TOPICS / Policy

Technology & public accountability

Follow a public decision from its rules to its delivery, and ask who can challenge it.

A circuit-based office stamp is held above a paper file by a manual stop lever.

Your boss wants AI. Who gets the final say?

California’s newly signed workplace rules put a human between an automated recommendation and a decision to discipline or dismiss. Whether that person can genuinely challenge the machine is the harder question.

Policy / Cover story

Want a data centre? Bring your own power

Australia wants new data centres to add supply, pay their grid costs and provide flexibility. Turning that promise into an enforceable bargain is more complicated than arriving with a very large plug.

Policy / Explainer

Can banning the endless scroll make children safer?

California is moving from the content children encounter to the features that keep them using a platform. The test will be whether design changes improve safety without creating a new set of problems.