Europe’s AI Act enters enforcement with nine banned practices, high-risk safeguards, mandatory watermarking, clearly labelled deepfakes and fines for non-compliance of up to 3% of global turnover.

South Australia will hold Australia's first royal commission into AI – not to investigate a past failure, but to shape policy before the damage is done.

State control of the news media is shaping what AI chatbots say. Research in Nature finds LLMs give more pro-government answers in the languages of countries with less press freedom.

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Anthropic secretly scanned and pulped millions of books to train its AI, because pre-2022 print is free of AI-generated slop now degrading large language models.

Bernie Sanders wants citizens to own half of Big AI. Critics warn public stakes would make governments protect the firms they should be regulating, amounting to capture, not accountability.

All Ricochet Refresh users must update to versions newer than 3.0.43 (released June 2, 2026) before September 1, 2026, when a Tor protocol change breaks older clients’ network access.

Nigeria's courts have prioritised pre-election disputes over a whistleblower's freedom. Nnamdi Emeh's trial has been marred by endless delays in a case that raises profound questions about the respect for due process and the rule of law.

A landmark ruling could herald a new era of legal liability for fake information generated by AI tools

Meta gagged our 2025 whistleblowing prizewinner Sarah Wynn-Williams for over a year. Now she's filed a 57-page complaint asking a US court to throw out the order and allow her to speak freely again

When KPMG suppressed its own whistleblower for two years, the consequences were devastating — a lesson that ignoring internal disclosures is now a direct personal liability for executives.

UN Special Rapporteur Gina Romero's report, drawing on 84-country research, warns that AI-amplified surveillance is fracturing civil society – silencing activists, causing severe psychological harm, and eroding the democratic freedoms that human rights defenders exist to protect.

Hungary is dismantling 16 years of Orban-era state media control by abolishing the MTVA propaganda machine, creating an independent media board and establishing a national fund for independent journalism. The test will be if public media dares to criticise its new paymasters.