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Original reporting filed under AI Policy & Society, each with the primary documents it rests on.
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AI POLICY & SOCIETY // FINANCIAL RISK
A number everyone repeats turns out to be unverifiable. The AI exposure that can be measured has moved out of equity prices and into credit, leverage and circular commitments, and the IMF now names an AI-driven correction as the first of three near-term risks.
SOURCES PUBLISHED October 13, 2026 (IMF GFSR) and May 2026 (Federal Reserve FSR)
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AI POLICY & SOCIETY // STANDARDS
Both companies endorsed a shared robots.txt token for AI training preferences. The draft behind it is an individual submission that says the token does not direct crawling, and that private deals may override it.
SOURCE PUBLISHED October 30, 2026 (OpenAI post; Google Search Central post; IETF draft-kelley-aipref-training-preference-signal-00)
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AI POLICY & SOCIETY // COPYRIGHT LITIGATION
On the day amicus briefs were due, OpenAI compiled excerpts defending fair use and Wikimedia split training from retrieval. No ruling has been reported, and one excerpt carries no filer’s name.
SOURCE PUBLISHED October 30, 2026 (OpenAI page; Wikimedia Foundation announcement; CAIDP case tracker)
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AI POLICY & SOCIETY // MARKETS
Anthropic committed 5 percent of its shares to a public benefit fund and would not say who receives them. Its registration statement names four managers and leaves allocation decisions with the board.
SOURCE PUBLISHED October 18, 2026 (announcement); October 26, 2026 (SEC filing)
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AI POLICY & SOCIETY // MARKETS
Filed with the share count and price range blank, the prospectus shows a first operating profit, then a $59.6 billion charge against its own valuation.
SOURCE PUBLISHED October 26, 2026 (SEC)
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AI POLICY & SOCIETY // COURTS
Days from retirement, Geoffrey Vos says a 10 percent annual rise in county court claims is down to people consulting Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude. The Ministry of Justice's own quarterly bulletin, published in September, points at claims over parking on private land — and shows the category he wants automated getting smaller.
SOURCE PUBLISHED October 28, 2026, 02:00 (WIRED); September 3, 2026 (Ministry of Justice); October 15, 2025 (judiciary.uk)
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