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Pat Grady and Alfred Lin appointed Sequoia Capital co-stewards November 2025 following Roelof Botha's departure. Botha remains advisor. Pat Grady backed OpenAI and Harvey. Botha stated at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 that "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" are among the most dangero...

UK MoD named 26 companies in January 2026 awarded four-year contracts under Asgard programme for advanced digital decision-supporting capabilities focusing on Decide element of target acquisition cycle. 2025 Strategic Defence Review targets tenfold increase in lethality. BAE Systems features across ...

EU AI Act enforcement powers begin August 2 2026 with investigations orders and fines up to €35 million or 7 percent worldwide turnover. ISO/IEC 42001 published December 2023 is the world's first AI management system standard held by Microsoft PwC Canada Cornerstone and hundreds of others. ISO 42001...

Infosys CEO Salil Parekh announced approximately USD 1 billion annualised AI services revenue at 45th AGM June 2026. 4,600 AI initiatives active across top 200 clients. USD 14.9 billion large deal wins FY26. TCS Infosys Wipro each deployed Microsoft 365 Copilot to 100,000+ employees - 300,000 seats ...

OECD published January 2026 that VC investments in AI firms globally reached $258.7 billion in 2025 -61 percent of USD 427.1 billion total VC investment - doubling AI's 30 percent share in 2022. PitchBook NVCA Venture Monitor Q1 2026 found AI companies accounted for 88.8 percent of US venture deal v...

PwC Canada launched North America's first ISO 42001 certification services for AI Trust on February 10 2026. Darren Henderson PwC Global Trust and Transparency Leader stated trust cannot be an afterthought and embedding trust enables risk management. PwC invested USD 1 billion in Next Generation Aud...

Sarvam AI open-sourced Sarvam 30B and Sarvam 105B foundation models trained on IndiaAI Mission compute in February 2026 under Apache 2.0 licence. Sarvam 105B wins approximately 90 percent of Indian-language benchmark comparisons against GPT-4. ArXiv research paper Are LLMs Court-Ready evaluated fron...

Trump administration requested OpenAI delay GPT-5.6 release - OpenAI complied. Federal order forced Anthropic to temporarily disable global access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models over national security concerns - nations deploying Anthropic in government contexts had capabilities disrupted without co...

AWS CEO Matt Garman announced up to $50 billion investment in US government AI infrastructure starting 2026 adding 1.3 gigawatts across AWS Top Secret AWS Secret and AWS GovCloud regions. OpenAI expanded government footprint through AWS deal March 2026 making models available through Amazon Bedrock ...

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled February 16 2023 that Palantir automated data analysis in Hesse and Hamburg was unconstitutional - violating right to informational self-determination Article 2(1) Article 1(1) Basic Law. Court required sufficient thresholds purpose limitation restricted ...

NATO released revised Artificial Intelligence Strategy July 10 2024 with six Principles of Responsible Use including Governability requiring human operators to always interact with override or deactivate AI systems. Mark Rutte NATO Secretary General since October 2024. Data and AI Review Board co-ch...

Quad Foreign Ministers met in New Delhi May 26 2026 - Secretary Marco Rubio US External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar India Foreign Minister Penny Wong Australia Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi Japan. Joint statement committed to deepening cooperation on innovation and emerging technologies. Next Qu...

Israel has no AI-specific legislation - enforcement relies on non-AI legislation under torts contracts administrative law and privacy protection. MIST is policy lead with non-binding AI Policy principles. Project Nimbus requires Israel Aerospace Industries and Rafael Defence Industries to use Amazon...

Saudi Vision 2030 Annual Report 2025 published April 2026 confirmed 93 percent of indicators achieved or on track entering Phase 3 full delivery 2026-2030. Adaa National Center for Performance Measurement tracks 350-plus KPIs across every public agency reporting to Prime Minister. SDAIA confirms 66 ...

McKinsey published State of AI Trust in 2026: Shifting to the Agentic Era in April 2026 with 500 organisations surveyed. Partner Rich Isenberg stated agency is a transfer of decision rights and accountability when the system acts is the central governance question. Overall RAI maturity score 2.3 out...

Five Eyes - CISA NSA NCSC-UK Canadian Centre for Cyber Security ASD ACSC NCSC-NZ - published joint agentic AI security guidance May 1 2026 noting attack surface from agentic AI deployments had become nationally consequential. ASD published Five Eyes cyber security agencies statement June 22 2026 war...

Gulf sovereign wealth funds deployed USD 66 billion in AI and digitalisation in 2025 representing 43 percent of all state-owned investor capital globally. Saudi PIF deployed USD 36.2 billion. Abu Dhabi Mubadala USD 12.9 billion. Total Gulf committed capital to US technology reached USD 2.5 trillion ...

Project mBridge multi-CBDC platform developed by PBOC HKMA Bank of Thailand CBUAE and Saudi Central Bank has settled over $55.49 billion - 2,500-fold increase from 2022 pilots. China's e-CNY accounts for 95.3 percent of mBridge settlement volume. PBOC implemented new January 1 2026 governance framew...

ASEAN released Expanded Guide on AI Governance and Ethics January 2025 and adopted Responsible AI Roadmap 2025-2030 March 2025. Vietnam first binding AI law effective March 2026. Digital Economy Framework Agreement DEFA expected end 2026 to create legally binding AI governance interoperability. Phil...

India's AI Impact Summit February 2026 featured Prime Minister Modi Minister Vaishnaw Minister Puri Neysa and Nvidia all describing India's AI infrastructure as sovereign. The Ken published April 27 2026 that there is no legal standard or technical requirement to be classified as sovereign - hypersc...

Canada appointed Evan Solomon as first Minister for AI and Digital Innovation in May 2025. AIDA did not proceed when Parliament was prorogued January 2025. Federal AI Register released November 2025 containing 409 automated decision systems across 42 departments. Academic analysis published April 20...

At the G20 Johannesburg Summit November 22-23 2025 India drove the AI governance agenda forging the Johannesburg Consensus and ACITI technology partnership in the US's absence. PM Modi committed to human-centric AI governance with human oversight at its core. India hosted the AI Impact Summit Februa...

Lloyd's syndicates began underwriting Armilla Insurance standalone AI liability coverage May 2025 with coverage limits expanding to $25 million by January 2026. Vanguard AI coordinated structure launched February 2026. Verisk introduced AI exclusion endorsements covering 82 percent of US commercial ...

Project mBridge multi-CBDC platform developed by PBOC HKMA Bank of Thailand CBUAE and Saudi Central Bank has settled over $55.49 billion - 2,500-fold increase from 2022 pilots. China's e-CNY accounts for 95.3 percent of mBridge settlement volume. PBOC implemented new January 1 2026 governance framew...

The UAE Federal Authority for Artificial Intelligence and Data was established June 14 2026 consolidating the AI Office TDRA digital government sector and Emirates Data Office under Omar Sultan Al Olama reporting directly to Cabinet. From January 2026 the UAE national AI system serves as advisory me...