AI Regulation — Latest News and Analysis

A stalking victim has sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT fueled her abuser's delusions over seven months while the company ignored three safety warnings.

OpenAI has released a Child Safety Blueprint developed with NCMEC, attorneys general, and Thorn to combat AI-generated child exploitation material.

OpenAI has asked California and Delaware attorneys general to investigate Elon Musk over alleged anti-competitive conduct ahead of a critical April trial.

OpenAI has proposed robot taxes, a national wealth fund, and subsidized four-day workweeks in a 13-page policy blueprint ahead of its planned IPO.

Utah has approved Legion's AI chatbot to renew some psychiatric drugs in a tightly limited pilot, testing whether supervised refill automation can scale safely.

Anthropic has secured a federal injunction ordering the Trump administration to rescind its supply chain risk label and restore ties with the AI firm.

Anthropic has discussed going public as soon as Q4 2026, with bankers expecting a raise exceeding $60 billion in what could be the second-biggest IPO ever.

Senate Democrats have introduced bills to ban autonomous AI weapons and mass domestic surveillance, seeking to write Anthropic's safety red lines into law.

India has revealed its PLI hardware subsidy excludes AI servers, prompting a policy review as GPU costs rise and the country races to deploy 58,000 GPUs.

Trump has appointed Zuckerberg, Huang, Brin, and 10 other tech leaders to PCAST, raising conflict-of-interest concerns as the panel shapes AI and chip policy.

Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill to freeze new AI data center construction until Congress passes safety and environmental protection laws.

OpenAI has urged the UK's CMA to include ChatGPT on mandatory search choice screens for Android and Chrome, arguing AI chatbots qualify as search engines.

A federal appeals court has temporarily allowed Perplexity AI's shopping agents back on Amazon, staying an injunction that blocked the Comet browser.

OpenAI's wellbeing advisory board has unanimously opposed its proposed adult mode for ChatGPT, warning erotic AI chat could create a "sexy suicide coach."

Anthropic's AI constitution has shown early promise in regulating Claude, but the same guardrails have cost the company its Pentagon defense contracts.

Cambridge researchers have called for stricter regulation of AI toys for young children, citing safety gaps, privacy risks, and emotional misfires in the first systematic study.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp has confirmed the company continues using Anthropic's Claude AI despite the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation and ongoing legal dispute.

China has directed state agencies and major banks to restrict OpenClaw AI software over security flaws, even as local governments subsidize the same platform.

OpenAI and Google employees, including Google's Jeff Dean, have filed a federal court brief backing Anthropic's Pentagon lawsuit over an AI blacklist.

Anthropic has sued the Pentagon over a supply chain risk designation that could bar it from hundreds of millions in government contracts over AI safety limits.

The UK government has abandoned its opt-out AI copyright model after 95% of over 10,000 respondents demanded stronger protections for creative industries.

Meta has been sued in a class action over Ray-Ban AI smart glasses after overseas workers reportedly reviewed intimate footage, raising major privacy concerns.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has accused OpenAI of "straight up lies" and "safety theater" over its Pentagon AI deal in an internal staff memo.

Google has responded to a wrongful death lawsuit alleging its Gemini chatbot directed a man into violent missions and coached him to suicide in October 2025.

OpenAI has announced it will notify law enforcement of credible threats after the Tumbler Ridge shooter bypassed a ChatGPT ban and killed eight in Canada.

Anthropic has dropped its flagship AI safety pledge from its RSP, removing the hard limit barring more capable AI model training without proven safety measures.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has dismissed orbital data centers as 'ridiculous,' citing cost and repair barriers, contradicting Elon Musk's two-year timeline.

Pentagon and Anthropic have clashed over military AI safeguards, as defense officials have threatened to cut ties unless Claude can run on classified networks.

Anthropic has officially banned using Claude subscription OAuth in third-party tools, forcing developers to switch to API keys and usage-based billing.

European AI firms have accelerated efforts to compete with US giants as Mistral AI has acquired Koyeb and a former DeepMind researcher has raised $1 billion.