Tag: regulation
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Trump’s New AI Force Doesn’t Have a Job Description Yet
Donald Trump said this weekend that he’s standing up something called the AI Force. He compared it to the Space Force he created back in his first term. There’s also going to be an AI czar, and according to his own post on Truth Social, only high IQ individuals need apply. Nobody’s said yet what…
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Brussels Is About to Put ChatGPT on Its Watch List
ChatGPT is about to get a new label in Europe, the kind of label that means more paperwork, not more praise. Sources briefed on the matter say the European Commission plans to designate OpenAI’s ChatGPT and the gaming platform Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms under the EU’s Digital Services Act, possibly as soon as…
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Elon Musk’s xAI Just Sued Minnesota Over A New Law
Minnesota passed a law this year banning nudification apps, the kind that use AI to strip clothes off photos of real people without consent. It is set to take effect on August 1st. xAI just sued to stop it. The company argues the law is written so broadly that it violates the First Amendment, calling…
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AI Labs Just Spent Record Money on Lobbying
Anthropic and OpenAI each broke their own federal lobbying spending records in Q2 2026, and the numbers are worth paying attention to. Anthropic: $1.97 million for the quarter. That is a 26 percent jump from Q1. OpenAI: $1.2 million, up 18 percent quarter-over-quarter. Combined, the two companies spent $3.17 million from April through June alone.…
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Brussels Just Forced Google’s Hand on Android
The European Commission just ordered Google to do something the company has been avoiding for a decade: open Android to competing AI assistants. This is not a suggestion. These are binding decisions. Google must share its search data with rival AI developers and let them run on two billion Android phones without barriers. What makes…
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Sam Altman Just Offered the Government a Piece of OpenAI. Here Is Why.
Sam Altman walked into a room with the Trump administration and proposed something unusual: give the U.S. government a 5 percent stake in OpenAI. That stake would be worth roughly $42.6 billion at the company’s $852 billion valuation. Why would he do that? Because the government is not a customer anymore. It is a regulator,…
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The Treasury Just Called AI a Systemic Risk. Most People Missed It.
A draft report from Treasury Department analysts just hit the desk of the people who run the financial system. The message was clear: the AI market shares dangerous structural parallels with the dotcom bubble. Not just similarity. The report says AI firms are more deeply entrenched in the U.S. economy than their dotcom predecessors. A…
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Illinois Just Made AI Safety a State Law
Governor JB Pritzker signed Illinois’s AI Safety Measures Act into law this week. It’s the first time a state has codified AI risk management into actual statute. What does it do? It requires AI systems used by state agencies to have risk assessments, transparency requirements, and accountability measures. It’s not a blanket ban. It’s not…
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The Government Just Reviewed AI Before It Ships
The White House announced a voluntary framework where OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic submit their most powerful models to the federal government for up to 30 days of testing before public release. This is not what regulation looks like. This is what pre-regulation looks like. The government gets first look at frontier capability before it’s in…
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The World Just Started Talking About AI Governance
The UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance is happening right now in Geneva. Member states are sitting down to figure out what AI governance actually means at the international level. This is awkward territory for everyone. The countries with AI leadership don’t want rules that slow them down. The countries without access don’t want to…