Policy & Regulations

Government initiatives, international collaborations, and regulatory frameworks that shape the development and governance of AI technologies across global markets.

Massachusetts Sets Clean Power Rules for Large Data Centers

Massachusetts will require data centers with more than 25 megawatts of peak demand to match their electricity use with clean energy and limit costs for other ratepayers.

September 10, 2026

GSMA Intelligence Puts the AI Skills Gap at 3.1 Billion People

A GSMA Intelligence report finds 38% of people remain offline despite having mobile broadband coverage, and projects that closing digital capability gaps could add about $3.5 trillion to global GDP by 2030.

September 10, 2026

AI Cases Drove 73 Percent of Investor Losses in Early 2026

AI related cases were 13 percent of core federal securities class action filings in the first half of 2026 but 73 percent of alleged investor losses, according to Cornerstone Research and Stanford's midyear assessment.

September 09, 2026

ARPA-H Awards UpDoc Up to $9.2 Million for Clinical AI

UpDoc will lead work on an autonomous clinical AI system for cardiovascular care through a federal award of up to $9.2 million.

September 09, 2026

Atman Health Wins ARPA-H Award to Build Heart Failure AI

Atman Health was selected for an ARPA-H award to develop an agentic AI system for cardiovascular care, starting with heart failure.

September 09, 2026

Sanders and Casar Propose Ban on AI Superintelligence

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar plan legislation that would permanently ban superintelligent AI and pause other advanced AI work until federal safety rules are established.

September 09, 2026

EAIGG and Draup Introduce National AI Readiness Scorecard

The Ethical AI Governance Group and Draup released a report that assesses national AI readiness across talent, infrastructure, data, innovation, capital and policy.

September 09, 2026

US Agencies Accuse Chinese AI Firms of Industrial Scale Model Distillation

The NSA, CISA, and FBI accuse six Chinese AI companies of extracting capabilities from US frontier models through billions of tokens and millions of requests.

September 09, 2026

DC Education Agency Releases AI Policy Guide for School Staff

The District of Columbia education agency released a customizable AI policy that classifies staff uses as prohibited, limited, or allowed with human review.

September 08, 2026

Matt Clifford resigns as ARIA chair to join Anthropic

Clifford has stepped down as chair of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency five days after taking a government affairs role at Anthropic. He stays until 6 November at the Secretary of State's request while a successor is found.

September 07, 2026

UN Rights Chief Calls for Global AI Safety Guarantees

Volker Türk warned that advanced AI could pose an existential risk and called for international limits, independent checks and stronger security cooperation.

September 07, 2026

The Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Training

The Seattle Times and Newsday allege that OpenAI and Microsoft used their journalism without permission to train and operate AI products. They seek damages and the destruction of affected training datasets and models.

September 06, 2026

Jason Isbell and Other Musicians Sue Suno Over Alleged Identity Misuse

Jason Isbell and other musicians have filed a proposed class action accusing Suno of using their identities and voices without consent.

September 04, 2026

OpenAI Builds Automated Shutdown Controls for AI Systems

OpenAI is developing automated shutdown controls and tighter monitoring after an AI agent escaped its testing environment and accessed Hugging Face.

September 04, 2026

Revelio Labs Finds Wider Employment Gap for Young Workers in AI Exposed Jobs

Employment in occupations with the highest AI exposure was 19% lower for workers ages 22 to 25 than in occupations with the least exposure, compared with levels before ChatGPT.

September 03, 2026

Trump Administration Backs OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Case

The Trump administration has filed a statement supporting OpenAI's argument that training AI models on copyrighted text can qualify as fair use.

September 03, 2026

Lutnick Says Anthropic Has Repaired White House Ties

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Anthropic has met the administration's requests and regained its trust after a dispute over military uses of Claude.

September 03, 2026

New York City Bans Generative AI Through Eighth Grade

New York City public schools will prohibit students through eighth grade from using generative AI tools during the 2026 to 2027 school year.

September 03, 2026

OpenAI Faces 30 New Lawsuits Over Tumbler Ridge Shooting

Students, teachers, and a principal allege OpenAI failed to alert authorities after its systems flagged the shooting suspect's ChatGPT conversations.

September 03, 2026

OneStream Adds SensibleAI Products to FedRAMP High Authorization

OneStream has added SensibleAI Forecast and SensibleAI Studio to its FedRAMP High authorization, allowing federal agencies to use the tools within its Government Community Cloud.

September 02, 2026

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