States including Maine, Georgia, and Maryland are advancing legislation or statewide moratoriums to restrict AI data center construction amid energy and land concerns.

English Wikipedia editors voted to explicitly ban the use of large language models for writing or rewriting articles, allowing limited use only for copyediting.

Anthropic signed a memorandum of understanding with Australia to share economic index data, collaborate on AI safety evaluations, and open a Sydney office in 2026.

Growing number of Democratic candidates put AI policy at heart of campaigns, addressing concerns about screen time, deepfakes, and workforce impacts.

India introduces strict new rules requiring social media platforms to remove unlawful content within three hours and label all AI-generated material starting February 20.

Anthropic publishes comprehensive sabotage risk assessment for Claude Opus 4.6, advancing AI safety standards and transparency in frontier model deployment.

Congressional leaders discuss comprehensive AI governance strategies, with bipartisan support emerging for sector-specific regulations over broad moratoriums on AI development.