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RegulationNYT, Authors Guild, OpenAI and Microsoft all move for summary judgment in consolidated copyright case2026-09-13 · Cross-motions filed September 4-5 ask Judge Sidney Stein to decide the core fair-use question in the New York-based multidistrict litigation without a trial. Opposition briefs are due in October.RegulationFive tech trade groups ask Congress to strip AI chip export bills from the NDAA2026-09-13 · ITI, CCIA, and three other industry associations are lobbying against folding the AI Overwatch Act, the Chip Security Act, and the Match Act into the FY2027 defense authorization bill.RegulationCalifornia bans autoplay and algorithmic feeds for under-16 users, passed with zero opposition2026-09-10 · AB 1709, part of the same 13-bill child-safety package as Adam's Law and the AI-CSAM statute, targets the engagement mechanics behind AI-personalized feeds specifically -- not AI chatbots, the focus of the package's other headline bills.RegulationCalifornia's "Adam's Law" gives families a legal path to sue chatbot operators2026-09-10 · A 13-bill package, headlined by SB 1119 and named for a teenager whose 2025 death was linked to ChatGPT conversations, requires age verification and self-harm safeguards -- and creates statutory damages up to $250,000 per violation, effective July 2027.RegulationCalifornia closes the loophole around AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery2026-09-10 · SB 1276 expands the state's child sexual-exploitation statute to explicitly cover "any digitally altered or AI-generated matter" depicting a minor -- signed the same day as the broader Adam's Law chatbot-liability package.RegulationA bipartisan federal AI safety bill is taking shape -- Klobuchar, Cruz, and Thune2026-09-10 · Text isn't public yet, but three senators from opposite ends of the AI-policy spectrum are working together on "catastrophic risk" guardrails -- the first sign of a bipartisan federal push rather than a party-line proposal.RegulationA UK commission wants medical AI regulated as it changes, not approved once and left alone2026-09-10 · After a year-long review and evidence from more than 12,000 people, a commission chaired by NHS doctors proposes replacing one-time device approval with staged authorization and continuous real-world monitoring.RegulationCalifornia creates the first state-registered AI-auditor industry2026-09-09 · Two new laws, signed the same day, set up a formal framework for third-party organizations to verify AI systems' compliance with state law and a state registry of who's qualified to do it.RegulationOpenAI reverses course, calls for mandatory national AI safety rules2026-09-09 · Chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane's policy statement asks Congress to legislate binding, capability-based safety requirements before it adjourns in December -- and backs four California AI bills OpenAI had previously opposed.RegulationFlorida's AG wants companies criminally liable when their chatbots help commit crimes2026-09-08 · James Uthmeier's proposal, floated at a Tampa press conference with no bill drafted yet, would let prosecutors go after any company with practical control over an AI system's design or safety settings -- fines, victim restitution, and court-ordered monitoring included.RegulationFOIA documents show OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI embedded deep in Pentagon AI work2026-09-08 · Contracts worth up to $200M per company, obtained via a FOIA lawsuit, detail two-way data sharing and embedded engineers -- and Anthropic's refusal to sign a follow-up deal without bans on domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons use.RegulationChina commits $532B to quadruple AI computing capacity by 2030, built entirely on domestic chips2026-09-07 · A five-year plan from China's industry ministry targets 9,800 exaflops of compute (more than four times current capacity), deliberately avoiding reliance on foreign chips given US export controls.RegulationA UK Lords amendment would give ministers emergency shutdown power over AI data centres2026-09-07 · Tabled cross-party in the House of Lords, the amendment would let the Secretary of State order emergency shutdown of AI systems posing a "catastrophic risk" and require data-centre operators to pre-install kill-switch infrastructure.RegulationCanada signed 23 AI and tech firms onto a voluntary data-centre buildout framework2026-09-03 · The Responsible Data Centre Development Principles, announced by AI Minister Evan Solomon, ask OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Meta, AWS, and 17 others to commit to five voluntary rules, including not shifting infrastructure costs onto ordinary ratepayers, as public opinion on the AI buildout sours.RegulationSpain's government will pursue a national "AI pact" covering regulation, labor, and taxation2026-09-02 · A tripartite pact bringing together business, unions, and technical experts -- announced by Vice President Carlos Cuerpo on PM Sánchez's behalf, in a country that already runs the EU's first national AI supervision agency.RegulationUK financial regulator finds frontier AI is outpacing banks' own cyber-defense governance2026-09-02 · The FCA's multi-firm review found frontier models accelerate vulnerability discovery for attackers and defenders alike, but exposed weak governance, access management, and remediation processes at the firms using them.RegulationThe DOJ filed a brief backing OpenAI's fair-use defense against The New York Times2026-09-01 · The 20-page Statement of Interest, filed September 1 in the SDNY, argues that AI training on copyrighted text is fair use and warns that ruling otherwise would hand the AI industry to whichever companies can afford licensing -- a different, ongoing case from Anthropic's own book-piracy settlement covered here in August.RegulationBrussels sent its first AI Act enforcement letters -- to more than 30 companies2026-09-01 · Four weeks after the AI Act's toughest obligations became enforceable, the EU's AI Office used its new powers for the first time, demanding proof of safety testing and training-data disclosures from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and dozens of other model providers.RegulationA federal court ruled judicial immunity applies even if a judge let AI write her ruling2026-08-30 · The court didn't decide whether Nevada judge Mari Parlade delegated her decision to AI. It dismissed the case because issuing a ruling is a normal judicial function, which immunizes the judge regardless of how the ruling was produced.RegulationMeta's up-to-$18 billion child-safety settlement requires better AI age-checking within a year2026-08-26 · The deal with a 52-attorney-general coalition pays out over ten years, with roughly 30% of the total contingent on YouTube and TikTok adopting similar changes. It requires Meta to upgrade photo-based AI age-assurance technology, audited by outside reviewers.RegulationAlabama's attorney general subpoenaed OpenAI over the Hugging Face breach2026-08-25 · Steve Marshall's office is demanding documents on safety protocols and model-behavior records under the state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act, the first state enforcement action tied to an agentic AI security incident.RegulationCalifornia lawmakers passed a bill requiring 45 days' notice before an employer deploys generative AI into a union job2026-08-25 · AB 2656 cleared the Senate 39-0 on August 24 and got Assembly concurrence 74-2 the next day -- now enrolled and awaiting Governor Newsom's signature, not yet signed as of this writing.RegulationA federal judge gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion book-piracy settlement2026-08-24 · Bartz v. Anthropic, the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in US history, pays roughly $3,000 per work across an estimated 500,000 books after Anthropic was found to have built a library from pirated copies. A separate ruling held that training on lawfully acquired books was fair use.RegulationChina's first AI companion law took effect July 15 -- and some services shut down rather than comply2026-08-24 · The Interim Measures for the Management of Anthropomorphic AI Interactive Services require disclosure that a service isn't human, anti-addiction safeguards, and a ban on virtual companion services for minors -- issued jointly by five government bodies including the Cyberspace Administration of China.