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Canada will introduce online examinations, digital logbooks, and secure credentials for skilled trades apprentices as part of a C$8 billion initiative aimed at recruiting, training, and hiring between 80,000 and 100,000 new Red Seal workers by 2030–31. The Team Canada Strong initiative combines recruitment, apprenticeship training, and employment support.

People in 34 of 37 countries surveyed by Pew Research Center are more likely to expect artificial intelligence to reduce the number of jobs than increase them over the next 20 years, according to new international research on public attitudes towards AI. Concerns are particularly widespread in wealthier economies, according to Pew findings. Around seven in ten adults or more in Australia, the Republic of Korea, and the USA expect AI to result in fewer jobs.

21 Sep 2026 Outlining how applications of digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain, can improve regulatory efficiency, UN/CEFACT published a white paper on facilitating export control and compliance procedures.

Former U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division chief Jonathan Kanter discussed the governance challenges posed by frontier artificial‑intelligence models in a Decoder podcast released on 19 September 2026. The discussion centered around how the big AI firms – including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and others – are asking for an antitrust exemption to coordinate a slowdown.

The Advanced AI Society (AAS), the alliance for verifiable AI, has released the Proof‑of‑Control working draft and opened it for public comment until 30 October 2026. The release coincides with bipartisan congressional proposals in the United States that call for continuous, verifiable control of autonomous AI agents.

Karnataka has approved the Sustainable Data Centre Policy 2026–2031, a five-year framework aimed at expanding the state’s digital infrastructure. The policy targets 1 GW of cumulative data centre IT load and aims for Karnataka to account for 10–12% of India’s AI-ready data centre capacity by 2031. The state has set aside about ₹13 billion for implementation.

The UAE Cyber Security Council and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research have launched the CYBRANI Practical Training Initiative to strengthen the country’s cybersecurity talent pipeline by linking university education with practical industry experience. The initiative was announced during GISEC Global 2026.

In a social media post on 19 September, U.S. President Donal Trump announced that this administration would form an ‘AI force’ and appoint an AI czar to help monitor the technology. The announcement builds on intense discussions around global AI fears that took place the last few weeks as a result of the hack of Hugging Face by rogue OpenAI agents and the more recent AI researcher resignations due to concerns of out-of-control AI.

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has started to develop a multi-pronged approach to strengthen protections for minors using artificial intelligence and social media, including consideration of legislative, administrative and educational measures. The initiative follows the Chief Executive’s 2026 Policy Address from 16 September, which proposed establishing a dedicated task force on minors’ use of social media under a working group led by the Department of Justice.

20 Sep 2026 A lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California alleges that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google coordinated to slow AI development, which the plaintiffs claim breaches U.S. antitrust law. A class action filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California accuses Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google of coordinating a slowdown of artificial intelligence development, alleging violations of US antitrust law.