From 16 to 21 February 2026, India hosted the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. The New Delhi Declaration on AI Impact was endorsed by 89 countries and the European Union, including all G7 members. It is organised around pillars the summit calls Chakras, among them developing human capital, broadening access to AI for social empowerment, ensuring trustworthiness and energy efficiency, applying AI to scientific discovery, democratising AI resources, and using AI to grow economies

The EU is giving itself more time to apply the heaviest obligations of the AI Act. On 7 May 2026 the European Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the Digital Omnibus on AI, and Parliament voted to adopt it on 16 June 2026; formal Council approval was still required, and both institutions aimed to complete adoption before 2 August 2026. Under the agreement, high-risk obligations for stand-alone systems listed in Annex III, such as those used

In the United States, AI governance is being built in real time. In December 2025, Executive Order 14365 aimed to halt state-by-state AI regulation and prepare the ground for federal preemption; it directed the Commerce Department to identify onerous state AI laws and refer them to a new AI Litigation Task Force, which the Department of Justice set up in January 2026. Meanwhile, state rules such as Colorado's obligations for deployers of high-risk systems, Utah's AI disclosur

On 6–7 July 2026, the first annual Global Dialogue on AI Governance convened at the Palexpo Convention Centre in Geneva, alongside the ITU AI for Good Global Summit. Established by UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/79/325, adopted by consensus in August 2025, the Dialogue brings together all 193 Member States with the private sector, civil society, academia and the technical community. It is not a negotiating forum: each session ends with a co-chairs' summary, and the aim

The Independent International Scientific Panel on AI is a separate UN body created to produce independent, evidence-based assessments of the opportunities, risks and impacts of artificial intelligence. It is co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio and Maria Ressa and has 40 members who serve in their individual capacity, from all regions. Its Preliminary Report was launched on 1 July 2026 and presented at the Geneva Dialogue. As the UN puts it, the Panel provides the science while the Di

On 11 June 2026 the Financial Stability Board published a consultation report setting out 12 sound practices for financial institutions adopting AI responsibly. Practices 1 to 4 cover organisation-wide AI governance, practices 5 to 10 the management and mitigation of AI risks across development and deployment, and practices 11 and 12 AI-related cyber, ICT and third-party risks. The FSB stresses that the practices are not an international standard and do not prescribe a partic

According to the International Energy Agency's report Key Questions on Energy and AI, reported in April 2026, electricity demand from data centres grew 17% in 2025, more than five times the 3% growth of overall global electricity demand, while technology companies spent over US$400 billion on AI infrastructure. The IEA projects that data-centre electricity demand will double by 2030, with AI-related demand tripling, and that AI infrastructure spending could rise by a further

In a research brief published on 17 April 2026, Workers' exposure to AI: What indicators tell us and what they don't, the International Labour Organization cautions that AI exposure measures should not be interpreted, on their own, as predictions of job losses or labour market outcomes. Results depend on method: earlier automation-based measures flagged lower-skilled, routine jobs as most at risk, whereas newer AI capability-based measures point to higher-skilled, cognitive o