// policy

Source: The Next Web

Italy's antitrust authority has extracted binding commitments from DeepSeek, Mistral, and Nova to disclose hallucinations with specificity—the first enforceable standard for what "adequate" disclosure means, rather than industry self-regulation or guidelines. AI companies operating in Europe now face concrete disclosure requirements or enforcement action. The precedent matters because other EU regulators are likely to adopt it, giving Italy de facto standard-setting power across the bloc before the EU's AI Act takes full effect.

Source: Transformer

Google formalized what its own researchers didn't know was coming: a Pentagon contract allowing classified military use of its AI models under deliberately vague terms ("any lawful governmental purpose"). OpenAI and xAI made similar moves earlier. Google's deal signals that even companies with formal AI ethics boards can override them when government contracts are sufficiently lucrative and framed as inevitable competitive necessity. AI safety reviews, researcher input, and public consultation are now decoupled from commercial and defense partnerships. Those processes have become performative rather than gating.