Policy & Regulation

Executive Order N-5-26 requires AI vendors seeking California state contracts to certify safeguards against illegal content, bias, and civil rights violations within 120 days.

A DOJ final rule requires state and local governments serving 50,000-plus residents to make all digital services WCAG 2.1 AA compliant by April 24, 2026.

A federal judge in Manhattan has ordered OpenAI to hand over more than 100 million de-identified ChatGPT conversation logs to copyright plaintiffs, marking the most aggressive discovery ruling yet in the sprawling litigation over AI training on copyrighted material.

China's Announcement 18 export controls on seven rare earth elements remain permanently active, disrupting defense supply chains and forcing the U.S. to accelerate a mine-to-magnet strategy still years from completion.

A presidential proclamation replaces flat-rate Section 232 duties with a five-tier framework imposing up to 50 percent tariffs on steel, aluminum, and copper imports, effective April 6.

The UK government is redesigning data.gov.uk after finding a quarter of its links broken, shifting from uncurated volume to a curated, AI-ready service as part of a 1.9 billion pound digital push.

The CFPB's April 1 compliance deadline for its landmark Personal Financial Data Rights rule passed without enforcement after a federal judge enjoined the regulation and the agency itself declared it unlawful, leaving the future of U.S. open banking to a market moving faster than its regulators.

The FCC seeks public comment on dedicated drone spectrum bands, streamlined experimental licensing, and new innovation zones as part of the Trump administration's push to replace banned foreign drones with domestic alternatives.

Google is contesting antitrust rulings in two landmark U.S. cases while the EU demands structural changes to its ad tech business, creating the most concentrated legal threat to a single technology company in a generation.

The contract modification funds engineering, integration, and long-lead production work for the Conventional Prompt Strike program as USS Zumwalt prepares for live-fire testing following its January sea trials.

Juries in Los Angeles and New Mexico found Meta and Google liable for addictive platform design and child safety failures, awarding $381 million and setting a legal precedent for thousands of pending cases.

At least nine bills across six states have been introduced in 2026 to regulate the collection of brain and nervous system data, as consumer neurotechnology devices proliferate and the federal MIND Act awaits action in Congress.