AI Briefing#regulation
The latest AI and developer news about #regulation, with the original source and a short summary.
The latest AI and developer news about #regulation, with the original source and a short summary.
Data center construction in California is stalling due to local community opposition and regulations.
CEO Sam Altman has invested large sums in companies that do business with OpenAI, raising conflict-of-interest concerns that have drawn a U.S. congressional investigation.
US federal regulators have ordered grid operators to speed up connections to meet the surging power demand from AI data centers.
Attorneys general from several US states have launched an investigation into OpenAI.
Cases of AI nudify app misuse among UK elementary school students have surged, raising questions about platforms' responsibility to manage such tools.
President Trump signed a scaled-back AI executive order centered on voluntary security reviews before the release of powerful AI models.
Florida has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman over ChatGPT's safety issues and social harms.
Italy's Lombardy region is imposing an additional tax of up to 200% on data centers built on green spaces and farmland to curb their unchecked expansion.
The FTC fined Cox Media Group and others $1 million for falsely claiming their ads listened through device microphones.
California Governor Newsom announced the first executive order in the US responding to labor market changes caused by AI.
The Trump administration is reviewing AI safety regulations, prompted by Anthropic's latest AI model.
Republican state attorneys general have requested that the SEC investigate Sam Altman's business dealings.
As electricity demand surges due to the AI boom, utility companies' attempts to raise rates have become a political flashpoint in six US states.
The UK Parliament is reviewing an amendment that would allow data centres and AI systems to be shut down in an AI emergency.
Maryland has filed a complaint with FERC over bearing $2 billion in grid upgrade costs meant to address data center demand from other states.
Maryland consumers are at risk of being charged $2 billion for grid upgrades needed to meet AI data center demand.
Low-frequency noise and generator noise from AI data centers are threatening the health of local residents and emerging as a regulatory risk.
A man has filed a lawsuit claiming that the design of Google's Gemini AI caused psychological dependence and withdrawal symptoms.
The White House is considering a government pre-screening system before AI models are released to the public.
Starting July 1, California will implement a system that directly notifies manufacturers when autonomous vehicles commit violations.
Meta's acquisition of an AI startup has been blocked, increasing uncertainty around cross-border tech deals involving China.
China blocked Meta's roughly $2 billion acquisition of Manus through a security review.
China blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus.
It has emerged that the Trump administration used an AI tool called SweetREX to push forward not only the deletion of regulations but also the drafting of legislation.