Policy & Regulation

The Commerce Department's AI standards center will evaluate the three labs' frontier models in classified environments before public release, expanding a program that began with Anthropic and OpenAI in 2024.

Minnesota's HF 1606 cleared the state Senate 65-0 after a 132-1 House vote, sending an AI 'nudification' app ban to Gov. Tim Walz with $500,000 civil penalties and a private right of action.

Target updated its consumer terms to treat any purchase placed by an Agentic Commerce Agent as a transaction "authorized by you," shifting AI mistake liability to shoppers ahead of its Gemini-powered checkout launch.

Governor Wes Moore signed HB 895 on April 28, prohibiting large food retailers and delivery apps from using personal data to set individualized prices, but consumer advocates say loopholes and a 45-day cure period weaken the bill.

The Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of eight states secured a proposed consent order banning the three holding companies from coordinating brand safety standards or maintaining shared exclusion lists.

A new joint program from FDA and CMS would issue a proposed Medicare coverage decision the same day a breakthrough device wins FDA authorization, aiming to cut total time-to-coverage from roughly a year or more to about two months.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled April 10 that Section 230 does not bar Attorney General Andrea Campbell's lawsuit against Meta over Instagram's addictive design, the first such ruling by any state's highest court.

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed SB 1580 on April 1, making it the latest state to outlaw AI systems claiming to act as qualified mental health professionals. With Maine and Nebraska following days later, the wave of state laws is hardening into a de facto national standard for AI in therapy.

Three bipartisan Senate bills and a House companion measure introduced in early 2026 would require federal disclosure of AI-related job cuts, fund workforce research, and establish a commission to recommend labor and tax policy changes.

Four months before the EU AI Act's core provisions take effect, the European Commission's public register shows that only eight of 27 member states have designated the national authorities required to enforce it.

ICE's acting director confirmed in an April letter that the agency deploys Paragon's zero-click Graphite spyware against fentanyl suspects, months after the same tool was linked to attacks on European journalists and civil society members.

Governor Hochul's March 27 chapter amendment transforms New York's RAISE Act from a vague skeleton into binding law, imposing 72-hour incident reporting and mandatory safety frameworks on frontier AI developers before federal preemption efforts can intervene.