Reuters reports a wave of children’s online safety laws is accelerating deployment of age‑checking technology. For AI governance, this is an enforcement-adjacent development: “age assurance” tooling is becoming infrastructure that will shape access controls, content moderation, and compliance duties across digital services.

Data centres and consumer bills. The White House says major tech firms have agreed to a “Ratepayer Protection Pledge” intended to prevent AI data-centre energy costs being pushed onto consumers, alongside grid-related actions.

Reuters reports OECD officials warning that heavy borrowing by AI firms to expand data centres and compute could make corporate bond markets more “equity-like”.

According to the Financial Times, transatlantic tensions over digital regulation are sharpening, with EU enforcement expectations under the Digital Services Act becoming a focal point in US political pushback. 

Reuters reports the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Stephen Thaler’s appeal seeking copyright protection for a work generated entirely by an AI system, leaving lower-court rulings in place that require human authorship for U.S. copyright. It keeps “human authorship” as a gating requirement for registering and litigating AI-output copyright claims (and pushes commercial strategy toward human contribution and documentation).