AI Regulation

A coming White House executive order would require AI labs to share frontier models with the government 90 days before public release, but infighting between economic and national security factions has delayed the response to Anthropic's Mythos.

Polis signed SB 26-189 on May 14, repealing the duty of care, impact assessments, and risk management mandates of SB 24-205 in favor of an ADMT notice-and-explain regime taking effect January 1, 2027.

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.

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.

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.

The Trump administration's drive to create a single federal AI framework is colliding with a bipartisan wall of state resistance, setting up a constitutional battle that could define AI governance for a generation.

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 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.

The EU Council and Parliament endorsed amendments delaying high-risk AI system deadlines by up to 16 months and banning nonconsensual deepfake imagery, as Amnesty International warns of a rights rollback.