Superintelligence news
South Africa Pulled Its National AI Policy Because the Citations Were Not Real
A Cabinet approved draft, gazetted for public comment, cited sources that do not exist. The minister withdrew it and ordered consequence management.
China Wrote Rules for AI That Pretends to Be a Person
Mandatory disclosure, forced human takeover on self harm signals, a minors mode, and a ban on simulating a family member to an elderly user.
Japan Passed an AI Law With No Fines in It, on Purpose
Act No. 53 of 2025 bans nothing, licenses nothing and penalises nobody. The strategy is to be the most AI friendly country and to fund it.
Germany Wants a Gigafactory and Got a Regulator First
Brussels opened a call for up to seven AI gigafactories with 30 billion euros behind it. Berlin published the law that decides who polices the output.
Washington Is Accelerating Data Centres. Twenty Seven States Are Pricing Them.
Federal permitting relief does not reach zoning, land use or utility regulation, and that is exactly where the states are legislating.
Four Frontier Labs Shipped in Four Days
Anthropic, Google, Meta and OpenAI each released a frontier model in the first week of September 2026, and two of them shipped restricted cyber variants alongside.