Afternoon edition — Friday 6 November 2026

An amendment to the UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, introduced at the bill's third reading in the House of Lords this week, would let ministers regulate how certain organisations deploy AI agents and report incidents when they lose control of them, The Register reported. Ministers have outlined safeguards, notification of affected organisations, preservation of evidence and government-led incident reviews.

The clause does not impose duties by itself: any rules would need consultation and approval by Parliament through secondary legislation. A Pinsent Masons partner told The Register this could include powers to appoint inspectors, enter premises and seize documents. Operators of essential services, managed service providers and cloud providers running agents for customers could be covered; foundation model developers would not automatically be.

Democrats plan to introduce a wave of AI legislation when they take control of the US Congress in January, Reuters reported, citing lawmakers, congressional aides and advocates. The bills would shield consumers from electricity costs tied to data centres, require independent testing of advanced AI systems and clarify when AI companies can be held liable for harm caused by their products.

Senator Chuck Schumer, expected to become majority leader, said on Thursday that protecting consumers from higher energy costs linked to data centres would be among his priorities next year. Representative Lori Trahan plans a bill requiring independent experts to evaluate leading AI models against safety standards, her deputy chief of staff told Reuters. Democrats also plan to use committee control to compel testimony from industry leaders.

Any bill faces steep odds while President Trump, who has repeatedly dismissed calls for mandatory AI rules, can veto it; an override needs two-thirds of both chambers. On Friday Trump said he would work with states that "want to become RICH" by embracing AI, without giving details, Reuters reported.

Protesters broke into the construction site of a Microsoft AI data centre in Amsterdam's Sloterdijk district on Friday, at the start of two days of 'Stop Dirty Data Centres' actions in 16 countries, Reuters reported. Reuters put the number who got onto the site at about 100; the organiser Geef Tegengas told local broadcaster AT5 about 500, NL Times reported. Some climbed a crane and hung banners against AI.

Riot police intervened and arrested several protesters, NL Times reported. The coalition wants a moratorium on large data centres in Europe until governments set clearer rules; other actions are planned in Dublin, outside the Polish parliament in Warsaw and at a Microsoft site in Denmark. Microsoft said it respected the right to protest peacefully but did not condone unlawful action.

The site, three towers built by Pure Data Centres with Microsoft as the sole tenant, is going ahead despite Amsterdam's ban on new data centres because its plans date from 2016, before the ban, The Verge reported.

Cloud providers in Southeast Asia that want to become official Nvidia Cloud Partners must now enrol in Nvidia's fleet tracking software, Bloomberg reported, according to Tom's Hardware. The software, introduced last December as a data-centre management tool, gathers information on Nvidia hardware in participating companies' infrastructure, including the locations of individual accelerators.

The requirement gives Nvidia another way to see where its chips run, as US officials grow frustrated with restricted processors reaching China through smuggling networks in the region. Participation stays voluntary outside the partner programme, and Nvidia has not said whether existing partners must enrol or whether the rule will extend beyond Southeast Asia. Nvidia was not immediately available for comment.