Vietnam Sets AI Law in Motion, Airtel and Google Fight AI Spam, Nvidia Powers 6G with AI Networks, Australia Threatens AI Blockade, and more...

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Vietnam moves to regulate AI with Southeast Asia's first comprehensive law, effective March

1st, 2026, focusing on generative AI risks and human oversight.

The government frames AI and the data economy as pillars of a smarter, more sustainable development

model and targets double-digit growth over the next five years.

The law covers developers and providers or deployers of AI, whether Vietnamese entities or foreign

operators, aiming to align with international standards while preserving digital sovereignty.

Separate updates include an investment law expanding special procedures, allowing timeline

adjustments and broader project transfers, and removing outbound investment policy approvals.

The law on planning clarifies linkages among planning categories, reduces overlaps, and

promotes decentralization and streamlined procedures.

Final impact depends on practical enforcement and the clarity of forthcoming regulations

and guidance.

Global reactions caution that heavy regulation could dampen innovation, as the United States,

China, Taiwan, and Japan pursue different regulatory approaches.

The law on protection of state secrets defines secrets as important, undisclosed information

whose exposure could harm national interests across five chapters and 28 articles.

The law on oversight activities of the National Assembly and People's Councils creates new

oversight authorities and processes across five chapters and 45 articles, with several

breakthrough provisions.

Analysts say the law's real effect will hinge on enforcement, sector-specific rules, and

the timing of guidance, viewing it as a starting point rather than a final word.

Some observers note business uncertainty until further guidance is issued, even as the

nation signals a digital economy and AI as pillars of sustainable development.

Industry voices describe the law as a declarative starting point that places responsibility and

risk management at its core, while noting remaining uncertainty pending guidance.

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NVIDIA is teaming with NOKIA, S-O-F-T-B-A-N-K, and T-M-O-B-I-L-E-U-S to push a 6G vision

built around AIE, E-N-A-B-L-E-D computing and software.

The initiative centers on open software defined R-A-N, edge-in-core platforms, interoperability,

supply chain resilience, and embedding AIE across networks to enable autonomous systems

and secure global connectivity.

The goal is a 6G infrastructure where AIE directs radio traffic efficiently and safely, addressing

a surge in connected devices and complex needs beyond 5G.

A broader market report covers size, regional consumption, production, trade flows, price

benchmarks, and competitive context with country coverage and forecasting through 2035.

Economic roles, timelines, funding, or pilots are not provided in the excerpt, leaving

exact scope and milestones unclear.

The press release notes, risks, and the forward-looking nature of statements, warning outcomes depend

on multiple factors.

Quick navigation anchors in the article highlight key findings and forecast sections, signaling

strategic relevance for entrants, investors, and industry players.

Key drivers include demand from households and industry, price dynamics from freight and

exchange rates, supply influenced by input availability and regional efficiency, and

varying country competition and entry barriers.

Industry dynamics suggest wireless standards shift about every decade.

Prestandard alliances can influence direction, but may cause delays or incompatibilities.

New telecom generations emerge roughly every decade, with alliances sometimes slowing

rollouts or creating misalignments.

The move opens the telecom sector to more entrants, potentially enabling startups to scale rapidly

into telecom unicorns.

The push could lower barriers for startups to become unicorns per investor comments, promoting

a more open, software-centric telecom ecosystem.

Australia's online safety regulator is moving to require search engines and app stores to

block AI services that do not verify user ages or restrict access to inappropriate content

part of a broad AI age crackdown.

OpenAI, character.ai, and other high-profile providers are facing lawsuits over interactions

with young users, and OpenAI reportedly deactivated a teen mass-shooting suspects

chatGPT account in Canada without notifying authorities.

Starting in March, Australian users will be restricted from under-18 access to pornography,

extreme violence, self-harm, and eating disorder content across chatGPT and companion chat

bots, with penalties up to $1.49.5 million for non-compliance.

Industry voices say the ultimate responsibility lies with services operating in Australia to

understand and meet legal obligations, while Apple and Google have offered limited or no

detailed enforcement plans.

The core point is the regulatory threat and deadline, with sponsor notes and related tech

items surrounding the story.

Azure platform players have not publicly outlined their compliance plans, signaling

a broader push for global AI safety regulation.

Reuters notes gaps in age verification visibility across many services, based on platform

responses, terms of service and policy statements.

The review also looked at explicit age verification prompts, moderation policies, and publicly

stated compliance statements.

Let's say regulators notify services of rules, but legal responsibility ultimately rests

with providers to define safe boundaries for AI interactions with children.

Some providers, including Candy AI, Pi, Kindroid, and Nomi, indicated plans to comply, while

Hammer AI chose to block its Australian service to meet the rules.

Analysts like Jennifer Ducksbury and Lisa Given highlight the novelty and enforcement challenges

of safety controls across diverse AI platforms.

Ahead of the deadline, Reuters found only a minority of the 50 most popular text-based

AI products had announced age assurance measures, with many delaying or blocking access for

Australians.

Sabia is drawing a clear line between legitimate financial education and misleading investment

advice, with the regulator asserting its power to remove harmful content in cooperation

with social media platforms.

The authority is deploying an AI tool named Sudarshan to monitor violations across multi-lingual

audio and video content, and has already removed more than 120,000 misleading posts by unregistered

financial influencers.

Sabia says it will continue using AI to track violations in the digital space.

In comments provided to ANI on March 2026, Sabia Chairman Tuhan Kanta Pande discussed the

agency's approach and tools, with financial express referenced in the report.

Finance Minister Nirmala Satharaman signaled regulatory measures in the budget related

to derivatives trading by retail investors, including a higher securities transaction tax

to curb excessive speculation.

Pande stressed the ongoing deployment of AI to identify violations online, and said the

regulator's actions are calibrated, aiming for regulation without overreach.

He likened market intervention to a surgeon's knife, rather than a sledgehammer, and noted

reforms over the last year toward optimal regulation balancing market development with

investor protection.

The regulator characterizes regulation as a careful surgical process, describing the

past year as a year of reform toward optimal oversight.

Post-COVID, social media narratives influenced retail participation in derivatives and options

trading, contributing to losses with data backed warnings that 9 out of 10 option traders

lose money.

CB has issued data-driven measures and investor warnings, including cigarette warning like

notices via pop-ups stating that 9 out of 10 investors lose money when trading options.

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