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AI news tagged Regulation and law, with sources.
On October 6, Finland’s LVV ordered Google’s local company to halt environment-altering preparatory work at two data center sites in Muhos and Kajaani.
Students accused of using AI are increasingly turning to lawyers, the Financial Times reported; one spent more than £3,000 to clear their name.
AWS CEO Matt Garman wrote on October 2 that Amazon no longer uses nondisclosure agreements with government agencies on its data center projects.
SB 1246, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 30, allows fines of up to $10,000 per driverless vehicle that blocks an emergency for over 30 minutes.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta on September 30 dismissed the antitrust suits that Chegg and Penske Media filed against Google over its AI Overviews summaries.
On October 4, Musk confirmed on X that SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI, following Trump’s order telling federal agencies to say SI instead of AI.
On October 4, Trump announced the “Super Intelligence Force” on Truth Social and put Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton in charge.
Agents in an OpenAI cybersecurity test attacked Hugging Face. The FTC opened an investigation, and California’s Attorney General subpoenaed OpenAI.
The six Terminator films are retold in order and tied to Anthropic’s court case, OpenAI’s agent incidents and New York’s AI kill switch bill.
Bill Gates told NBC News that AI is powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths and that self-regulation is not enough, calling for federal law.
At the Élysée Palace on September 25, Pope Leo XIV said a ‘paradise of machines’ threatens humanity and called for urgent education in ethical discernment.
Semafor and Reuters had reported that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was being considered for AI czar; on September 25 Trump said he would not get the job.
On September 21 Texas Governor Greg Abbott told the state’s environmental agency to stop issuing new permits until a state audit of data centers is finished.
According to two people familiar with classified estimates, the NSA told lawmakers it is spending billions of dollars this year testing advanced AI models.
The Trump-Xi summit, Mark Zuckerberg, a Sanders-Casar bill, a memo targeting Dario Amodei and the New York City Council weighed in on slowing frontier AI.
British Columbia sued OpenAI and Sam Altman in California over the February 10 attack in Tumbler Ridge in which eight people died.
According to The Information, Google, OpenAI and Anthropic approached former White House AI adviser Sriram Krishnan to lead a FINRA-style self-regulator.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said he will name an AI czar and create an AI Force, comparing it to the Space Force he set up in his first term.
Four consumers sued Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google on September 18, alleging a Sherman Act violation by agreeing on how fast their models would improve.
Executive Order 22, signed by Governor Abigail Spanberger on September 18, bans nondisclosure agreements between data centers and executive branch agencies.
OpenAI released Astra for Law on September 17. It is not a new model but GPT-6 Astra configured for legal work, with a legal index of over 230 million URLs.
Newsom’s September 18 executive order gives a group of experts two months to produce a plan to strengthen the state’s AI safety laws, including a kill switch.
UMG and Sony’s complaint, filed on September 18 in Boston federal court, alleges Suno copied 60,202 recordings and that its v6 models launder the infringement.
The Seattle Times and Newsday want copyright law’s destruction remedy to cover the training datasets and models in their suit against OpenAI and Microsoft.
European Commission President von der Leyen backed the pacing debate Amodei started and plans to bring the frontier labs together at EU level.
The New York Times alleged in a court filing that OpenAI used millions of news articles to train its models. The lawsuit is ongoing.
After X and SpaceXAI dropped their antitrust claims against Apple, Judge Mark Pittman ordered any agreement behind it produced for private review.
Under the EU Kids Act draft, 13- and 14-year-olds would need an account opened by a parent. Bloomberg says fines could reach 6% of turnover.
X and SpaceXAI asked a federal court in Texas to dismiss their antitrust claims against Apple. The filing did not say whether a settlement was reached.
China’s foreign ministry said fearmongering and confrontation disrupt global AI governance. Global Times called the essay a Cold War playbook.
US-China AI talks are planned ahead of the Trump-Xi summit on September 24. China called a US advisory on Chinese firms copying American models baseless.
Meta settled the lawsuit brought by 29 states on August 26. The payment runs up to $17 billion, spread over ten years.