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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.'
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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.
On July 23, 2025, the Trump administration released its AI Action Plan and signed three executive orders: accelerate innovation, build infrastructure, export the American AI stack.
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.