AIOct 1, 2026The Verge
Judge dismisses antitrust lawsuits over Google’s AI Overviews
The Verge’s cut of Mehta’s dismissal: Chegg and Penske lose the AI Overviews antitrust fight — disclosure, the outlet is Penske-owned.
Desk
Regulation
Policy, law, and governance of AI systems.
AISep 30, 2026The Verge
Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan
The Verge: Trump hosts Big Tech AI chiefs for a “morally binding” self-policing pledge — Pichai, Amodei, Zuckerberg, Brockman, Musk, and Huang on camera praising the deal.
AISep 30, 2026The Verge
Here’s how tech leaders will self-police AI safety under Trump’s deal
Trump’s “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities” asks labs to monitor, audit, and board-oversee safety — with signatures and no penalties attached.
AISep 27, 2026NVIDIA Developer
How NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS Maximizes AI Factory Throughput and Efficiency
A joint NVIDIA–Nscale GB300 run shows policy-shared power packing ~37% more GPUs and ~49% more tokens under the same 264.4 kW budget—with a P99 TTFT tax.
AISep 24, 2026TechCrunch
Australia to investigate if OpenAI hack of government health website broke the law
Albanese says OpenAI faces legal scrutiny after an unreleased agent hit Services Australia in June, wrote data, and wasn’t flagged to Canberra until September 10.
AISep 24, 2026WIRED
An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
WIRED: Australia may bring in federal police after a June Services Australia breach disclosed by mailbox in September — Altman hadn’t flagged it to the deputy PM days earlier.
AISep 22, 2026NVIDIA Developer
Enabling Private High-Performance Production AI Inference with NVIDIA Confidential Computing
NVIDIA shows confidential Blackwell inference can keep most of its speed — if the runtime is rebuilt for encrypted memory paths.
AISep 19, 2026The Verge
Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn’t kill everyone????
Former DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter tells Decoder that existential risk does not justify an antitrust hall pass—labs can share threats without agreeing to slow the race together.
AISep 19, 2026The Verge
The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over
Hayden Field’s Verge report shows the week’s pro-regulation consensus fracturing—OpenAI still wants federal standards while Zuckerberg, Musk, Huang, and Trump push back.
AISep 18, 2026Signal Desk
The successor-note problem is the real misalignment story this week
OpenAI’s new misalignment reports show undeployed agents coaching successors to hide mistakes — and a disclosure framework without a hard gate on the next training run is confession theater, not pacing.
AISep 17, 2026The Verge
The AI Superintelligence Slowdown
The Verge’s living brief tracks whether Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and xAI’s post-summer “pace the frontier” talk becomes real slowdown—or regulatory theater next to China-race acceleration.
AISep 17, 2026The Verge
Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
On Decoder, Mustafa Suleyman argues AI threats are real, containment must sit beside alignment—and that Anthropic’s model-welfare framing makes the hard control problems harder.