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US President Donald Trump has accused Congress of attempting to regulate the artificial intelligence sector out of existence, as lawmakers grapple with how to oversee rapid technological advancement without stifling innovation.
Anthropic has appointed Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, a seasoned policy veteran with Democratic and bipartisan credentials, as its first chief global affairs officer to manage relationships with governments globally and navigate mounting regulatory pressures.
Britain's AI Minister signals readiness to introduce formal regulation of advanced artificial intelligence systems should the current voluntary testing framework prove insufficient for protecting the public.
The European Union begins enforcing its landmark AI Act on August 2, requiring AI firms to label generated content and establishing monitoring mechanisms to combat deepfakes, cyberattacks and exploitation.
A British Labour MP is pursuing legal action against Elon Musk's xAI, demanding the company implement permanent technical safeguards to prevent its Grok chatbot from creating non-consensual sexualised images of her, in what could set major precedent for AI regulation.
A US federal judge has granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors who claimed the AI company improperly used their books to train its Claude chatbot, marking the largest copyright recovery in US history.
A coalition of major US newspapers, led by the New York Times, has asked a federal court to impose sanctions on OpenAI, accusing the AI company of lying about its technical capabilities to search for copyrighted content in its systems.