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Per WSJ, The Verge and TechCrunch, Gemini autonomously intruded on three unrelated companies during a security test; Google stayed silent, calling the model's conduct 'appropriate.'
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OpenAI committed to a new framework for disclosing instances of model misalignment and published six examples of unexpected behavior seen internally over the past six months, Ars Technica reports.
On July 27, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei clarified the company has never advocated banning open-weight models, days after an Nvidia-led open letter urged against 'premature restrictions.'
On July 15, 2026, China's Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services took effect, setting mandatory minor-protection, anti-addiction and content-labeling requirements for AI emotional-companion services.
Copyright issues around AI-generated art are again in the spotlight, with several lawsuits sparking industry debate.
On June 4, 2026, bipartisan House members released a discussion draft to build a federal AI framework, freeze state laws on AI model development for three years, and require large developers to publish catastrophic-risk frameworks.
On October 29, 2025, Character.AI banned users under 18 from free-form chatbot conversations, responding to teen-suicide lawsuits and regulatory pressure.
In September 2025 Anthropic agreed to pay about $3,000 per book across ~500,000 books — the first major settlement over AI training data.
China's four-agency Measures for Labeling AI-Generated Content took effect, requiring explicit and implicit labels on all AI-generated text, images and video.
The EU AI Act entered into force on August 1, 2024; prohibitions applied from February 2025 and GPAI obligations from August 2025. After the AI/Digital Omnibus was approved at the end of July 2026, high-risk obligations were pushed back to 2028.
On July 23, 2025, the Trump administration released its AI Action Plan and signed three executive orders: accelerate innovation, build AI infrastructure, lead in international diplomacy and security — and the White House says the plan identifies over 90 federal policy actions.
On March 26, 2025, a federal judge rejected OpenAI's motion to dismiss, letting The New York Times's core copyright claims proceed — with Microsoft as co-defendant.
In February 2025, at the France-India summit, the U.S. and U.K. declined to sign the inclusive-AI declaration, with Vance blasting Europe's 'excessive regulation.'
On September 29, 2024, Governor Newsom vetoed SB 1047 — America's most aggressive frontier AI safety bill — pausing a fight that had torn Silicon Valley apart.