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Connecticut stands at a familiar crossroads: energized lawmakers pressing for guardrails around artificial intelligence, a governor’s office urging caution to avoid driving away businesses, and a business community warning that heavy-handed rules could stifle investment. As the 2026 legislative...

Algorithms Take Over Corporate Power Structures — What IT Leaders Need to Know Author: [Your Name], Senior IT Correspondent, WindowsForum.com Date: January 27, 2026 Deck: As companies embed machine learning and automation deeper into decision-making, "algorithms as authority" is no longer a...

Washington state’s lawmakers have moved from study and warning to concrete statutory proposals that would place new, enforceable guardrails around generative AI — targeting deepfakes, companion chatbots aimed at minors, discriminatory algorithmic decisions, and the state’s own procurement and...

Washington lawmakers are advancing a set of targeted, high‑visibility proposals this legislative session that aim to constrain the most visible harms from generative AI—especially around companion chatbots, child safety, transparency about what models were trained on, and rights for...

The Regional District of Okanagan‑Similkameen (RDOS) is preparing a formal artificial intelligence policy that would tightly limit staff and contractor use to a single, enterprise‑managed product — Microsoft Copilot — after a short summer pilot that staff say produced measurable productivity...

The calendar year 2025 will be read in hindsight as the year artificial intelligence stopped being an experiment and became an industrial force — reshaping markets, national policy, energy systems, corporate headcounts, and intimate human relationships in ways few expected and many are still...

The year 2025 was the moment artificial intelligence stopped being a mostly academic curiosity and became an industrial force that reshaped national policy, energy grids, markets and everyday work — and the reverberations will define the debates and decisions of 2026 and beyond. Background By...

The piece circulating with the headline "How generative AI is growing and the risks to Iowans" captures a real — and increasingly urgent — set of trends playing out across Iowa: rapid adoption of generative AI tools, rising incidents of deepfakes and AI-driven misinformation, legal and...

Politico’s coverage of a brewing cross‑party crisis — that Americans broadly dislike the current surge of commercial artificial intelligence even as the political class dithers — landed like a thrown glove at the feet of the Democratic Party, and the fallout matters because it exposes a...

OpenAI’s big moves and Meta’s platform play have pushed the AI market from a scramble for models into a complex web of turf wars, multi‑billion‑dollar partnerships, and regulatory flashpoints—an industry shift that’s visible in three compact themes: compute and infrastructure, distribution and...

Italy’s competition authority has ordered Meta to immediately suspend new WhatsApp Business terms that would effectively bar rival AI chatbots from using the platform, escalating a regulatory showdown that now includes both national and European antitrust authorities and could reshape how...

Meta’s move to exclude rival generative AI chatbots from WhatsApp has been paused in Italy as the country’s competition watchdog steps in, raising the stakes in a cross‑border clash between platform control and open AI competition. Background Since early 2025, WhatsApp has evolved from a pure...

A wrongful‑death lawsuit filed this month accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of enabling conversations with ChatGPT that allegedly reinforced paranoid delusions and contributed to a murder‑suicide in Connecticut, thrusting AI safety, product liability and market risk into an urgent, high‑stakes public...

Microsoft’s Copilot is everywhere, and that ubiquity is finally prompting a reckoning: users, regulators, and even Microsoft’s own employees are asking whether constant Copilot integration is useful product design or an overreaching, brand-driven experiment with serious costs and trade‑offs...

Mustafa Suleyman’s offhand description of Elon Musk as a “bulldozer” and his praise for Sam Altman as “courageous” crystallize a moment in the AI industry where personalities, infrastructure, and governance are colliding — and Microsoft’s AI chief is placing himself squarely at the center of...

WhatsApp’s latest update nudges the app toward a new identity: less a simple chat client and more a multimedia-first communications hub — starting with a reinvention of voicemail, tighter AI controls, and freshly expanded image-generation tools that together reshape how billions talk, trade, and...

Microsoft’s Copilot will stop responding inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, after WhatsApp’s owner revised its Business API terms to explicitly bar third‑party, general‑purpose large‑language‑model (LLM) chatbots from operating as primary services through the platform. Background WhatsApp’s...

When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stood on a Delhi stage and distilled a provocative metric — “tokens per rupee per watt” — he did more than coin a catchy phrase; he framed a data‑centre–centric lens for how nations might measure their readiness for the AI era. That formula ties three concrete...

Anthropic chief scientist Jared Kaplan has warned that humanity faces “the biggest decision yet”: whether to allow advanced AI systems to train their own successors — a step he says could arrive between 2027 and 2030 and usher in either a beneficial “intelligence explosion” or a loss of human...

A federal judge has barred Google from forcing device makers and partners to distribute or bundle its Gemini generative-AI products as a condition of licensing other Google apps, a remedies decision that extends the court’s earlier finding that Google illegally maintained a search monopoly and...