# Policy [https://timesof.ai/category/policy](https://timesof.ai/category/policy) Regulation, export controls, government programs, and public-sector AI decisions. ## Coverage - [Reuters Finds $3.2 Billion of Chinese AI Projects Designed Around Nvidia Chips the US Restricts, a Bet That Now Rests on Washington](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/reuters-3-2b-chinese-ai-projects-built-on-restricted-nvidia-chips) — Reuters found 23B yuan of Chinese AI computing projects planned around restricted Nvidia H100, H200 and H800 chips. The total includes buildings and power. - [Six Chinese Open-Weight Models Carry a Blackwell Fingerprint, an Independent Weight Analysis Finds, but It Cannot Say Where the Chips Were](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/blackwell-fingerprints-deepseek-moonshot-minimax-ant-open-weights-unemployment-labs) — An Unemployment Labs analysis says DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Ant Group models were initialized on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. Location and legality unproven. - [Nonprofits Ask a California Court to Freeze Frontier AI, Using the Labs' Own Risk Warnings as Their Evidence](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/nonprofits-sue-to-freeze-frontier-ai-anthropic-google-meta-openai-xai) — Public Citizen and three other groups sued Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and xAI in San Francisco, seeking to freeze more capable AI under California law. - [Chinese AI Firms Rush to Lock In Overseas Nvidia Capacity Before Washington Closes the Cloud Loophole, Reuters Reports](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/chinese-ai-firms-rent-overseas-nvidia-capacity-remote-access-reuters) — Reuters: Chinese AI firms are trying to reserve overseas Nvidia compute, fearing allegations around former CEO Jensen Huang speed the Remote Access Security Act. Firms unnamed. - [Helsing Launches Clarity, Agent-Based Military Intelligence Software That Prepares Targets for Human Approval](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/helsing-clarity-agentic-military-intelligence-platform) — Helsing's Clarity uses hundreds of AI agents to fuse battlefield data and prepare targets for human approval. Reuters: a Palantir Maven rival; no customers named. - [A Blacklisted Chinese Defence University Bought Nvidia H200s Through a Local Supplier, Reuters Finds in Procurement Records](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/nvidia-h200-northwestern-polytechnical-entity-list-reuters) — Reuters: Entity-listed Northwestern Polytechnical bought two H200s via a local supplier and rented H200 servers, showing export-control gaps. Nvidia did not respond. - [U.S. and China Plan to Compare Pre-Release AI Testing, Bessent Says, While Committing to Nothing That Slows the Race](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/us-china-superintelligence-dialogue-model-testing-bessent) — Bessent says a U.S.-China 'superintelligence' dialogue will cover pre-release model testing and a serious-incident alert channel. No limits on development, no published procedures. - [New York Sets Up a State AI Testing Center and Opens RAISE Act Registration, but Has Not Said How It Will Get Access to Models](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/new-york-ai-safety-center-binghamton-raise-act-portal) — New York's new Binghamton center will independently test frontier AI, and large developers must register under the RAISE Act by Jan. 1, 2027. Model-access terms are not stated. - [England's University Regulator Says AI Is a 'Generational Risk' to Degrees and Will Require AI-Free Assessment Where Needed](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/uk-office-for-students-ai-free-assessment-generational-risk) — OfS says AI lets many unsupervised assessments be completed with little effort and will require valid, often AI-free, assessment, backed by sanctions. Qualitative study of 300+ people. - [Australia Will Make Frontier AI Labs Report Incidents and Submit to Independent Testing, Under a New Regulator With No Penalty Figures Yet](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/australia-mandatory-frontier-ai-standards-new-safety-regulator) — Australia will legislate incident reporting, independent model testing and published safety frameworks for frontier AI labs, under a new regulator. No penalties or dates yet. - [Trump Says He 'Doesn't Mind' AI Guardrails, as Long as They Don't Put the US in 'a Deep Second Position' to China](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/trump-60-minutes-ai-guardrails-not-deep-second-to-china) — Trump told 60 Minutes AI risks are manageable and he doesn't mind guardrails, but not ones leaving the US 'in a deep second position' to China. No proposal yet. - [Elvis Presley's Rights Holders and Eminem's Publisher Sue Suno, Testing Tennessee's AI Voice-Cloning Law](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/suno-sued-by-elvis-presley-rights-holders-and-eminem-publisher) — Presley rights holders and Eminem's publisher sued Suno; the Presley suit cites Tennessee's ELVIS Act on AI voice cloning. Suno says it blocks artist-name prompts. - [NYT: U.S. Cleared Nvidia H200s for Chinese Firms With Empty Offices and Ties to Blacklisted Companies](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/us-cleared-nvidia-h200-chinese-firms-empty-offices-nyt) — The NYT says Commerce cleared New Matrix, an empty-office Beijing firm tied to blacklisted Wise Road, to assemble Nvidia H200 servers. BIS says it vets all applications. - [Justice Department Forms a Super Intelligence Task Force to Prosecute Unlawful Uses of Frontier AI](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/doj-super-intelligence-task-force) — DOJ formed a Super Intelligence Task Force led by Stanley Woodward and Stephen Weiss to prosecute unlawful AI use and coordinate with Jay Clayton's SI Force. - [EU Court Adviser Says Chatbot Answers Can Infringe Press Publishers' Rights, While AI Training Is Generally Allowed](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/eu-court-adviser-chatbot-answers-can-infringe-press-publishers-gemini) — CJEU Advocate General Szpunar says Gemini-style answers can infringe press publishers' rights in some cases; training generally falls under the TDM exception. - [OpenAI Hires Former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to Sell AI to the US and Its Allies' Security Agencies](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/openai-hires-dan-driscoll-national-security-modernization) — Former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll joins OpenAI as Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization, focused on AI for US allies and cyber defence. - [The New York Times Sues Brave, Saying Its Search API Sells Scraped Journalism to AI Companies](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/nyt-sues-brave-search-api-index-ai-companies-paywall-blocker) — The Times alleges Brave scraped its articles into a 30B-page index sold to AI firms via the Brave Search API, and bypassed paywalls. Allegations only so far. - [Google Will Switch Off AI in K-12 Student Accounts Unless Schools Opt In, but Schools That Refuse AI Will Lose Google Search in Those Accounts Too](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/google-k12-ai-opt-in-schools-that-block-ai-lose-search) — Google will make AI opt-in for K-12 student accounts, but schools that block AI will also lose Google Search in those accounts, its education chief says. Changes start early 2027. - [OpenAI Publishes Its Data Centre Community Compact and Asks Lawmakers to Make It Law; the AI 'Speed Limits' Proposal Is Still to Come](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/openai-post-midterm-policy-push-speed-limits-ai-compute-campuses) — OpenAI's new compact pledges to pay full power costs and end NDAs with officials at its own campuses. Its AI speed limits proposal is still unpublished. - [South Korea's President Asks Parliament for 21.3 Trillion Won for AI and Chips in 2027, Nearly Double This Year](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/korea-2027-budget-21-3-trillion-won-ai-chips-physical-ai) — President Lee asked Parliament for 21.3 trillion won ($16B) for AI, chips, physical AI and data centres in 2027, nearly double 2026, plus about 4.7T for frontier AI. - [Judge Lets the NAACP's Clean Air Act Suit Over xAI's Mississippi Gas Turbines Proceed](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/xai-naacp-clean-air-act-suit-proceeds-turbines-not-mobile) — A Mississippi federal judge denied xAI's motion to dismiss the NAACP's Clean Air Act suit over unpermitted gas turbines. A preliminary injunction ruling is still pending. - [England Moves Its Gemini-Built Planning Assistant to 15 Councils on the Strength of a 58% Pilot Time Saving](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/uk-planassist-gemini-planning-tool-15-councils) — PlanAssist, built with Gemini by Google DeepMind, goes to 15 English councils after pilots cut assessment time 58%, per the government. Officers keep the decision. - [TRAI's Draft AI Rules Would Make Indian Telcos Answerable for Vendors' AI and Require Them to Report Serious AI Incidents](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/trai-draft-responsible-ai-guidelines-telecom-nov-27) — TRAI's draft guidelines would require board-approved AI policies, AI incident reporting and vendor accountability from Indian telcos. Comments close Nov. 27. - [OpenAI and Google Back One robots.txt Line for Opting Out of AI Training, but It Is a Draft Signal, Not a Crawler Block](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/openai-google-microsoft-anthropic-shared-robots-txt-ai-training-opt-out-aipref) — OpenAI and Google will honor a shared robots.txt token for opting out of AI training; The Verge says Microsoft and Anthropic too. It is a draft, not a crawl block.