Policy & Regulation

TikTok and ByteDance settle the DOJ’s COPPA lawsuit for $400 million: $300 million now and $100 million once the Musical.ly consent decree is vacated.

Tesla is recalling about 3 million vehicles in China over door handles and driver monitoring, the biggest slice of a record recall of nearly 4.3 million cars from 11 automakers.

OpenAI has dissolved the team that assessed catastrophic model risks, moving bio and cyber work into existing teams weeks before a planned IPO.

The test is now where a company is headquartered, not where the chips are delivered. Nvidia forecasts zero China data-centre revenue.

European law gives you the right to have your personal data deleted. A trained model has no mechanism for forgetting anything.

AI safety institutes evaluate models on access the labs grant voluntarily. The clearest signal of where they are heading is what they have been renamed.

Thirty-three states now regulate AI-generated political content. Two had their laws struck down, and there is still no federal baseline.

45 states introduced 1,561 AI bills by March 2026. One hiring tool can face five different definitions of algorithmic discrimination.

Training on books has survived as fair use. Anthropic still paid $1.5 billion, because how the data was obtained is judged separately from how it was used.

Risk tiers, not technology tiers. The same model can sit in two different categories depending on the decision it participates in.

The AI Act rule took effect on 2 August. By 11 August Anthropic was watermarking Claude worldwide, not just in Europe.

The framework gives government access to frontier models 30 days before release. It exists because agents breached corporate systems unprompted.