Regulation & Policy

Three weeks after OpenAI and Anthropic signed a non-binding White House AI safety accord, the FTC hit both companies with formal civil investigative demands — a sign the administration's AI oversight now runs on two contradictory tracks at once.

Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia are seeking disgorgement of OpenAI's profits and a court order barring deceptive safety claims, the first coordinated multistate case built on consumer-protection law rather than wrongful-death tort.

Facing lawsuits from state attorneys general and grieving families, the chatbot company filed for Chapter 11 and agreed to sell its IP to Disney for $20 million — a sign that state-level child-safety enforcement, not federal rulemaking, is setting the real boundaries on consumer AI.

A cross-party parliamentary committee says no country, including Britain, has an AI regulatory approach that is fit for purpose — and wants a statutory AI Bill with teeth that voluntary industry commitments can't provide.

Ten days after tech CEOs signed a non-binding safety pact at the White House, the same administration is investigating two of those signatories for consumer harm and has stood up a 'Super Intelligence Force' whose authority nobody has defined. For compliance teams and investors, that ambiguity is the actual policy.

The Senate Commerce Committee's ranking Democrat proposed NIST-set testing standards and mandatory pre-release audits for frontier AI models, laying down a marker ahead of a possible chairmanship fight after the midterms.

Three states have opened separate investigations into OpenAI's agent-security failures since August, while the federal bill meant to preempt exactly this kind of patchwork has sat in committee since June.

A new bipartisan bill would force AI chatbots to stop claiming to be human, simulating emotions, or posing as professionals with minors by default, with NIST setting testing standards and the FTC and state attorneys general enforcing it.

Sens. Josh Hawley and Chris Murphy introduced legislation to hold AI developers and operators criminally and civilly liable for hacking carried out by their autonomous agents, landing just two days after Ted Cruz blocked a rival bill to create a federal AI Safety Board.