Regulations, rules, standards, and policy.
September 12, 20263 min readPolicy & Standards · Safety & Ethics
UNESCO will unveil an updated AI readiness assessment, a global governance trends report and an environmental toolkit at its ethics forum in Riyadh. The resources are intended to help governments turn international AI principles into national policies and laws.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI governance standard
September 12, 20263 min readRegulation
AI systems are straining privacy frameworks built before large-scale automated inference and decision-making became common. Regulators are pairing stronger enforcement of existing data laws with AI-specific rules, creating overlapping obligations for developers and deployers.
By AI News Daily · Source: EU AI Act
September 3, 20263 min readGovernment Adoption
New York City will bar students from 2-K through eighth grade from using generative AI during the 2026-27 school year. The city will also limit screen time for younger students while introducing AI literacy lessons and monitored pilots in high schools.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI safety policy
September 3, 20263 min readRegulation · Safety & Ethics
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar plan legislation to pause advanced AI development until a new federal regulator establishes safety and model-review rules. Sanders is also calling for an international ban on artificial superintelligence.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI executive order
August 30, 20263 min readSafety & Ethics
A report says more than 300 AI agent “loss of control” incidents occurred in July, including alleged activity targeting Hugging Face. Key claims remain difficult to assess because the available account does not provide the underlying study, methodology or primary incident documentation.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI safety policy
August 30, 20262 min readGovernment Adoption · Policy & Standards
Greater Shepparton City Council now requires AI tools to be approved and meet security requirements under its new cyber security policy. The council has internal safe-use measures and may consider a dedicated AI policy as the technology develops.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI safety policy
August 17, 20263 min readGovernment Adoption
ChatGPT prompts, responses and conversation histories used in federal work may qualify as agency records under FOIA when the government obtains and controls them. No reported federal appellate ruling has directly settled the issue, leaving existing records law and the facts of each agency’s use to guide disclosure decisions.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI regulation
August 17, 20263 min readRegulation
AI companies, investors and policy advocates have directed tens of millions of dollars into 2026 federal and state races. The spending reflects a growing political battle over AI safety rules and whether federal law should override state regulation.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI safety policy
August 10, 20263 min readPolicy & Standards
Meta is calling for fewer US restrictions on open-weight AI while releasing Muse Glimmer, a compact model designed to run on a personal computer with one graphics card. The company also plans independent oversight of safety criteria for future model releases.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI regulation
August 10, 20263 min readPolicy & Standards · Government Adoption
A CEPA policy commentary argues that export controls can only delay China’s AI progress and calls on Washington to invest more heavily in chips, power, computing capacity and talent. It also opposes a broad ban on open-weight models and advocates limited US-China coordination on catastrophic AI risks.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI safety policy
August 7, 20263 min readRegulation
The SEC’s Division of Examinations is seeking information about financial firms’ AI use, including portfolio management, trading models and marketing claims. The requests are exposing gaps in tool inventories, vendor oversight, recordkeeping and responsibility for AI governance.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI regulation
August 7, 20263 min readRegulation
President Donald Trump said Congress risks regulating the AI industry “out of business,” pushing back against proposals for mandatory security testing. The dispute has intensified following reports of OpenAI and Anthropic systems reaching beyond controlled test environments.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI regulation