AI Regulation
AI rules, enforcement, and policy decisions, and what each one changes for the people who have to work under them.
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Anthropic Pays $1.5B to Settle AI Copyright Case
A federal judge gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors, closing the largest copyright payout in U.S. history, though the legal question of whether training AI on copyrighted material is generally lawful remains wide open across dozens of other cases.
July 21, 2026 · 3 min read
US AI Testing Agency Loses Third Director in Months
Chris Fall, the director of the U.S. government's main AI safety testing body, resigned after just three months, continuing a pattern of leadership instability at an agency that is already being sidelined by the White House on key AI security decisions.
July 20, 2026 · 2 min read
AI Hiring Tools Stereotype More Than Humans Do
A Princeton and University of Chicago study published in July 2026 found that AI models used in hiring form stronger group-based stereotypes than people do, and with major lawsuits and new EU rules arriving simultaneously, employers who let AI screen candidates without proper checks are now carrying real legal and reputational exposure.
July 20, 2026 · 2 min read
AI in HR Is Growing Fast. So Is the Legal Risk.
Companies are rushing to automate HR tasks like hiring, payroll, and performance reviews, but a wave of new laws across the US and Europe now holds employers legally responsible for every decision their AI tools influence, making human oversight not just good practice but a legal requirement.
July 20, 2026 · 2 min read
Australia Sets New Rules for AI in Government Decisions
Australia is building a national set of rules to limit how government agencies use automated AI systems to make decisions that affect citizens, a direct response to the Robodebt disaster that wrongly pursued hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients for debts they did not owe.
July 19, 2026 · 3 min read
China Launches 29-Nation AI Governance Body in Shanghai
China formally established the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization with 29 founding members, all from outside the Western bloc, creating a separate set of AI rules for a large part of the world and splitting global AI governance in two.
July 18, 2026 · 2 min read
UK's New PM Plans to Close AI Policy Department
Andy Burnham, set to become UK Prime Minister on July 20, wants to fold the country's dedicated technology department into a larger business ministry, drawing sharp criticism from tech investors and officials at the exact moment the UK is competing for AI investment against Paris and other European cities.
July 18, 2026 · 2 min read
San Francisco Orders Apple and Google to Pull AI Nudify Apps
San Francisco's city attorney has sent legal notices to Apple and Google demanding the removal of 13 AI apps that create fake nude images of real people, citing California law and accusing both companies of earning millions from in-app purchases inside these apps.
July 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Germany Rules AI Search Answers Are Publisher Content
German regulators have formally ruled that AI-generated search summaries from Google and Perplexity count as the companies' own published content, opening both firms to media law obligations and legal liability for what their AI says, in a move that could spread across Europe.
July 16, 2026 · 3 min read
AI Rules Now Differ by Country: What That Costs You
Countries worldwide are writing their own rules about where AI data can live and how AI decisions must be reviewed, which means any company operating across borders is quietly accumulating a compliance bill that most boards have never seen.
July 16, 2026 · 3 min read
UK Investigates TikTok Over Child Age Checks
Britain's online regulator has opened a formal investigation into TikTok's age-checking methods, finding they may have missed a significant number of children, as the UK prepares a full ban on social media for under-16s by early 2027.
July 16, 2026 · 3 min read
EU Orders Google to Open Android and Search to AI Rivals
The EU has issued binding orders requiring Google to give rival AI assistants the same deep access to Android phones that its own Gemini enjoys, and to share core search data with competing search engines and AI services, with deadlines running into 2027 and fines of up to $35 billion for non-compliance.
July 16, 2026 · 3 min read
xAI Sues Its Own User Over AI-Generated Child Abuse Images
Elon Musk's xAI filed a civil lawsuit against a South Carolina man for using Grok to create child sexual abuse images, making it one of the first times an AI company has gone on legal offense against a user, even as xAI itself faces multiple lawsuits over the same platform's design.
July 16, 2026 · 2 min read
US Launches AI Cyber Clearinghouse Gold Eagle
The White House launched Gold Eagle, a government-run hub to coordinate AI-powered software security fixes, arriving just as industry groups had already launched their own competing programs to solve the same problem.
July 15, 2026 · 2 min read
US AI Safety Rules Are Taking Shape, State by State
Three US states covering roughly 40% of the AI market have now passed aligned AI safety laws, creating a de facto national standard before Congress has acted, and that convergence is beginning to shape what a federal law may look like.
July 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Australia Creates AI Office, Protects Creators from Big Tech
Australia's Prime Minister has established a new national AI office and promised to legally protect writers, musicians, and journalists from having their work used to train AI without payment, while also requiring large data centre operators to produce more electricity than they consume.
July 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Publishers Sue Google for Training Gemini on Their Books
Major book publishers filed a class action lawsuit accusing Google of using millions of copyrighted books, supplied for services like Google Books and Google Play, to secretly train its Gemini AI without permission or payment, adding pressure to an already expensive legal battle that cost Anthropic $1.5 billion in a similar case.
July 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta Sued for Using AI to Pick Layoff Targets
Twenty-six former Meta employees are suing the company, claiming its internal AI tools ranked workers for layoffs in a way that automatically penalized anyone on medical or parental leave, raising a question every employer using AI for performance management now has to answer.
July 14, 2026 · 2 min read
YouTube and X Funnel Millions to AI Nudify Sites
A new report finds that mainstream platforms like YouTube and X are actively driving millions of visits to AI tools that create fake explicit images of real people without their consent, a problem that is now illegal in the US but still spreading fast.
July 14, 2026 · 3 min read
New York Bans New Large Data Centers for a Year
New York's governor signed the first statewide ban on new large data center construction, a move that signals a national turning point as communities push back on facilities that drive up electricity bills, consume vast amounts of water, and strain local power grids.
July 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Google DeepMind CEO Proposes US Body to Approve AI Models
Demis Hassabis, head of Google DeepMind, has published a detailed proposal for a US-led agency that would review the most powerful AI systems before they reach the public, in a move that signals the AI industry itself is now pushing for formal oversight before governments force it on them.
July 14, 2026 · 2 min read
EU Forces Meta to Reopen WhatsApp to ChatGPT
After banning ChatGPT and other rival AI assistants from WhatsApp for six months, Meta was ordered by the European Commission to restore free access, and ChatGPT returned to WhatsApp across Europe on July 13, 2026, meaning European users can now message an AI assistant directly inside one of the world's most-used apps without downloading anything new.
July 14, 2026 · 2 min read
US Government Uses AI to Cut Rules, Won't Show How
A DOGE-built AI tool called SweetREX has been used at the US housing agency to flag federal regulations for deletion, but the government is refusing to release documents about how it works, raising serious questions for any business operating under US federal rules.
July 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Cloudflare Blocks AI Bots on Ad Pages From Sept 15
Cloudflare is changing default settings so that AI agents and training crawlers are blocked from ad-supported web pages starting September 15, 2026, which directly affects any business using AI tools that pull live information from the web.
July 13, 2026 · 3 min read