Regulation & Policy

Rep. Shontel Brown's bill to ban deceptive AI in elections and require labels on synthetic campaign content landed in the House eleven days before voting ends, after researchers found most AI-made political ads this cycle carry no disclosure at all.

A waiver petition from Club for Growth asks regulators to suspend consent rules for AI-voiced political calls to cell phones, and the commission fast-tracked a decision timed to land before Election Day.

The music publisher's twin copyright suits lean on leaked scraping code and the Atlantic's AI-output search tool, but they also land in a market where rivals have already taken Suno's licensing money instead of its lawsuits.

A new consumer-protection rule would fine companies up to $3,500 per violation for letting AI customer-service bots trap people in unhelpful loops.

A Department of Homeland Security exclusion order bars DeepSeek and any product built on its models from civilian federal IT systems — and leans on a 2018 supply-chain law instead of export controls, a choice that shifts compliance risk onto every vendor downstream of the model.

A pilot that screened three million posts ahead of May's local elections shows Britain can spot deepfakes fast, but its own watchdog says 1980s-era election law leaves it almost no power to act on what it finds, let alone touch the algorithms spreading them.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has granted autonomous trucking operators a five-year exemption from roadside warning-triangle rules, reversing a 2024 denial and clearing one of the industry's last big regulatory obstacles — over the objections of driver and safety groups.

A provision tucked into Massachusetts's economic development bill would force the largest AI developers to fund outside testing for catastrophic risk three times a year — splitting Anthropic from OpenAI and Google, and inviting a federal preemption challenge.

Pennsylvania's Senate just sent an AI-ad-disclosure bill to the governor's desk 163-40, joining two California laws already on the books. It's a narrower lane than federal AI safety fights — and it's the one actually producing law.