#AI governance

Databricks' AI Spend Control Plane Is Beta, Priceless, and Blind

Governance Hub puts token consumption and per-user model spend on one screen — for the traffic that already goes through Databricks' own gateway.

4d ago

Screenshot of the Databricks Governance Hub dashboard showing catalog and asset counts, an asset-usage chart and data-quality tiles

AI Regulation

OpenAI's $5m for Democratic Oversight Bodies Is Training and Credits, Not Cash

A national-security oversight initiative in which every commitment is future tense and the only number is denominated partly in OpenAI's own product.

Aug 19, 2026

OpenAI card on a blue gradient reading "Our approach to government and national security partnerships".

China AI Regulation

China Briefed 70 Countries at the UN on an Organisation That Does Not Yet Function

The World AI Cooperation Organization has 29 signatories and a headquarters in Shanghai. It has no disclosed budget, no secretariat and no ratification timetable.

Aug 1, 2026

The letters AI rendered in metallic type above a circuit board

AI Safety

A Letter Asking Washington to Slow AI Down Was Signed by the People Building It

'Pacing the Frontier' went live on Tuesday with 1,122 signatures. Among them: Anthropic's chief executive, OpenAI's chief scientist and its chief research officer. Both companies endorsed it within hours.

Jul 29, 2026

The Pacing the Frontier statement page on a pale blue background, headed with the title and the line 'A statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companies' above a 'Read the statement' button

AI Regulation

Malaysia Is Drafting a Binding AI Law, and It Looks a Lot Like Europe's

The National AI Office published a consultation document for an AI Governance Act with three risk tiers, incident reporting and a central authority — replacing voluntary ethics guidelines.

Jul 27, 2026

A stock illustration of a hand at a laptop keyboard overlaid with a glowing circuit graphic labelled AI

EU AI Act

European Parliament Plans In-House AI Hub For MEPs

The institution behind the AI Act is standing up a controlled 'EPGenAI Hub' for lawmakers and staff — a multi-model gateway meant to curb 'AI slop' while keeping sensitive data off public chatbots.

Jul 20, 2026

China AI Regulation

Xi Jinping Opens WAIC in Shanghai as 29 Countries Sign On to a China-Led AI Body

In his first in-person address to the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, China's president called AI 'a symphony of global cooperation' — while a new Shanghai-headquartered World AI Cooperation Organization formalized with 29 signatories.

Jul 17, 2026

Xi Jinping speaking at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai

China AI Regulation

Xi Jinping Will Headline China's Flagship AI Summit for the First Time

Beijing said on July 13 that President Xi will keynote the World AI Conference opening on July 17 — an upgrade from last year's premier-level billing — as China pushes a Shanghai-based global AI body to rival Washington.

Jul 13, 2026

Xi Jinping Will Headline China's Flagship AI Summit for the First Time

AI Regulation

UN Opens Its First Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva

The UN's first Global Dialogue on AI Governance convenes in Geneva on July 6, bringing member states together under one standing process to coordinate rules for the technology.

Jul 5, 2026