xAI filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent Colorado from enforcing its new AI regulation law, escalating a national debate over state-level AI governance.

OpenAI published a new Child Safety Blueprint developed with NCMEC and the Attorney General Alliance to modernize laws against AI-generated CSAM.

A federal appeals court declined to pause the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation of Anthropic, a major setback for the AI firm's legal challenge.

Japan's Digital Transformation Minister announces sweeping privacy law changes to attract AI developers and make Japan the most permissive AI development environment globally.

OpenAI released sweeping policy proposals including AI profit taxes, public wealth funds, and a four-day workweek to manage AI-driven job displacement.

The DOJ is appealing a federal judge's order that blocked the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation against Anthropic over Claude's military use guardrails.

The Trump administration's push to block state-level AI regulation through federal preemption legislation has hit a wall on Capitol Hill amid partisan divisions.

California is escalating its push to regulate AI across multiple fronts, cementing its role as the de facto U.S. proving ground for AI policy ahead of federal action.

The Justice Department is appealing a federal judge's ruling that temporarily blocked the Trump administration's ban on government use of Anthropic's AI models.

A new pro-AI political operation backed by former Trump aides is preparing to spend over $100 million in the 2026 midterms to elect candidates supportive of the administration's AI agenda.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order requiring AI safety and privacy guardrails for state contractors, positioning California as a counterweight to Trump's federal AI deregulation agenda.

President Trump has appointed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Oracle's Larry Ellison to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), co-chaired by AI czar David Sacks, while notably excluding Elon Musk and Sam Altman.

Despite signing a high-profile partnership with OpenAI months ago, the UK government has not yet trialed any of the company's AI technology in public services, raising questions about the pace and substance of the government's AI adoption strategy.

The US Department of War has raised fresh national security concerns about Anthropic in a court filing, citing the AI company's employment of a large number of foreign nationals including workers from China, arguing this increases adversarial risk under China's National Intelligence Law.

The Trump administration published its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, urging Congress to establish a single federal standard that would override the growing patchwork of state-level AI regulations, handing Big Tech the federal preemption it has long lobbied for.

The Trump administration filed a court brief arguing Anthropic's AI safety restrictions make it an unacceptable national security risk, defending the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk designation.

Senator Elissa Slotkin introduced legislation to codify into law that AI cannot autonomously decide to kill a target, cannot be used for mass surveillance of Americans, and cannot launch nuclear weapons — directly responding to the Pentagon-Anthropic conflict.

The U.S. Department of Defense has begun engineering work to replace Anthropic's Claude AI across its systems after labeling the company a supply-chain risk, while Anthropic sues the Pentagon in federal court challenging the unprecedented blacklist.

The White House and House Republicans are jointly developing a legislative package to preempt state-level AI regulations, combining AI law preemption with children's online safety provisions as the 90-day deadline from Trump's December AI executive order arrives.

Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon over its 'supply chain risk' designation gained new momentum as the ACLU and CDT filed an amicus brief, arguing the designation unlawfully punishes the company's First Amendment-protected AI safety advocacy.