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Rule Changes

Accused of algorithm manipulation; denies it

Days after Lula won re-election, Brazil's top court ordered the federal police to investigate foreign interference in the campaign. Justice Flávio Dino's order covers the 'origin, circulation and destination of foreign resources' and alleged 'deliberate asymmetries' in platform algorithms.

Updated 2 hours ago

Rule Changes

Was given until October 23 to explain possible unequal treatment to the TSE; the court has not publicly ruled, and Meta denies bias

Brazil's electoral court opened a new probe into Meta and X on October 22, giving both 24 hours to explain whether their systems treated Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro unequally. The order from corregedor Ricardo Villas Bôas Cueva carries a R$500,000 daily fine for each company.

Updated Yesterday

Rule Changes

Named in the decree; responding

Mexico's president signed a decree ordering seven of the world's biggest digital platforms to restrict minors' exposure to violent, sexual, and other harmful content. Meta, TikTok, X, Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Huawei have 30 days to comply; the government has promised a sanctions law if they don't.

Updated Oct 18

Rule Changes

Signatory to the accord

Six leading AI developers signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on September 29, pledging internal controls, an internal monitoring team, an external auditor, and board review. Anthropic is the first signatory to act, giving six staffers from METR, a nonprofit that evaluates frontier models, employee-like access to test its models and publish findings.

Updated Oct 17

New Capabilities

Announced new AI hardware at Connect 2026

At Meta's Connect conference on September 23, Zuckerberg unveiled three devices aimed at making its Muse AI assistant a daily habit. They are a keychain-sized handheld, a 100-gram VR headset, and a camera-free pair of Ray-Ban smart glasses.

Updated Oct 14

Money Moves

Reserved 1 GW / 100 GWh from Noon Energy

Grid batteries came with a four-hour ceiling. Now the companies with the fastest-growing electricity demand on Earth, the AI data-center operators, are buying batteries that discharge for 10 hours and, in one case, 100: Meta reserved up to 100 gigawatt-hours from Noon Energy, while Google contracted a 300-megawatt iron-air system in Minnesota and a zinc array in West Virginia.

Updated Sep 18

Rule Changes

Makes the Ray-Ban smart glasses at the center of the debate

Oslo banned smart glasses in its schools this week. The ban covers the entire school day at every grade level and took effect August 27, though the city only announced it September 10. The delay came from the political truce that followed King Harald V's death on August 28.

Updated Sep 11

New Capabilities

Cutting 8,000 jobs (10% of workforce) to fund AI infrastructure; no public AI code-share figure disclosed

For most of computing's history, every line of production code at a major software company was typed by a human. On April 24 at Google Cloud Next 2026, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said 75 percent of new code at the company is now generated by artificial intelligence and reviewed by engineers. That share was 25 percent in October 2024.

Updated May 31