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• [New] The EU Cyber Resilience Act (EU CRA) mandates implementing a Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) policy to enhance cybersecurity within the European Union, particularly for products such as IoT devices. cavliwireless.com
• [New] The Cabinet Office will lead AI adoption across the civil service. UKAuthority
• [New] Responsibility for AI strategy, public sector AI adoption and the AI Security Institute moves to the Cabinet Office, which will also lead AI adoption across the civil service. UKAuthority
• [New] Current Government plans are insufficient to achieve the 2030 biogenic methane target. Climate Change Commission
• [New] The EU AI Act, in force since 2024, is the first comprehensive AI regulation of its kind and is on a staggered compliance timeline running through 2027. Everything-PR News
• [New] Government and Defence is projected to expand at a 28.67% CAGR through 2031, making it the fastest-growing end-user group. Mordor Intelligence
• [New] The UK government could raise £1.6 billion annually in direct tax revenue. NESTA
• [New] The Australian Government has announced that it will discontinue certification under its voluntary Climate Active programme, citing the evolution of Australia's climate policy framework and the growing role of mandatory corporate climate regulations. Ccarbon.info
• [New] Open-source software partners and American critical infrastructure companies built a coordinated system to receive and patch cyber vulnerabilities at a speed and scale never seen before using the existing authorities and resources of the federal government. PilieroMazza PLLC
• [New] The policy shift could cut demand for EVs in half. / USA Gizmodo
• [New] The National Electric Vehicles Policy targets to increase the share of EVs to 50% of total vehicles on the UAE roads by 2050. Evolve Show
• [New] The Russian government continues exerting legal pressure on Russian migrants likely to coerce migrants into military service under threat of deportation. Critical Threats
• [New] DHS has sought to balance program integrity, national security, and compliance with the need to minimize disruptions to students and the U.S. workforce. Federal Register
• [New] The US decision not to renew the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement will create a headwind to foreign investment in Mexico and extend uncertainty over trade policy. KPMG
• [New] A potential U.S. ban on Chinese AI models like Kimi could hand OpenAI and Anthropic a government-protected duopoly, reshaping the global AI competitive landscape. The Brief - Superculture
• [New] A fundamental fault line has emerged that threatens to reshape the traditional relationship between Christian Churches and Christian Democratic parties: the contentious issue of migration and asylum policy. Nature
• [New] The Kenyan government is advancing plans to establish a national carbon exchange by 2027 to facilitate trading of verified carbon credits and attract international climate finance to ecosystem and renewable energy projects. LinkedIn
• [New] The US Government, through FEMA, offers a National Risk Index Score that ranks the relative likelihood and severity of 14 specific types of acute climate-related risk events by US county and Census Tract. Ardmore Banking Advisors, Inc
• [New] The combination of technology generation transition demand with regulatory digital switchover mandates across emerging markets creates a highly predictable, policy-driven equipment upgrade demand wave that equipment manufacturers can plan capacity and R&D investments around through 2033. Persistence Market Research

Last updated: 29 July 2026