RegulationMontana allows biotech companies to sell experimental drugs directly to consumersThis week Montana became the first U.S.3 min read
RegulationState-by-state patchwork leaves voters with uneven protection from AI deepfakes ahead of electionsA mosaic of state laws means Americans will face different levels of protection against AI-generated election deepfakes in the run-up to Election Day.2 min read
RegulationNew Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay $567M and Change Platforms to Protect MinorsA Santa Fe judge found that Meta violated New Mexico public-interest law and ordered the company to pay $567 million and implement specific child-protection measures over a five-year injunction.3 min read
RegulationTexas pauses new data center approvals as ERCOT power queue balloonsTexas has temporarily frozen approvals for new data centers and ordered audits of projects seeking to connect to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid, after ERCOT's interconnection queue reached about 474 gigawatts of proposed new demand.2 min read
RegulationDenmark requires oral defenses to detect AI-written school essaysThe Danish government is introducing immediate measures to curb the use of artificial intelligence in high school assignments: students will now have to orally defend written essays completed at home, with schools encouraged to shift written work to supervised, in-school settings.2 min read
RegulationWhite House Keeps Frontier AI Security Reviews Closed to PublicThe White House has been conducting a confidential framework with OpenAI and Anthropic to assess cybersecurity risks from frontier AI models, requiring top models to be submitted 30 days before release.3 min read
RegulationFederal Reserve Regional Chief Warns AI Investments Pose Systemic RisksJeff Schmid, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, said recent AI investment volumes and financial links among firms have grown large enough to warrant macroprudential attention.3 min read
RegulationChina launches cross-border tax probes into wealthy citizens' overseas assetsChina has begun a broad international tax enforcement campaign targeting wealthy citizens' overseas assets and investments, with audits reaching back to around 2000 and new rules tightening offshore wealth structures.3 min read
RegulationU.S. Appeals Court: AI Agent Acting for a User Is the User, Not an Unauthorized IntruderA three-judge panel of the U.S.3 min read
RegulationFrontier AI access narrows as open-weight models multiplyGovernments and companies are increasingly restricting access to the most advanced AI models while an expanding set of open-weight models challenges the dominance of closed ‘‘frontier’’ systems.6 min read
RegulationOpenAI to Pay $3.2 Million to Settle DOJ Allegations over Preferential Hiring of Visa HoldersOpenAI agreed to a $3.2 million settlement with the U.S.3 min read
RegulationEU Enforcement Powers for AI Take Effect, Allowing Market Bans and Fines for Frontier ModelsOn August 2, the enforcement provisions of the EU AI Act came into force, giving the European Commission authority to intervene pre-market on high‑risk and general‑purpose AI models.2 min read
