AI Regulation
Australia Won't Set Data-Centre Standards Yet, Only Develop Them
The communiqué contains no megawatt figure, no dollar figure, and no mention of renewables. The provision with teeth is simply absent from the agreed text.
4d ago
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US AI Regulation
Alabama's OpenAI Subpoena Doesn't Name Altman, And Predates the PR
The headline says OpenAI and Sam Altman, and a massive AI data breach. The instrument is addressed to one LLC, and the company that was breached was Hugging Face.
5d ago
China AI Regulation
China's Draft Law Puts the Ticket on Carmakers, But Only In First Reading
A revision of the Road Traffic Safety Law adds a chapter on autonomous vehicles. Two things it does not do are the two things the headlines said it does.
5d ago
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.
Aug 16, 2026
AI Regulation
German NGO Files Criminal Complaint Over Meta's Smart Glasses
HateAid invoked a law banning recording devices disguised as everyday objects. Executives face up to two years if prosecutors take it up.
Aug 13, 2026
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
Judge Ordered Meta to Build an AI Age Classifier, Not Touch Feed
$567m into an abatement fund and a dedicated under-13 age-prediction model within two years. Infinite scroll and autoplay were left alone on First Amendment grounds.
Aug 9, 2026
AI Safety
White House Will Test Closed Models for 30 Days, Not Open Weights
Administration officials told Meta, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI this week that the voluntary pre-release security review covers proprietary frontier systems only — a decision Anthropic has spent a year arguing against.
Aug 6, 2026
US AI Regulation
Louisiana Adds AI Deepfake Ad Rules Beside Hard-Labor Penalties
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, But Three Quarters Didn't
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
EU AI Act
EU Starts Enforcing AI Act Sunday, But Most Is Deferred
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
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 Safety
A Bipartisan Bill Would Let DHS Order a Frontier AI Model Shut Down
H.R. 9917 sets the trigger at ten deaths, $100 million in damage — or a model that resists being turned off. Non-compliance costs $20 million a day.
Jul 24, 2026
US AI Regulation
Anthropic Doubles Its Political Spending to $40 Million Ahead of the Midterms
A second $20 million donation to Public First Action puts the AI lab on the opposite side of a fight from the Andreessen- and Brockman-backed network that opposes strict AI rules.
Jul 22, 2026
US AI Regulation
US Weighs a FINRA-Style AI Watchdog That Would Vet Top Models for the SEC
A proposal developed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent would create an independent agency, modeled on FINRA and reporting to the SEC, to review frontier models about 30 days before release. It is a proposal only.
Jul 20, 2026
AI Safety
San Francisco Orders Apple and Google to Purge AI 'Nudify' Apps From Their Stores
City Attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters over 13 apps that generate nonconsensual sexual deepfakes, giving the two companies 28 days to act or face penalties.
Jul 18, 2026
OpenAI
OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.6 to the Public — Sol, Terra and Luna
The three tiers are reaching ChatGPT, the API and Codex today, ending a nearly two-week government-coordinated preview that had held the model to about 20 vetted partners — though the rollout is staged, not flipped on for everyone at once.
Jul 9, 2026
US AI Regulation
Illinois Enacts the First US Law Requiring Frontier-AI Safety Audits
Governor Pritzker signed SB 315, forcing the largest AI developers to undergo annual independent safety audits, publish catastrophic-risk plans and report incidents — a state answer to a stalled federal debate.
Jul 8, 2026
OpenAI
OpenAI Wins US Clearance to Launch GPT-5.6 Widely
The Commerce Department's AI standards body signed off after weeks of testing — ending a preview limited to about 20 vetted partners and making GPT-5.6 the first frontier model to ship on the government's schedule, not OpenAI's.
Jul 8, 2026
AI Regulation
White House Nears Voluntary AI-Release Deal With OpenAI, Anthropic and Google
An announcement could come within days: benchmarks, release timelines and access rules for frontier models — a framework a former White House adviser already calls licensing by another name.
Jul 7, 2026
China AI Regulation
ByteDance and Alibaba Kill Custom AI Companions Before China's July 15 Rules
China's rules for humanlike AI take effect July 15 — and rather than retrofit compliance, Doubao and Qwen are shutting their custom agents down, with user data on a deletion clock.
Jul 7, 2026
US AI Regulation
US Frontier-AI Order Hits Its First Deadlines
A June executive order set the machinery for federal review of powerful AI models in motion; the first agency deadlines fell on July 2, with a bigger one due August 1.
Jul 5, 2026
AI Regulation
UN Opens Its First Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva
The UN's first Global Dialogue on AI Governance convenes in Geneva on July 6, bringing member states together under one standing process to coordinate rules for the technology.
Jul 5, 2026
EU AI Act
EU Gains Enforcement Power Over AI Models on August 2
From August 2, the European Commission can demand documentation, test models and force changes — with fines up to €15 million or 3% of global revenue.
Jul 4, 2026
