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Plain-language coverage of the AI laws that are actually in force — across US states, federal, the EU, and beyond. Every story is dated and links straight to the primary government source, with a path back to the full law page. Subscribe via RSS →
SB 813 would create a California AI Standards and Safety Commission by July 1 2027
The bill directs the Business and Consumer Services Agency to establish a California Artificial Intelligence Standards and Safety Commission by July 1 2027, outlines its duties on AI safety standards, and makes its operation dependent on other pending…
Highest-significance stories
Ranked by the deterministic significance score our newsroom engine assigns each detected law change — not by traffic. Each of these also appears in the full list below.
Judge lets women suing xAI over Grok deepfakes stay anonymous
A California federal judge declined to make four women suing xAI over sexualised deepfakes generated with Grok reveal their real names, allowing the case to proceed under pseudonyms and…
xAI sues Minnesota over the first US law banning "nudification" apps
xAI has challenged Minnesota's HF 1606, the first US law to ban services that generate non-consensual sexualised images, arguing it violates the First Amendment and is overbroad. The law…
From 2 August the EU AI Act stops being a deadline and becomes an enforcer
On 2 August 2026 the EU AI Act becomes generally applicable: the Annex III high-risk regime and the Article 50 transparency duties start to apply, and Article 101 fines for general-purpose…
EU AI Act: what applies now, and what starts on 2 August 2026
The EU AI Act sorts AI into four risk tiers and phases its duties in over four years. Prohibitions have applied since 2 February 2025 and general-purpose AI rules since 2 August 2025; the…
Jurisdictions in the news
Every jurisdiction with a published story, linked to its full law page — statuses, deadlines, penalties and primary sources.
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Grouped by jurisdiction level. Newest first within each group.
- IllinoisEnactedJuly 10, 2026
Illinois SB 2909: AI may help evaluate a teacher, but it may not score one
Illinois SB 2909 was signed by Governor Pritzker on 10 July 2026 as Public Act 104-0565 and takes effect on 1 January 2027. It amends the School Code so that an evaluator may not use an…
- CaliforniaAmendedJuly 2, 2026
California SB 1106 would add agentic AI to state risk analyses and inventory reports
The bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to include agentic artificial intelligence in its risk analysis of generative AI threats to critical infrastructure, and would…
- Rhode IslandEnacted, not yet effectiveJune 22, 2026
Rhode Island H 7538: patients must be told when AI writes up their visit
Rhode Island H 7538, the AI Use Notification Act, requires healthcare providers and facilities that use artificial intelligence to document an in-person or telehealth visit to notify the…
- ColoradoIn effectJune 3, 2026
Colorado HB26-1195: a therapist may use AI, but may not let it be the therapist
Colorado HB26-1195 restricts how regulated psychotherapy professionals may use AI with clients. It requires synchronous, real-time involvement of the professional when an AI system…
- New YorkTakes effect Jan 1, 2027March 27, 2026
New York S8828: frontier AI developers must publish a safety framework and report incidents in 72 hours
New York S8828 requires large frontier AI developers to publish a Frontier AI Framework covering catastrophic-risk assessment and incident response, to publish transparency reports before…
- UtahIn effectMarch 18, 2026
Utah HB 320 reshapes the Office of AI Policy and its regulatory mitigation agreements
Utah HB 320, the Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy Amendments, modifies the duties of the state's Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy and its AI Learning Laboratory Program,…
- IllinoisIn effectIn force since January 1, 2026
Illinois HB 3773: using AI that discriminates is now a civil rights violation
From 1 January 2026, Illinois HB 3773 amends the Illinois Human Rights Act so that an employer using artificial intelligence with a discriminatory effect on a protected class violates the…
- TexasIn effectIn force since January 1, 2026
Texas TRAIGA takes effect: intent-based AI rules, enforced only by the Attorney General
Texas HB 149, the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act, was signed on 22 June 2025 and took effect on 1 January 2026. It bans a short list of intentional AI harms rather than…
- New York CityIn effectIn force since July 5, 2023
NYC Local Law 144: no automated hiring tool without a bias audit from the past year
New York City bars employers and employment agencies from using an automated employment decision tool unless it has been bias-audited within the previous year, a summary of the results is…
- United States (Federal)AI Law UpdateAugust 11, 2026
23 AI-related lawsuits now tracked in U.S. federal courts
Our court-records watch (CourtListener/RECAP) now carries 23 federal dockets naming a major AI company as plaintiff or defendant, filed between 2026-07-13 and 2026-08-06 — spanning…
- United StatesAI Law UpdateAugust 1, 2026
xAI sues Minnesota over the first US law banning "nudification" apps
xAI has challenged Minnesota's HF 1606, the first US law to ban services that generate non-consensual sexualised images, arguing it violates the First Amendment and is overbroad. The law…
- United StatesAI Law UpdateAugust 1, 2026
Judge lets women suing xAI over Grok deepfakes stay anonymous
A California federal judge declined to make four women suing xAI over sexualised deepfakes generated with Grok reveal their real names, allowing the case to proceed under pseudonyms and…
- United States (Federal)ProposedJune 25, 2026
A national database for AI flaws: what the AI Flaw Reporting and Security Enhancement Act would build
HR 9333 would have NIST run a voluntary programme for reporting and tracking AI flaws — agreeing common definitions and classification criteria, supporting disclosure standards, and…
- European UnionAI Law UpdateAugust 1, 2026
From 2 August the EU AI Act stops being a deadline and becomes an enforcer
On 2 August 2026 the EU AI Act becomes generally applicable: the Annex III high-risk regime and the Article 50 transparency duties start to apply, and Article 101 fines for general-purpose…
- European UnionIn effectIn force since August 1, 2024
EU AI Act: what applies now, and what starts on 2 August 2026
The EU AI Act sorts AI into four risk tiers and phases its duties in over four years. Prohibitions have applied since 2 February 2025 and general-purpose AI rules since 2 August 2025; the…
- AI LawAI Law UpdateAugust 9, 2026
34 jurisdictions now regulate deepfakes and synthetic media
How many jurisdictions restrict deepfakes and synthetic media, including in political advertising? 34 jurisdictions have at least one instrument on the books; 18 of 82 are already enacted.
- AI LawAI Law UpdateAugust 8, 2026
40 jurisdictions now regulate AI in health care and coverage decisions
Where is clinical or coverage-decision AI already regulated? 40 jurisdictions have at least one instrument on the books; 18 of 137 are already enacted.
- GlobalAI Law UpdateAugust 1, 2026
What regulators have actually collected from Big Tech over AI
AI-related fines and settlements against major technology companies have passed $3.5 billion since 2022, according to a Surfshark Research analysis published on 22 June 2026 — dominated by…
- United KingdomAI Law UpdateAugust 1, 2026
The UK regulator says an AI sandbox with real data needs an Act of Parliament
The ICO has concluded that a data protection sandbox letting firms test AI on live personal data is feasible but cannot be created by the regulator alone: it would need primary…
