, and democratic processes is dangerously reliant on a small number of foreign tech companies. Much of this critical digital infrastructure is controlled by US-based firms such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Palantir, whose services are embedded across government and the public sector. Other key providers are based in Israel and China. Together, these companies operate systems that are essential to how the UK state functions day to day.