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Kenya’s proposed protections for AI workers could become a defining test of whether the global artificial intelligence boom can continue to rely on human labour without leaving the people behind the models exposed to low pay, opaque contracts, relentless monitoring, and psychological harm. The...

On May 5, 2026, the US Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation, housed at NIST, expanded pre-release AI testing agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI, giving government evaluators access to frontier models before public launch. The announcement, reported by...