AI Safety
Singapore Criminalises AI-Generated Intimate Images From Monday
Producing them without consent carries up to two years. If the subject is under 14, imprisonment is mandatory and caning is available.
2d ago
AI Regulation News
Governments are writing the rules for AI in real time. This hub tracks AI laws, enforcement actions, policy proposals and governance frameworks across the EU, US, UK, China and beyond — with what each change means for companies building or deploying AI.
Latest AI Regulation News
Education AI
Modi Promised AI Training for 10 Million Indians in a Year. The Current Scheme Has Certified 25,466.
The Independence Day pledge is roughly 400 times the existing programme's output, with no budget, delivery partner or definition of what counts as training.
2d ago
US AI Regulation
A Federal Judge Refused to Call an AI Notetaker a Party to the Call
Otter.ai argued its bot was a participant, not an eavesdropper. The court disagreed, and wiretap and biometric claims are now heading into discovery.
4d ago
AI Regulation
A German NGO Filed a Criminal Complaint Over Meta's Smart Glasses — and Named the Shops Selling Them
HateAid invoked a law banning recording devices disguised as everyday objects. Executives face up to two years if prosecutors take it up.
5d ago
EU AI Act
Anthropic Will Watermark Everything Claude Writes — Everywhere, Not Just in Europe
An invisible text mark plus C2PA metadata on images, applied worldwide to satisfy one article of the EU AI Act. It surfaced in a support document, not an announcement.
6d ago
AI Regulation
South Australia Called a Royal Commission Into AI. It Has No Commissioners Yet.
About A$3 million, three commissioners, evidence from October and a report due by July 2027. The Premier signed an OpenAI agreement weeks before announcing it.
Aug 10, 2026
US AI Regulation
Flock Pitched Georgia on 350,000 Rideshare Dashcams. The Drivers Bought Them Themselves.
A presentation obtained by public records request describes police access to Uber, Lyft and delivery cameras through a Nexar partnership.
Aug 9, 2026
China AI Regulation
China Published the First Binding Safety Standard for L3 and L4 Driving. It Does Not Mention Lidar.
GB 44721-2026 turns a 2024 voluntary specification into a mandatory national standard, effective July 2027. A widely repeated claim that it forces lidar onto L4 vehicles and outlaws camera-only systems is not in the text.
Aug 4, 2026
AI Safety
The White House Says Its Frontier-Model Framework Is Finished. It Has Not Published It.
Executive Order 14409 gave the administration 60 days to design a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced models. The deadline was 1 August. The announcement came on 3 August, and the document itself remains unreleased.
Aug 4, 2026
AI Copyright
A Moscow Court Called Prompting a Mechanical Act. The Images Got No Copyright.
The ruling denies protection to AI-generated pictures on the grounds that issuing commands to a model is technical work, not creative authorship. No court name, case number or ruling date has been published.
Aug 3, 2026
China AI Regulation
Xiaomi Complained About AI Crash Videos. One Poster Got Seven Days in Detention.
Chinese police detained one social media user and fined another over fabricated AI footage of Xiaomi cars crashing. No court was involved, and the whole thing took days.
Aug 3, 2026
US AI Regulation
Louisiana Now Sends People to Hard Labor for AI Images. A Political-Ad Rule Arrived Beside It.
House Bill 119 took effect on August 1 with sentences of five to twenty years for AI-generated sexual imagery of minors. A second law in the same batch put AI disclosure onto political advertising three months before the midterms.
Aug 2, 2026
US AI Regulation
California's AI Labelling Law Went Live the Same Day as Brussels. Three Quarters of It Did Not.
SB 942 became operative on August 2 for the largest generative-AI providers. The platform, hosting and camera duties everyone is describing are deferred to 2027 and 2028 — and the amendment that set this date pushed it back, not forward.
Aug 2, 2026
China AI Regulation
China Briefed 70 Countries at the UN on an Organisation That Does Not Yet Function
The World AI Cooperation Organization has 29 signatories and a headquarters in Shanghai. It has no disclosed budget, no secretariat and no ratification timetable.
Aug 1, 2026
EU AI Act
About 190 Organisations Signed the EU's AI Transparency Code. The Two Lists Add Up to 235.
Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Mistral are on the provider list. The counting is confusing because companies sign both sections — and the Commission's own pages disagree.
Aug 1, 2026
EU AI Act
Brussels Starts Enforcing the AI Act on Sunday. Most of It Has Been Deferred to 2027 and Beyond.
Article 50 transparency duties apply from 2 August and the AI Office gains powers over general-purpose model providers. The high-risk regime that the argument was about is not among them.
Aug 1, 2026
AI Safety
A Judge Refused to Block Minnesota's Nudification Law. He Said Nothing About the First Amendment.
xAI lost its emergency motion on timing, not on the merits. The law took effect on Saturday, and the constitutional challenge gets a real hearing on 19 August.
Aug 1, 2026
AI Copyright
The Record Industry Barred AI Tracks From Its Charts. Billboard Is Not One of Them.
IFPI's principles are live in MENA, Southeast Asia, South Africa and parts of Latin America. The two charts that matter most have committed to nothing.
Jul 31, 2026
US AI Regulation
The First US Exemption for a Driverless Passenger Car Also Lets a Human Drive It by Remote
NHTSA freed Zoox from parts of eight federal safety standards. The 2,500-vehicle cap everyone is quoting is the statutory maximum, not a Zoox-specific award.
Jul 31, 2026
AI Copyright
A Munich Court Ruled That the Copies Are Inside the Model
The Landgericht München I found for GEMA against Suno on both limbs — the training and the output. It is a first-instance judgment, it is appealable, and it sets no damages figure.
Jul 31, 2026
EU AI Act
Brussels Is About to Regulate ChatGPT Like a Social Network
ChatGPT and Roblox have crossed the Digital Services Act's 45-million-user threshold. Designation could come as soon as August, bringing risk audits, transparency reports and exposure to fines of up to 6% of global revenue.
Jul 30, 2026
AI Chips
Europe Opened Bidding for Seven AI Gigafactories. About €1 Billion of the €10 Billion Exists.
EuroHPC's call went live on Thursday morning with a 12 November deadline. The public half of the money depends on a 2028–2035 budget member states have not agreed, and the chips will come from AMD, Nvidia and Qualcomm.
Jul 30, 2026
Manufacturing AI
The FCC Just Blocked New Foreign Robots From the US Market, and Not Only Chinese Ones
Public Notice DA 26-786 adds humanoid and quadruped robots and grid inverters to the Covered List. The legal text identifies equipment by where it is made, not by who makes it.
Jul 29, 2026
Healthcare AI
The FDA Cleared a Rebuilt Contraception Algorithm Without a Single New Trial Result
Natural Cycles needed a fresh 510(k) submission for this model change. The effectiveness figures in the announcement belong to the product it replaces.
Jul 28, 2026
US AI Regulation
xAI Is Suing to Kill America's First Nudification Ban, Four Days Before It Bites
Minnesota's law takes effect on 1 August with penalties up to $500,000 per violation. xAI filed a First Amendment challenge on Monday arguing it sweeps in shorts and swimsuits.
Jul 28, 2026
China AI Regulation
Beijing's Answer to Threatened AI Sanctions: Your Labs Distilled Our Models First
China's Commerce Ministry called the threatened US investigation 'typical AI hegemonism' and inverted the core accusation, saying many American AI companies trained on Chinese models.
Jul 28, 2026
Nvidia
Taiwan's AI Server Smuggling Case Just Reached Nvidia Itself
Prosecutors in Keelung detained an Nvidia business development manager over end-user paperwork that allegedly helped restricted servers clear export review before being diverted to China.
Jul 28, 2026
AI Regulation
Malaysia Is Drafting a Binding AI Law, and It Looks a Lot Like Europe's
The National AI Office published a consultation document for an AI Governance Act with three risk tiers, incident reporting and a central authority — replacing voluntary ethics guidelines.
Jul 27, 2026
AI Regulation
An Indian Cabinet Minister Just Got Permission to Sue Meta, Google and X Over Deepfakes
Nitin Gadkari's ₹11-crore defamation suit targets AI-generated videos claiming he profits from a fuel policy his ministry does not run. The court has cleared it to be filed — nothing more.
Jul 27, 2026
EU AI Act
The EU's High-Risk AI Deadline Died Five Days Before It Would Have Bitten
Regulation 2026/1744 entered into force overnight, moving the AI Act's August 2 obligations to December 2027. The general-purpose model rules — and the fines behind them — still start on schedule.
Jul 27, 2026
