Evidence Queue | AI Wars of 2026
Research collected for AI Wars of 2026 but not yet used, and the reason each item is still waiting.
Evidence Queue
This page shows what this book has found but has not yet used, and why.
Most publications show you what they included. This one also shows what it collected and set aside, because the reasons are often more informative than the additions.
These entries distinguish statements supported by a source from questions that remain unresolved. A verified announcement can still leave adoption, reliability, or legal effects unestablished.
Each row names what the finding is about, where it came from and when, and the decision that applies to it. The heading above each table says what kind of decision that is.
Findings with defined limits
These sources support narrower claims than adoption, reliability, or legal effectiveness.
| Finding | Source | What the evidence does not establish |
|---|---|---|
| The EU AI Omnibus Regulation enforcement calendar through 2028 | cecu.es, date not recorded | Spanish tier-2/3 explainers; verify the regulation number, article numbers, and dates against the Official Journal text before publication. The OJ is the authoritative source. |
| Spain's first formal AI-agent-executed personal-data breach notification (AEPD, Sept 15, 2026) | derechoartificial.com, date not recorded | Tier-3 legal analysis; the underlying AEPD notice was not retrieved directly. The analysis states the case does not prove the model or provider was compromised, and the organization and the model are undisclosed. |
| ByteDance's Doubao-Seed-2.0 model family release (Feb 14, 2026) | finance.eastmoney.com, 2026-02-14 | Financial-press relay of a company announcement; all benchmark claims are company-reported and need verification before quoting. |
| Baidu's first AI-share disclosure: AI revenue was 43% of general-business revenue in Q4 2025 | finance.sina.cn, 2026-02-27 | Company-reported figures, and the denominator (general business revenue) is company-defined, so the 43% is not a share of total revenue. Corrects the standing 51% claim carried in earlier research follow-ups. |
| Spain's Council of Ministers approving the AI human-supervision draft law (May 26, 2026) | muypymes.com, 2026-06-08 | Tier-3 Spanish press citing La Moncloa; parliamentary progress not tracked here. |
| ByteDance merging the Doubao and Feishu product teams into one organization | technode.com, 2026-07-30 | Company announcement via press; operational effects unmeasured. |
| The European Commission president's proposed talks with frontier AI labs | currently.att.yahoo.com, 2026-09-16 | The Commission's speech text is needed alongside the reporting. An invitation does not establish an agreed slowdown or a binding rule. |
| Huawei Cloud's agent platform, infrastructure access dates, and reported customer and project counts | huawei.com, 2026-09-18 | Huawei reports different units for enterprises, projects, and customers. The announcement does not establish active use, retention, task success, workload reliability, migration effort, or realized ROI. Customer-authored or independent evidence is needed before the figures support a reader claim. |
| GPT-6 Sol and Luna list prices in Microsoft Foundry | azure.microsoft.com, 2026-09-22 | Microsoft's post reports availability and list prices, not what customers pay. It does not establish cost per task, adoption, or realized ROI; those claims need evidence beyond the vendor's price table. |
| GitHub and Yale's opt-in survey on developer views of software sustainability | github.blog, 2026-09-23 | The survey sampled U.S. GitHub users who opted into marketing emails, not developers generally. It reports attitudes and interests; it does not measure AI's environmental footprint or actual software energy use. |
| Spain's data-protection authority warns against automatically accepting AI résumé scores | aepd.es, 2026-09-23 | The agency says the screening tool was not yet operating and describes its warning as preventive, not a finding of infringement. The source does not establish deployed safeguards or their effectiveness. |
| CNNIC's 2026 genAI report: China's generative-AI user base past 700M by H1 2026 | 199it.com, 2026-09-29 | Tier-2/3 relay of the official release; the CNNIC original document was not retrieved directly and its methodology was not independently verified here. |
| Apple's planned tightening of macOS Full Disk Access consent, explicitly naming AI-agent risk as the driver | pymnts.com, 2026-10-04 | Tier-2 coverage of Apple's Oct 2 developer notice plus the Meta/Muse dispute; Meta denies the breach. No rollout date or entitlement-spec detail announced, and the entitlement-spec follow-up remains open. |
| Nscale's Nvidia-backed UK supercomputer slipping to the early 2030s on grid-connection delays | techgig.com, 2026-10-05 | Secondary outlet; the Ofgem figures are June 2026 (pre-window) and the in-window news is the delay framing. No Nscale statement in the piece, and the uncited claim about data centers planning their own gas-fired power needs a source before use. |
| Anthropic's in-country Claude inference for India via Amazon Bedrock, as reported by the vendor's India chief | storyboard18.com, 2026-10-05 | The page records the announcement as vendor-reported; early customers (Reliance, CRED) and enterprise figures (TCS rolling out to 50,000 associates) are Anthropic-reported and unaudited. No primary Anthropic or AWS announcement page found. Measured adoption needs evidence beyond the announcement. |
| Korea's MSIT proposing a 2027 private-sector information-protection budget up 44%, with a security AI model | m.ddaily.co.kr, 2026-10-06 | Tier-2 relay of an Oct 6 press explainer. The budget is a draft proposal, not enacted; the security-model allocation is a line item, not an awarded program. |
| Spain's AEPD issuing preventive warnings to two municipalities over AI surveillance camera procurements | derechoartificial.com, 2026-10-06 | Tier-3 legal analysis; the underlying AEPD resolutions were not retrieved directly. These are warnings under GDPR art. 58.2.a, not sanctions, and the cameras are not yet recording. |
| Google's peer-reviewed AMIE clinical evaluation in The Lancet | blog.google, 2026-10-08 | The findings rest on Google's summary; The Lancet paper itself was not read. A clinical-workflow data point outside the core agentic-contest scope. |
| Spain's advisory council presenting a Madrid manifesto for responsible AI, with the data-center decree expected before Nov 29 | diariodia.es, 2026-10-08 | Tier-3 Spanish press. The manifesto has no legal force; the data-center decree is still in review after a 600+-comment consultation, so nothing here is an enacted rule. |
| Fourteen USA Today Co. plaintiffs suing OpenAI entities for copyright infringement, seeking $250M+ | courtlistener.com, 2026-10-08 | The complaint is a primary court document, but its claims are plaintiff allegations, not findings; the court has ruled nothing. The DMCA 1202 claim and model-destruction remedy are requested relief, not granted relief. |
| USA Today Co's training-data copyright suit against the OpenAI Foundation (S.D.N.Y., filed Oct 8, 2026) | reuters.com, 2026-10-08 | Reuters reported the filing; the complaint's specifics ($250M+ demand, DMCA 1202 claim) were later recorded from the CourtListener docket. These are plaintiff allegations, not court findings, and the court has ruled nothing. |
Waiting to be read against the original page
Nobody here has yet read the page this finding cites and checked the claim against it.
| Finding | Source | What it needs before it can enter the book |
|---|---|---|
| South Korea extending espionage law to acts for any foreign country | reuters.com, date not recorded | Implementation guidance or an enforcement record involving AI or semiconductor technology. The law changes the legal scope, but the cited reports do not show an effect on technology leakage or competition. |
| Reuters on a chip startup adopting NVIDIA's interconnect technology | reuters.com, 2026-09-10 | A statement from D-Matrix or NVIDIA. A competitor choosing a rival's interconnect bears on the infrastructure contest and should not rest on reporting alone. |
| Reuters on US Senate scrutiny of how OpenAI handled an incident | reuters.com, 2026-09-10 | The Senate letters themselves. This is reporting on another outlet's reporting, which is two steps from the document, and the document is public. |
| Reuters on the EU cybersecurity agency obtaining access to frontier models for testing | reuters.com, 2026-09-10 | The European Commission statement the report describes. A regulator gaining test access is a governance development, and the governing body has published its own account. |
| Visa, Mastercard and Ant International on a shared way to identify AI agents in payments | reuters.com, 2026-09-10 | A statement from at least one of the three companies. An agreement between rivals on identity is materially interesting, which is exactly why it should rest on a primary source rather than on reporting. |
| Reuters on DeepSeek releasing a new model | reuters.com, 2026-09-10 | The primary release material from DeepSeek. This is secondary reporting, and the book records a release from the record of the release wherever one exists. |
| Thales' HexaForce announcement. | thalesgroup.com, 2026-09-17 | A readable primary source is needed to check the announcement, availability, and experimental claims. Any performance figure also needs its workload, test conditions, and measures of quality. |
| A French government working group on AI services used by children | solidarites.gouv.fr, 2026-09-18 | The cited government page could not be read using the available retrieval methods. Its original French text, policy status, and proposed measures must be checked before the finding enters the book. |
Waiting for a reading in the original language
The primary source is not in English and has not yet been read in the original.
| Finding | Source | What it needs before it can enter the book |
|---|---|---|
| South Korea's AI Basic Law in full effect since Jan 22, 2026, with compute-threshold safety inspections | factrace.kr, date not recorded | Tier-3 aggregator with producer-generated translation. Verify the Korean legal detail against the statute (cite law.go.kr directly) before publication. |
| China's foreign ministry responding to US allegations about copying AI models | mfa.gov.cn, 2026-09-09 | A reading of the Chinese original. The book holds this rebuttal but has not been able to retrieve the US advisory it answers, so recording one side alone would misrepresent the exchange. |
| A Chinese state plan directing AI models into named rural government services | cac.gov.cn, 2026-09-11 | A reading of the Chinese original with the relevant passage quoted and translated. A state directive naming specific workflows is precise, and precision is lost in summary. |
| A Chinese AI chip company listing on the Shanghai STAR Market | cnfin.com, 2026-09-11 | A reading of the Chinese original, and preferably the exchange filing behind it. Financial facts should come from the filing rather than from coverage of it. |
Outside the period being covered
The source predates the period it was found alongside, so it is held for a later pass.
| Finding | Source | Why nothing further is needed |
|---|---|---|
| An APEC forum statement on AI, published in July | cac.gov.cn, 2026-07-24 | Nothing beyond a later pass. The statement belongs to an earlier period than the one currently being covered. |
| China's national AI-for-cybersecurity test announcement | cac.gov.cn, 2026-09-15 | The page was published before the period covered. Its registration and recognition counts do not establish a detection rate or a performance ranking. |
Already recorded from another page
The same development is in the book from a different source.
| Finding | Source | Why nothing further is needed |
|---|---|---|
| The EU Cyber Resilience Act reporting duties taking effect | digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu, date not recorded | Nothing. The book already records this from the Commission's own reporting-obligations page. |
| US presidential remarks on slowing AI development | reuters.com, 2026-09-13 | Nothing. The book records the remarks from an independent outlet in its government-responses entry. |
| Germany's position on slowing AI development | reuters.com, 2026-09-14 | Nothing. The book records the position from Reuters syndication in its government-responses entry. |
| UK parliamentary recommendations on AI oversight | theguardian.com, 2026-09-14 | Nothing. The book already records the recommendation from the committee's own publication. |
| Google's Gemini 3.8 Live model introduction | publicnow.com, 2026-09-15 | Nothing. Google's original announcement is cited in the Google chapter, with its rollout conditions and evidence limits. |
Not a development
A reference surface rather than something that happened in the industry.
| Finding | Source | Why nothing further is needed |
|---|---|---|
| China's public filing registry for algorithm records | beian.cac.gov.cn, date not recorded | Nothing. The registry is a reference surface rather than a development, so there is nothing to record from it. |
Read and deliberately not recorded
The page was read and did not establish what this finding needed from it. Each row names what was missing, so the decision reverses if a better source appears.
| Finding | Source | Why it was declined |
|---|---|---|
| AWS generating tests as part of automated code modernisation | aws.amazon.com, 2026-09-10 | Read on 2026-09-13. AWS Transform assesses an application for testability, plans which classes and methods to cover, and generates the tests as part of the migration job, describing the result as an automated test safety net. It does not say whether anyone checks that the generated tests are correct, and a safety net nobody has inspected is not evidence of a safer migration. |
| AWS putting agent-led incident investigation into the channel where on-call engineers already work | aws.amazon.com, 2026-09-11 | Read on 2026-09-13. Engineers start and steer an investigation by mentioning the agent in a connected Slack channel, and the agent contributes findings and recommended actions. The announcement never states what the agent may do without approval, so recording it would add a product offer carrying no information about control. |