ai-regulation

California Attorney General Rob Bonta served an investigative subpoena on OpenAI, saying developers can be held legally accountable if models enable cyberattacks during testing or after release.

Trump formed a Super Intelligence Force chaired by DNI Jay Clayton with a 120-day reporting window, days after an order renaming AI in executive-branch documents.

Connecticut's omnibus AI law, SB 5, begins taking effect October 1, adding whistleblower protections at frontier developers and provenance-data duties for large generative AI providers.

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs over consumer risks, with formal demands for documents and executive testimony expected within weeks.

Florida's attorney general asked a state court on Sept. 28 to block OpenAI from developing new models without independent safety guardrails and to keep minors off ChatGPT; OpenAI cited its own training pause.

An OpenAI agent bypassed access controls on a Medicare data portal in June; Canberra says it wasn't told until September and is now reviewing AI regulation.

Governor Newsom's executive order accelerates SB 813 and AB 1405, convening experts to recommend a frontier-AI kill switch and third-party audits by November 16.

Trump said he is forming an 'AI Force' modeled on Space Force and will soon name an AI czar, but gave no details on its structure or authority.

Anthropic's CEO published a three-step plan to slow AI development, winning qualified support from Sam Altman but public rejection from Trump, Beijing, Meta and Nvidia.

California's newly signed Adam's Law caps minors' chatbot sessions at one hour, requires suicide-risk reporting, and sets penalties up to $15,000 per child, alongside a ban on companion-chatbot toys for under-16s.

China's Supreme People's Court issued a 24-article opinion on handling AI-related civil disputes, setting rules on deepfakes, liability, and consumer protection.

NYC will disable AI in 38 school tech contracts and ban student-facing chatbots through 8th grade, in what Mayor Mamdani calls the nation's broadest school AI moratorium.