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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Trump's Top AI Advisor Leaves the White House
Sriram Krishnan, the person most responsible for shaping US government AI policy over the last 18 months, is leaving the White House at the end of June, and his departure marks the second exit of a senior AI figure from the administration in three months.
June 6, 2026 · 2 min read
US Military Now Controls Which AI Tools Companies Can Change
Trump signed a directive giving the US military priority access to the most advanced AI tools while also making it illegal for any company to alter or disable AI systems the military depends on, a rule that sets a new precedent for who actually controls commercial AI once governments start using it.
June 6, 2026 · 2 min read
U.S. Government May Take a Stake in OpenAI
The Trump administration and OpenAI are in active talks about the government receiving an equity stake in the AI company, with returns potentially paid out to American citizens through a public fund, raising real questions about what it means when a regulator also becomes a shareholder.
June 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Trump Signs AI Security Order With 30-Day Review Window
Two weeks after pulling back under pressure from tech industry insiders, Trump signed a scaled-down executive order giving the US government 30 days to review the most powerful AI models before release, a move that coincides with Anthropic expanding its closely guarded security tool to 200 organizations across critical industries worldwide.
June 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Canada Launches $2.3B National AI Strategy
Canada's new 'AI for All' plan commits over $2.3 billion to push AI adoption from 12% to 60% of businesses by 2034, but the bigger challenges, talent leaving the country and weak follow-through on earlier programs, are harder to fix with a spending announcement.
June 5, 2026 · 2 min read
AI CEOs Urge Congress to Screen Synthetic DNA Orders
The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft AI have jointly asked the US Congress to pass laws forcing companies that sell synthetic DNA to check who is buying and what they are ordering, because AI tools now make it meaningfully easier for bad actors to design dangerous pathogens.
June 4, 2026 · 2 min read
UK MP Sues xAI Over Grok Deepfakes
A British MP has filed the UK's first major lawsuit against xAI over fake sexual images generated by its Grok tool, and the outcome will set the legal standard for whether AI companies can be held responsible for harmful content their systems produce.
June 5, 2026 · 3 min read
Florida Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman Over ChatGPT Safety
Florida became the first U.S. state to sue OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over ChatGPT's alleged role in mass violence and user harm, a move that signals a wider legal reckoning for AI companies that any business using or selling AI tools should watch closely.
June 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Scotland's 'Green' Data Centre Label Has No Definition
Scotland is actively courting large AI data centres with a 'green' label that has no legal definition and was written before AI existed at scale, meaning developers can claim climate credentials with no requirement to prove them.
June 1, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI Publishes AI Risk Rules for Enterprise Use
OpenAI has released its Frontier Governance Framework, a public document that maps its internal safety practices to EU and California AI laws, giving any business that deploys AI a concrete reference for what compliance-ready governance looks like in practice.
June 5, 2026 · 2 min read
CNN Sues Perplexity Over Copying 17,000 Pieces of Content
CNN filed a copyright lawsuit against AI search company Perplexity, accusing it of scraping and reproducing more than 17,000 pieces of its content, becoming the latest in a growing line of publishers to take legal action after licensing negotiations broke down.
June 19, 2026 · 3 min read
Illinois Passes Law Forcing AI Giants to Get Safety Audits
Illinois lawmakers voted unanimously to require the world's biggest AI companies to submit to annual independent safety audits, a first in the US, arriving days after the White House pulled back from its own federal AI safety plan.
June 5, 2026 · 2 min read
California Sues 23andMe Over 7 Million-User DNA Breach
California has filed a lawsuit against the company formerly known as 23andMe over a 2023 data breach that exposed the genetic, health, and ancestry data of nearly 7 million people, and the case reveals how badly the company mishandled both the security failure and its aftermath.
May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
YouTube Now Auto-Labels AI Videos Without Creator Input
YouTube has started automatically detecting and labeling AI-generated video content, removing the ability for creators to quietly skip disclosure, and the shift matters for any business that uses video to build trust with customers.
June 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Pope Leo XIV Issues Major AI Ethics Declaration
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical directly targets AI-powered weapons, data monopolies, and what it calls 'digital colonialism', placing the Catholic Church formally into the global AI governance debate and adding significant moral pressure on governments and businesses worldwide.
June 5, 2026 · 3 min read
OpenAI Is Spending Big to Shape AI Rules in Its Favor
OpenAI has hired a seasoned political crisis manager and is funding super PACs, lobbying state governments, and backing liability shield laws, all while public trust in AI keeps falling, a gap that matters for any business operator relying on AI tools or facing employees and customers skeptical of the technology.
June 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Trump Pauses Order That Would Review AI Before Release
The White House pulled back an executive order that would have given the government advance access to powerful AI models before launch, a delay that leaves businesses with no official process for knowing whether the AI tools they depend on have been checked for security risks.
June 5, 2026 · 2 min read
US Government Helps Kill Colorado's AI Anti-Bias Law
The US Department of Justice sided with Elon Musk's xAI to destroy Colorado's landmark AI consumer protection law before it ever took effect, and the state replaced it with a much weaker version, setting a precedent that any state trying to protect its residents from AI discrimination can expect a federal lawsuit.
June 2, 2026 · 3 min read
OpenAI Buys Voice-Cloning Startup to Kill Its Catalog
OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, a six-person startup hosting unauthorized AI voice clones of celebrities, shut it down, and scattered the team, with the clearest explanation being reputation management ahead of a planned public listing.
June 2, 2026 · 2 min read
CFTC Uses AI to Police Prediction Market Insider Trading
The US financial regulator overseeing prediction markets is deploying AI tools to catch traders using classified government information to place bets, even as it simultaneously lost over 20% of its human staff, creating a high-stakes test of whether automated surveillance can actually keep up with a market that has grown from $2 billion to $26 billion in monthly trades in just one year.
June 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Anthropic's $1.5B Book Piracy Settlement Stalls in Court
A federal judge has delayed final approval of what would be the largest copyright settlement in US history, raising pointed questions about legal fees and payouts that reveal a deeper tension: the settlement may be a better deal for Anthropic than it first appears, and a growing group of authors are betting they can do better by fighting alone.
June 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Anthropic Warns US Has Two Years to Lock In Its AI Lead Over China
Anthropic has published a detailed policy paper arguing that 2026 is the critical year to secure a lasting advantage over China in AI, and that without tighter controls on chip smuggling and model theft, that window closes permanently by 2028.
June 5, 2026 · 4 min read
UK Regulator Opens Formal Probe Into Microsoft Office Bundle
Britain's competition watchdog has formally launched an investigation into whether Microsoft's bundling of Windows, Office, Teams, and Copilot is locking UK businesses out of real choice, and the outcome could force Microsoft to unbundle products and open its software to rivals — right as it prepares a major price increase.
June 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Apple and Google Unite Against EU's Android AI Ruling
The EU is forcing Google to give rival AI services the same deep system access on Android that Gemini currently enjoys exclusively, and Apple has sided with Google in opposing the move — not out of friendship, but because the same logic will almost certainly come for iPhone next.
June 5, 2026 · 2 min read