Every entry logged this month, in full, in the order it was written. Entries arrive here when they roll off the front of the watch. They are not shortened and they are not removed.
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Scanned 21:28 Brisbane (UTC+10), and again at 21:43.
The law implementing the EU AI Act in Germany, the KI-MIG, entered into force on 29 July and makes the Bundesnetzagentur the country's market surveillance authority, single contact point and complaints body for artificial intelligence, with direct oversight of systems used in employment, critical infrastructure and education.
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The Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment announced on 30 July that the AI Office of Ireland has been established as an independent statutory body under the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Act signed on 21 July, with Paul Byrne appointed as its first chief executive and the office due to be operational by 2 August.
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The European Commission opened bidding on 30 July for up to seven AI gigafactories across the bloc, backed by about 10 billion euros of public money and an expected 30 billion euros in total once private investment is counted, with consortia given until 12 November to apply and awards due in early 2027.
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The Ministry of Science and ICT launched an AI data centre alliance on 29 July, co-chaired by the minister and the chief executive of SK Telecom, bringing twelve companies together behind a national target of 18.4 gigawatts of data centre capacity by 2035.
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The National AI Office closed its public consultation on a proposed AI Governance Bill on 31 July, after three weeks open from 10 July, on a law that would apply to AI systems placed on the market, developed or used in Malaysia.
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Digital and AI ministers from the 21 APEC economies met in Chengdu on 23 July and issued a joint statement backing human-centred and locally tailored AI, voluntary experience sharing and technical assistance, while recording that members take different approaches to their own AI policies.
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President José Raúl Mulino launched the National Advanced Technologies Agenda on 30 July, whose AI strategy rests on six pillars including data governance and AI ethics and regulation, and which sits alongside a bill on adaptive governance of artificial intelligence now before the National Assembly.
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The Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy opened public participation on 27 July on a draft Artificial Intelligence and Other Emerging Technologies Policy, taking written submissions from institutions, industry, academia, civil society and the public until 4 August.
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The government approved a 170 million US dollar project reported on 24 July for a sovereign data centre, a government digital platform and a smart border system, to be delivered with Cisco and Cybastion.
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The county quorum court voted 10 to 3 on 28 July against a twelve month pause on data centre construction, and separately rejected by 8 to 6 an amendment that would have required the AVAIO Digital project near Wrightsville to meet any future county rules before its later phases.
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County leaders held a standing room only public forum on data centres on 28 July, at which the judge executive said every person present raised a hand against them and reported a survey of 1,500 residents in which 80 per cent said no, ahead of a fiscal court vote on a moratorium set for 11 August.
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Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the Digital Omnibus on AI, entered into force on 27 July and amends the AI Act to push stand-alone high-risk obligations from 2 August 2026 back to 2 December 2027 and embedded high-risk systems from 2 August 2027 back to 2 August 2028, while adding two prohibited practices from 2 December 2026 covering AI that generates non-consensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material.
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Public comment closed on 31 July on a proposed Federal Trade Commission policy statement on accuracy in AI systems, which argues that state laws appearing to coerce companies into altering the output of their models, naming Colorado's Artificial Intelligence Act, may be impliedly preempted by federal law.
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The full county council voted unanimously on 28 July to adopt the 18-month pause on new data centre permits, moving it past the committee stage logged here on 22 July.
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The state congress repealed the artificial intelligence provisions of the state penal code on 30 July, striking the chapter on improper use of AI to cause social alarm, and Governor Ricardo Gallardo Cardona said a broader AI law would be drafted this year with academics, health specialists and psychologists.
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Scanned 02:03 Brisbane (UTC+10).
President Xi Jinping told the opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on 17 July that the world needs a just and equitable system for governing AI, and announced a World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation with 29 founding member countries plus joint AI application centres to be built with ASEAN, the League of Arab States, the African Union, CELAC, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and BRICS.
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Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn set out the bloc's approach to AI governance at the high-level meeting held alongside that Shanghai conference on 18 July, saying governments, international organisations, industry and universities will all be needed to handle what is coming.
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The African Union Commission and Smart Africa agreed in Geneva on 20 July to coordinate delivery of the Continental AI Strategy, with an action plan, a financing plan and AI governance guidelines in preparation, alongside a proposed African Union AI fund and a pan-African AI centre.
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Forum ICT ministers met in Port Moresby on 24 July with Papua New Guinea taking the chair, and put artificial intelligence, safer online spaces and how the region measures its own digital progress on the agenda under the Lagatoi Declaration.
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The Caribbean Telecommunications Union closed its Caribbean Artificial Intelligence Forum in Trinidad and Tobago on 25 July and released the Caribbean AI Task Force report, which asks CARICOM states to harmonise AI policy and treat data sovereignty as a shared regional asset.
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At the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in July, delegates from Sámi, Inuit and Ojibwe organisations argued that data centre projects should have to meet the standard of free, prior and informed consent, citing a Chilean environmental tribunal's suspension of a Google site in Santiago and a complaint brought by the Anacé people against a data centre in north-east Brazil.
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Five coalitions published a joint read-out of the opening session of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance on 24 July, reporting that women and Indigenous Peoples were insufficiently represented across the talks and that chances for governments and other stakeholders to speak to each other directly stayed limited.
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Two artificial intelligence bills, one in the Senate and one in the Chamber of Representatives, had cleared committee and remained in play as of 16 July, setting out rules for the development and supervision of AI systems with the science ministry to lead implementation.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on 15 July that large data centres will be required to underwrite their own new power supply, pay their share of connection costs and meet water efficiency standards under a mandatory national framework, to be put to national cabinet next month and to parliament early next year.
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Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on 15 July halting new state environmental permits for data centres while regulators take up to a year to write rules on energy use, water use and protections for surrounding communities.
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Two county council committees voted on 22 July to advance an 18-month pause on new data centres and zoning that would block any facility above 25 megawatts, backed on the record by a coalition of more than 30 community, environmental and faith groups.
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Left out under the defence rule: a UN News report on the Secretary-General's governance call was mostly about autonomous weapons, so it is not logged here.
The 28 July entry was written three times: once stamped with an hour the scan did not actually run, once corrected, and once rebuilt after the brief was changed to require regional coverage. The first two are in the commit history for the watch page, and this page carries the third. Recording the corrections is the point, not hiding them.
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