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The US Trade Representative’s reference to “digital trade alignment” in talks with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is raising concerns in Canada. Critics worry the agreement could limit Canada’s ability to independently regulate technology companies and AI.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports Policy Authoring, which converts natural-language policy documents into Dogwood policies. The update helps teams enforce agent controls, including new time-based constraints, with worked examples and best practices.
Aegis is a runtime governance system that treats agent outputs as action proposals, then evaluates and authorizes them through a trusted policy layer before tool execution. In a sandbox evaluation, it recorded zero governed mock-tool applications and zero governed risky side-effect completions, though the authors caution that this does not establish general agent safety.
The article reports that Anthropic and Amazon have reportedly purchased large volumes of physical books, scanned them, and destroyed the originals to reduce copyright risk in AI training. It argues that this strategy is tied to differences in US and Chinese copyright law, while also raising concerns about the irreversible loss of cultural artifacts.
Taiwan plans to give each resident roughly $314 in cash next year, funded by stronger economic activity linked to the AI server boom. The 2027 central government budget allocates $7.4 billion for the payout.
The World AI Cooperation Organisation (WAICO) has grown from 29 to 38 signatories within one month of its founding. The expansion comes as Washington reportedly prepares to urge 35 countries to choose between the two AI blocs.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order making the state more restrictive for AI data centre development. The order removes data centres from the permit fast-track programme, delays environmental review until local approval, and prohibits state agencies from signing non-disclosure agreements on projects.
Loudoun County has changed its zoning rules so new data centers can no longer be approved as routine office-park projects. Developers must now obtain approval from residents and local government, ending more than 25 years of relatively easy approvals.
An AI-assisted review of 291 Chinese city planning documents found that low-altitude economy appears in 257 cities’ plans for the next five years. Compared with the previous planning cycle, cities replaced nearly half of their listed industry tracks while increasingly adopting numeric portfolio labels.
Oxford researcher Carl Benedikt Frey argues that China’s biggest obstacle to large-scale AI deployment may be inadequate social protection for workers displaced by automation, not computing power or algorithms. The analysis compares China with historical British welfare systems and Denmark’s flexicurity model, while noting that the cited Chinese incidents do not prove a broad AI crackdown.