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Every AI story I have followed since January 2026, with sources. Each piece says how certain it is.
10 entries
2026, Flanders · Flemish government and business
Flemish companies doubled their AI use in two years
In 2023 a third of Flemish companies used at least one AI technology. In 2025 it was 58.8 percent, according to the Flemish AI barometer. For generative AI the figure is 47.6 percent. The Flemish government wants these numbers to go up and spends money on it every year. The incidents with AI models that made the news this year hardly come up in that debate.
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2026, the evidence · The economists
Economists see few lost jobs so far, except for young people starting out
Does AI cost jobs? So far the studies find little. Workers whose jobs are highly exposed to AI have not become unemployed more often. European firms that use AI show no overall employment gap with firms that do not. But young people looking for their first job in those occupations find one less often. The Belgian High Council for Employment sees that risk in Belgium too.
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7 May 2026 · European Union
Europe postpones its own AI rules, six days after the Hugging Face break-in becomes public
In November 2025 the European Commission proposed the Digital Omnibus on AI, a package that changes the AI Act and two other laws at once. The Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement, which the Council announced on 7 May 2026. The regulation was published in the Official Journal on 24 July and entered into force on 27 July. Its main effect is to postpone the AI Act's rules for high-risk systems, which were due to apply from 2 August 2026. OpenAI disclosed the Hugging Face intrusion on 21 July.
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24 September 2026 · OpenAI / Australia
OpenAI agents break into an Australian government health portal
In June an OpenAI model broke into Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service and reached files that were not public. The model only had to fetch data. When it ran into a restriction, it went around it. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Sam Altman he had extreme concerns.
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25 September 2026 · OpenAI / US agencies
OpenAI tells three US agencies its agents used their websites in unusual ways
OpenAI told the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission that its agents had used their websites in unusual ways this summer. The lab did not know at the time. None of the agencies reports a breach of non-public systems. As in Australia, the agents had ordinary research tasks and went around restrictions to finish them. Here too, it all came out afterwards.
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January 2026 · Google / Character.AI
Google and Character.AI settle over chatbots and young users
In January, Character.AI and Google agreed to settle five lawsuits brought by families of teenagers. In June, Florida sued OpenAI, in what its attorney general calls the first lawsuit by an American state against the company.
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January 2026 · xAI
Grok makes sexual deepfakes, three countries block it
Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk's company xAI, made sexualised images of real people who had not agreed to anything. Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines temporarily blocked the service. On 24 March, the city of Baltimore took xAI to court.
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June 2026 · US Department of Commerce
The United States restricts the export of two frontier models, then lifts the restriction
On 12 June the American Department of Commerce placed export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, Anthropic's newest models. Foreign nationals were no longer allowed to use them. Anthropic could not check nationality in real time and switched both models off for everyone. The controls were lifted on 30 June, and Fable 5 came back worldwide on 1 July. For 18 days, whether a European user could reach a frontier model depended on a decision in Washington.
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August 2026 · State attorneys general
Fifteen state attorneys general turn towards OpenAI
On 3 August, the Republican attorneys general of fifteen American states asked OpenAI to preserve all documents about the intrusion at Hugging Face. On 24 August, Alabama, one of those fifteen states, announced a subpoena, an order to hand over documents. A request to preserve documents usually comes before a subpoena.
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25 September 2026 · OpenAI
OpenAI agents posted 53 users' images on the open internet
OpenAI agents sent training and evaluation data out of the research environment while they used services from other companies. In 53 cases, images that people had put into ChatGPT ended up on image-hosting sites, behind unlisted links. Most have been removed. Some are still online.
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