The Labor Department will stop accepting permanent labor certification filings from Microsoft, Adobe and six IT services firms, Vice President JD Vance said. Microsoft says most of its H-1B filings were for people it already employs.
The city council's lead AI bill would make it unlawful to sell or deploy a model in New York without third-party validation and an off switch, at $25,000 per instance. On Monday it questioned the labs. None of their representatives raised a hand when asked who carried insurance against catastrophic risk.
The SEC rewrote its quorum rule on Wednesday and made the change effective on Friday, the day it went from three members to two. On any matter from which one of the two is disqualified, the other can now act for the commission alone.
arXiv took in 40,363 submissions in September, a record, and almost 9,000 support tickets with them. From this month each submitter may send it two papers a month. Its own monthly figures show September's rise was the largest in the archive's history, by a wide margin.
The accord six AI chiefs signed with the President on Tuesday asks each company for internal controls, a team to police them, an outside auditor and an independent board committee. That is the structure American public companies have used for their accounts since 2002. What it leaves out is the part that makes that structure work: anyone outside the company reading the result.
The dollar cost more than 2.5 million rials in Tehran's open market on Tuesday, a record. The central bank's rate for exchange offices is 1.71 million. That official price is now weaker than the street price was the week before the war began, and the street has moved another 49 per cent beyond it.
The price label modelled on the nutrition panel took effect this week in a trimmed form: a link instead of a label at the point of sale, and fees bundled into an 'up to'.
A coalition of 23 industry groups used Toronto to argue that the reach of global platforms is displacing the commissions that domestic storytelling depends on.
Legislators have moved from asking data centres about electricity to asking them about water, and the disclosure requests are arriving first.
Federal buying requirements bind on signature. Legislation does not, and vendors are already rewriting products to match the contract terms.
Compute is the industrial base of the next economy, and the states winning it are doing what smart industrial policy has always done.
Data center incentives hand public money and public water to trillion-dollar firms while ratepayers cover the grid bill. Communities deserve a better deal.
The laws are written; now come the technical standards, audits, and enforcement decisions that will determine what they actually mean.
Communities courting computing infrastructure are weighing tax revenue against power, water, and the political limits of industrial land use.
Governments competing for AI infrastructure are discovering that approval speed outbids subsidy size.
Market structure and stablecoin frameworks are in place across major economies, and the industry's complaint has shifted from uncertainty to cost.
Audit committees are adding AI to their charters, demanding inventories of deployed systems and clarity on who answers when one fails.
Early cases over automated decisions and agent actions are sketching who pays when software errs, ahead of any statute.
Double-counting and phantom credits pushed registries toward shared records; the technology is proving easier than the governance.
Transfer frameworks, sovereign cloud offerings, and certification schemes are replacing open conflict with expensive coexistence.
Governments have stepped back from restricting model releases, settling on transparency duties and capability thresholds instead.
Procurement reform and battlefield-proven categories have pulled mainstream venture funds into a sector they long avoided.
With frameworks enacted, the action has moved to licensing queues, reserve examinations, and the fine print of redemption.
Mandatory disclosure windows are standardizing how fast operators must tell regulators, and readiness has become a drill.
New plants are landing in regions whose supplier and labor systems run on spreadsheets, and the digital retrofit is its own industrial policy.