The UK, a global hub for both AI and the arts, struggles to balance tech innovation and protecting a creative sector increasingly threatened by AI trained on copyrighted works.

This month, the Social Web Foundation is joining the UN’s 20th annual conference on the internet.

AI is reshaping how courts make decisions, but without transparency and accountability, these tools risk amplifying bias, eroding civil rights, and undermining public trust in the justice system. This is a summary of Mallory Knodel’s keynote at the Michigan Judges Conference.

The images we use to depict AI, from robots, to blue brains and cascading code, are more than just clichés. They shape public understanding, feed myths and undermine meaningful engagement. Better Images of AI is working to change that.

A few weeks ago in the IX community, we were talking about the tech workforce, particularly in light of recent mass layoffs and protests over Big Tech’s role in supporting Israel’s occupation of Gaza. There was a time when employees at the world’s most powerful tech companies

New research from postdoctoral researcher Clément Perarnaud and professor Francesca Musiani on the QUIC protocol reveals how tech giants like Google are reshaping internet infrastructure through standard-setting, raising fresh questions about power, governance, and digital sovereignty.

This week, Burcu Kilic, tech policy expert and senior fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation, describes how U.S. tech companies are framing international regulatory efforts as threats to American innovation, and using tariffs as a strategic tool to advance their policy priorities in global trade negotiations. But

This week, in our main story, IX's Ramma Shahid Cheema, feminist media and advocacy expert, discusses how civil society organizations are increasingly turning to AI tools to boost their efficiency in policy, advocacy, and communications, while also confronting the ethical challenges that come with their use. But first.