AI Policy

Google told schools on November 3, 2026, that a full ban on its AI tools comes with a price: students lose Google Search, too. Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search will be entirely off for K-12 student accounts until administrators explicitly turn them on. Google announced the change Tuesday alongside Guided Learning, now available worldwide in Classroom, with a Search pilot later this month. The catch, reported by The New York Times, is what happens when a district says no altogether. Chris Phillips, Google’s vice president and general manager for education, told the Times that “Search and AI are deeply integrated,” and that students at those schools “will not have access to search, and they’ll see a message from their school that indicates it’s not available.” ...

Anthropic has drawn a line through one of the most popular uses of its coding tool. Claude Code will no longer help users rebuild a specific existing video game, even if they rename it or describe it as an original project. Anthropic confirmed the change on October 30, 2026, and it is the company’s first direct answer to Claude Code game clones, which spread across the web in the weeks after the Opus 5.5 model’s release. ...

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered all federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek AI products from their information technology systems and barred future purchases, per a Federal Register notice published Monday. Full story in slides above — Sources: Wall Street Journal, Firstpost, Economic Times, October 19, 2026.

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told officials at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok that one of the company’s internal economic models projects AI could push US GDP to about $44 trillion by 2030, up from just over $30 trillion today. The extreme scenario assumes rapid AI improvement, near-total automation of knowledge work, and the creation of entirely new industries — with growth near 15% a year. Clark paired the forecast with a warning: policymakers have only a few years to set international rules, as AI is already causing job losses in fields like call centers and could enable dangerous misuse. ...

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that eleven tech companies have pledged $2.4 billion in AI tools and computing power to the Trump Genesis Mission, the White House program that puts federal scientific research on national AI infrastructure. The announcement, made at the White House’s “Science: A New Golden Age” summit, is the largest private-sector commitment the administration has lined up for the mission since launching it last November. Nvidia is picking up most of the tab. ...

President Donald Trump named National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, OPM Director Scott Kupor, and Pentagon technology official Emil Michael to lead a “Super Intelligence” force tasked with protecting American interests in artificial intelligence, per USA Today and Reuters. The task force will examine AI’s risks and opportunities and recommend what role the federal government should play, with a report due within 120 days, per the Wall Street Journal. ...

President Trump will jointly launch the new unified US government website America.gov next Tuesday alongside multiple tech and AI leaders, per Bloomberg. Full story in slides above — sources: Bloomberg via PANews, September 26, 2026.