Reuters reports Meta unveiled plans for a batch of in‑house AI chips.
Reuters reports China has warned state-owned firms and government agencies against using “OpenClaw AI”, according to sources.
Reuters (citing the NYT) reports ChatGPT and other AI chatbots have been approved for official use in the US Senate.
Regulation
Reuters reports a federal judge rejected xAI’s bid to halt a California law requiring public disclosures about the data used to train generative AI.
Reuters reports the US Commerce Department is considering new AI chip export rules, including potential requirements tied to investments in US AI data centres.
Academia
SSRN: Governing Agentic AI: Designing Authority in Systems that … This matters for AI governance because it frames “authority allocation” (who may do what, when, and with which overrides) as the practical backbone for deploying agentic systems.
arXiv: Governing AI Forgetting: Auditing for Machine Unlearning … This matters for AI governance because it proposes an audit/economic framing for verifying “unlearning” compliance—useful where deletion/erasure duties meet technical uncertainty.
Stanford (draft PDF): The Law of Evaluation: Beyond Benchmarks for AI Governance. This matters for AI governance because it argues evaluation practice (and its limits) is becoming a de facto regulatory surface, not a purely technical choice.
Events
ValidMind: AI Governance Symposium (London), 16 March 2026. This matters for AI governance because it is explicitly positioned around practical governance of advanced/agentic systems and brings in regulated‑sector perspectives.
The Audience Agency: “Let’s Get Real: AI” (Conway Hall, London), 19 March 2026. This matters for AI governance because it highlights sector-specific governance and strategy questions for cultural organisations adopting AI.
Takeaway
Compute governance is hardening into hardware and export policy, while adoption governance is hardening into institutional approvals and state restrictions.
Sources: Reuters; SSRN; arXiv; Stanford (Law & Innovation draft); ValidMind; The Audience Agency