Regulation

Business 7 min NHTSA Is Auditing Tesla's Cybercab Certification. Zoox Took Four Years and an Exemption. Audit query AQ26002 opened the day the Cybercab began carrying passengers. It does not investigate a crash — i... EV Eva Chin 5 Sep Business 7 min Tesla's Cybercab Is Carrying Passengers in Austin, With 45 Vehicles Authorised Tesla is carrying paying passengers in a two-seater with no steering wheel. The launch was a closed event with... EV Eva Chin 4 Sep Business 7 min Nobody Could Be Found to Buy AdX, So Google Keeps It Brinkema rejected the AdX divestiture and ordered behavioural remedies. One stated reason was that no credible... EV Eva Chin 3 Sep Business 7 min The UK Cyber Bill Leaves Out AI Vendors, and Also the Government The bill can order a power station to stop using a particular AI model, while imposing no duty on whoever buil... EV Eva Chin 3 Sep Finance 6 min Forty-Four State Attorneys General Say the CFTC Has No Business Here Polymarket has raised US$300m while 44 state attorneys general fight the CFTC over jurisdiction. If an event c... SA Sarah Chew 1 Sep Consumer Tech 8 min Waymo's Software Injured 16 Test Drivers. The Record Says Transdev. Every public argument about robotaxi safety concerns passengers and pedestrians. The only injuries anyone has... AM Amelia Wong 31 Aug Consumer Tech 6 min New Jersey's Robotaxi Bill Would Exclude Tesla Without Naming It S1677 mentions no manufacturer and mandates no technology. It requires a camera system plus two further sensin... AM Amelia Wong 30 Aug Consumer Tech 7 min London's Robotaxis Are Late Because the Regulator Has Not Written the Rules Uber and Wayve, Waymo and Baidu are all stalled at the same point, and it is not engineering. Transport for Lo... AM Amelia Wong 29 Aug Cloud & Infra 7 min Australia Agreed to Write Data Centre Rules, Not to Mandate Renewables National Cabinet committed to mandatory energy, water and land-use standards by early 2027. Queensland and the... KE Kenji Tanaka 29 Aug ASEAN Tech 8 min Vietnam's AI Law Has Been In Force Since March, And The Deadlines Start Next Year Southeast Asia's first standalone AI law took effect on 1 March, applies to foreign as well as domestic entiti... SA Sarah Chew 23 Aug Privacy & Data 8 min Malaysia's Under-16 Rules Let Platforms Check Your Age Without Ever Seeing Your ID Age verification has been in force since 1 June for platforms above eight million users, with penalties to RM1... PR Priya Nair 23 Aug Consumer Tech 8 min From 30 September, Indonesia, Singapore And Thailand Get Android's New Sideloading Rules First On certified devices in four launch markets, apps will need a verified developer behind them to install or upd... AM Amelia Wong 23 Aug Health & Wellness 8 min Twenty-One US States Now Regulate Clinical AI, And They Do Not Agree Thirty-three healthcare AI laws were enacted by the end of 2025, from more than 250 bills introduced across 47... AM Amelia Wong 22 Aug ASEAN Tech 8 min The Project Linking ASEAN's Payment Systems Has A Company, A Tender And Two Go-Live Dates Nexus would connect India's UPI, Singapore's PayNow and Thailand's PromptPay through one hub. Governance sits... SA Sarah Chew 22 Aug Business 8 min California Now Requires The Big AI Providers To Publish A Detector For Their Own Output SB 942 became operative on 2 August. Generative AI services with more than a million monthly users must ship a... EV Eva Chin 22 Aug Privacy & Data 8 min Korea's AI Law Has Been In Force Seven Months. The Maximum Fine Is About US$20,000. The AI Basic Act and its Enforcement Decree took effect on 22 January. Penalties cap at ₩30m, are suspended fo... PR Priya Nair 22 Aug Consumer Tech 8 min Nevada Approved Thousands Of Robotaxis. Tesla's Own Engineer Says They Will Not Arrive. The Nevada Transportation Authority granted Tesla up to 5,000 vehicles, Waymo 1,000 and Uber 1,000 across Clar... AM Amelia Wong 22 Aug Cybersecurity 10 min Singapore Will Hold Infrastructure Boards Accountable for Recovery, Not Just Defence CSA said on 22 July that the rewritten Code of Practice will require critical-infrastructure boards to maintai... KE Kenji Tanaka 21 Aug Business 8 min Amazon Is Taking Drone Delivery To Nearly 500 US Towns This Year A sixfold expansion from 11 sites, with the MK30 limited to five-pound packages. That limit turns out to cover... EV Eva Chin 20 Aug Privacy & Data 11 min Claude Now Watermarks Its Text. Here Is Who Else Does, and How to Read Any of It. What Claude marks and since when, what C2PA and Article 50 actually require, what Vietnam and Singapore demand... PR Priya Nair 11 Aug Finance 6 min The Card Networks Just Agreed to Run Nodes on a Blockchain Visa, Mastercard, DTCC, ICE and BlackRock are among eleven founding validators on Circle's Arc. Fees are paid... SA Sarah Chew 11 Aug Consumer Tech 6 min Wetherspoon Did Not Ban Smart Glasses. It Banned Filming With Them. More than 800 pubs, and the rule is about the recording rather than the device. That distinction is more durab... AM Amelia Wong 11 Aug Finance 6 min Google Will Hold Your Child's Money. It Is Not a Bank Account. A stored balance for under-18s, controlled through Family Link, with real-time visibility of every transaction... DA Daniel Koh 11 Aug Privacy & Data 8 min A Judge Called Meta a Public Nuisance. He Left the Algorithm Alone. New Mexico won $567 million and an injunction over teen safety. The court declined to touch the recommendation... PR Priya Nair 11 Aug