Browsing: Regulation

Meta has revised its pending Commercial Terms, which take effect October 30, 2026, to remove a sentence stating that the company could use content crawled from websites tied to business accounts to train Meta Company Products. The revised text was in place on Meta’s legal website by October 17, 2026, after a day of public…

The UK government confirmed on October 6, 2026 that it will accept all 44 recommendations of the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare and set out how they will be delivered across the UK. Alongside the response, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) opened the call for applications for the…

President Donald Trump on October 4, 2026, announced the formation of the Super Intelligence Force in a post on his Truth Social account, naming four administration officials to lead a body he said will coordinate the federal government’s effort to ensure America continues to lead the world in super intelligence.

Four consumers filed a class-action complaint in federal court in San Francisco on September 18, 2026, accusing Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google of agreeing among themselves to slow the pace at which their competing frontier AI products improve, in violation of federal antitrust law.

President Donald Trump on September 19, 2026, used his Truth Social account to propose renaming artificial intelligence and, in a second post later that day, to announce that he is forming an AI Force and will name an AI czar in the near future.

The U.S. House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act on September 16, 2026, voting 417 to 3 to require state utility regulators to consider standards that make large data center customers pay the full cost of the grid upgrades built to serve them.

Matt Clifford is stepping down as founding chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, the UK government’s high-risk research funding body, five days after taking a full-time government-affairs job at Anthropic. Clifford announced his decision on September 7, 2026, and ARIA confirmed that he will remain in post on an interim basis, in agreement…

Microsoft moved for summary judgment on September 4, 2026 in the consolidated copyright litigation brought by book authors and news publishers over the training of large language models, telling a federal court in Manhattan that an expert’s review of 8.2 million Copilot conversations found only 24 responses containing at least 30 words matching the authors’…

The Seattle Times Co. and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on September 4, 2026, filing a federal copyright and trademark complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that accuses the companies of using the newspapers’ published work to train and operate AI products without permission or payment. The Seattle…