Data centres and consumer bills. The White House says major tech firms have agreed to a “Ratepayer Protection Pledge” intended to prevent AI data-centre energy costs being pushed onto consumers, alongside grid-related actions.

Reuters reports OECD officials warning that heavy borrowing by AI firms to expand data centres and compute could make corporate bond markets more “equity-like”.

According to the Financial Times, transatlantic tensions over digital regulation are sharpening, with EU enforcement expectations under the Digital Services Act becoming a focal point in US political pushback. 

Reuters reports the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Stephen Thaler’s appeal seeking copyright protection for a work generated entirely by an AI system, leaving lower-court rulings in place that require human authorship for U.S. copyright. It keeps “human authorship” as a gating requirement for registering and litigating AI-output copyright claims (and pushes commercial strategy toward human contribution and documentation).