AI Regulation

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly plan a self-regulatory body for frontier AI covering pre-release testing, incident reporting and auditor certification, targeting a launch by year-end or early 2027.

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.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI and Nvidia signed a nonbinding White House pledge on model monitoring and independent audits, drawing mixed reactions.

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.

A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 that the Pentagon can keep Anthropic on its supply-chain-risk blacklist over the company's refusal to unlock Claude for autonomous weapons and surveillance.

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.

Newly unredacted filings in the NYT v. OpenAI and Microsoft copyright suit quote a Microsoft director calling AI scraping practices theft and OpenAI's ChatGPT head calling them an existential threat to publishers.

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.