New Delhi hosted the largest AI governance summit in history from February 16-21, 2026, drawing delegates from over 100 countries and more than 20 heads of state. The summit marks the first time a Global South nation has hosted a major multilateral AI governance event. The gathering signals a broadening of the global AI policy conversation beyond the United States and European Union.
The EU AI Act entered full enforcement on March 1, 2026, requiring all AI systems deployed in the EU to comply with transparency, safety, and risk classification mandates. High-risk systems face the strictest requirements including mandatory human oversight and detailed logging. Non-compliance carries penalties of up to €35 million or 7% of global annual turnover.
Meta is now allowing rival AI companies to provide their chatbots on WhatsApp to Brazilian users for a fee, a day after the company confirmed a similar decision for users in Europe.
A VPN company has put together AI chatbot privacy ratings based on the data collection practices of the ten most popular AI chatbots in the App Store. The iPhone chatbots are ranked worst to best, and there are no prizes for guessing which of the competing apps collects the most personal data …
AI agents hold the promise of automatically moving data between systems and triggering decisions, but in some cases, they can act without a clear record of what, when, and why they undertook their tasks. That has the potential to create a governance problem, for which IT leaders are ultimately respo