A U.S. federal judge gave final approval to Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement resolving a class action copyright lawsuit brought by authors and publishers.
YouTube revised its YouTube Partner Program policies to explicitly prohibit monetization of certain AI-generated content.
NIST issued a public request for nominations to serve on its National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee and six other federal advisory committees.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration proposed rules requiring landlords and realtors to disclose AI-generated or AI-edited images in rental listings.
VA officials told Congress AI tools are used to support—not replace—human disability claims reviewers.
The Department of Energy estimates its internal enterprise data platform Quanta and generative AI suite Joulix will generate $74 million in annual operational savings.
The EU’s executive arm ordered Google to allow rival AI assistants and search engines greater access to Android and Google Search data to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
New York Governor Kathy Hochul says her administration is using AI to review every regulation, rule, and policy in the state.
OpenAI calls for a governance model where state laws inform federal AI safety policy.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed creating an independent AI standards body modeled after FINRA to review frontier models before release.
A class action lawsuit filed by major publishers accuses Google of using copyrighted works to train its Gemini AI models without permission.
New York became the first U.S. state to halt approvals for large data centers via an executive order signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
More than 200 economists, AI researchers, and Nobel laureates signed a statement warning that transformative AI could cause large-scale job displacement within a decade.
AI’s labor-market effects will arrive gradually through a multi-decade adaptation phase rather than abruptly, according to a Princeton AI researcher’s ICML 2026 keynote.
The Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced a proposal to add AI-related questions to the American Time Use Survey (ATUS).
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) announced a FY 2026 discretionary grant pilot program (IGNITE) focused on tribal workforce development.
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is requesting public comments on proposed 2027 updates to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
Frontier AI labs are likely to escape the commodity trap by moving up the stack into enterprise software-like layers, not by selling undifferentiated model inference.
The New York Times and The Daily News allege OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs.
OpenAI’s latest model, Sol, was released to the public without a transparent government evaluation process.
OpenAI published principles guiding its partnerships with government and national security entities.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe stated the agency must adopt AI with ‘smart risks’ and course correction, rejecting a risk-free approach to emerging technology.
The U.S. Commerce Department will lift export controls on Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models, ending a months-long standoff.
The Department of Defense’s GenAI.mil platform has reached 1.7 million users and will expand to higher classification levels.
Midjourney is pushing to compel Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose all AI usage documentation, not just consumer-facing outputs, in a copyright infringement case.
NIST opened ManipulationNet, a global online competition to benchmark robot manipulation skills.
Researcher Candice Odgers critiques Jonathan Haidt’s claims that social media harms teen mental health, citing longitudinal data.
OpenAI discussed a 5 percent government ownership stake with the Trump administration as a way to address regulatory tensions.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly proposed donating 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund.
Public opposition to data centers has delayed or blocked at least 75 US projects worth $130 billion in Q1 2026, per Data Center Watch analysis.