Reuters reports that Netflix is facing a boycott by German voice actors over concerns linked to AI training, underlining how rights, consent, and compensation remain live governance issues in creative supply chains.
In Reuters coverage, power-grid delays are reported as a constraint on Amazon Web Services data-centre expansion in Europe, a reminder that “AI scale” governance also depends on infrastructure readiness and permitting realities, not only model capability.
GOV.UK announces the UK and Japan are strengthening science and technology ties, including workstreams that touch AI in telecoms, signalling continued reliance on bilateral cooperation rather than a single global rulebook.
GOV.UK highlights a trial at Sellafield using quadruped robots with a contamination swabbing tool, illustrating how “AI in critical sites” governance quickly becomes a safety case, assurance, and operational controls problem (not just software policy).
The Guardian reports that Anthropic has launched a legal automation tool and that markets reacted sharply across European information and software firms, sharpening the governance focus on professional accountability, provenance, and verification in legal workflows.
Regulation
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has published the International AI Safety Report 2026 materials (including summaries for policymakers), giving regulators and deployers a shared reference point on general-purpose AI risks and evaluation gaps.
Academia
arXiv posted “Explaining Behavioral Shifts in Large Language Models…”, which is directly governance-relevant because it targets why models drift or misbehave over time, not only whether they do - useful for post-deployment monitoring arguments.
arXiv also posted “Light Alignment Improves LLM Safety…”, relevant for policy discussions about whether lightweight alignment approaches can meaningfully reduce harmful outputs without heavy retraining cycles.
Events
World AI Cannes Festival (12–13 February 2026, Cannes): a business-and-society focused conference and expo with tracks spanning enterprise deployment, regulation, and sector applications (including health).
Agentic & Generative AI for Insurance Europe (12 February 2026, London): an industry event centred on operationalising agentic and generative AI in insurance, with emphasis on ROI, adoption hurdles, and execution risks.
ProductCon London (24 February 2026, London): a product-leadership conference framed around AI-driven product strategy and enterprise-scale delivery.
Takeaway
A credible governance baseline is consolidating (via the International AI Safety Report), but day-to-day deployment is being shaped just as much by infrastructure bottlenecks and workforce resistance as by model capability, making assurance, monitoring, and rights-aware sourcing the practical differentiators.
Sources: Reuters, GOV.UK, The Guardian, International AI Safety Report, arXiv, World AI Cannes Festival, Newton Media, Product School