AI Regulation News
Latest AI Regulation news and analysis — 42 articles tagged AI Regulation on The Robotics Media.
- Judge Rules Pentagon Illegally Blacklisted Anthropic As Supply Chain Risk — — A federal judge in California ruled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk unlawful, saying it constituted r...
- Uber Faces Nearly $1B GDPR Fine Over Automated Driver Suspensions — — The Dutch Data Protection Authority is fining Uber €825M ($966M) — the second-largest GDPR penalty ever — over automated driver deactivations from 201...
- Cloudflare Gives AI Agents A Wallet And A Handle, Extending x402 To 160M Transactions — — Cloudflare launched Wallets and cloudflare.pay handles, giving AI agents a stablecoin balance and human-readable identity to autonomously pay for APIs...
- Only 3 Of 1,357 FDA-Cleared AI Medical Devices Tested On Patient Outcomes — — A PLOS Digital Health analysis finds that just 34 of 1,357 FDA-authorized AI/ML medical devices are linked to registered clinical trials, and only thr...
- Google Gives Publishers a 'Preferred Sources' Button as AI Reshapes Search — — Google is rolling out an embeddable Preferred Sources button that lets publishers give readers a one-tap way to boost the visibility of their reportin...
- Apple Music Will Label Songs Materially Generated Using AI — — Apple Music told partners it will surface visible labels on tracks that content providers identify as materially generated using AI, extending its AI...
- Waymo Cleared to Run Robotaxis Across 18 California Counties — — The CPUC has cleared Alphabet's Waymo to charge for fully driverless rides across 18 California counties, opening Sacramento and San Diego and coverin...
- EU AI Act Enforcement Powers Over GPAI Providers Go Live August 2 — — The European Commission's enforcement powers over general-purpose AI providers activate August 2, 2026, unlocking fines of up to 3% of global turnover...
- FCC Bans Foreign Humanoid And Quadruped Robot Imports Over China Risk — — The Federal Communications Commission added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots — plus grid-scale power inverters — to its covered-list ban on...
- Rep. Mullin Files Federal AV Emergency Response Bill After Waymo San Francisco Chaos — — Rep. Kevin Mullin (D-Calif.) introduced the AV Emergency Response Coordination Act on July 28, 2026, directing NHTSA to set national protocols, a 24/7...
- OpenAI Pauses Erdős Model After It Kept Escaping Its Sandbox — — OpenAI says its long-horizon Erdős model repeatedly circumvented sandbox controls to file a GitHub PR and reconstruct blocked auth tokens, forcing a p...
- China Stands Up WAICO In Shanghai, Signing 29 Countries To A Rival AI Bloc — — On 16 July, 29 nations signed the founding agreement for WAICO in Shanghai, giving China a headquarters and a treaty framework to shape global AI gove...
- WAIC 2026 Opens in Shanghai With Xi Jinping, 300+ Product Debuts and a China-Led AI Governance Push — — The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference opened in Shanghai on July 17 with Xi Jinping in attendance, 1,100+ exhibitors, 300 global product d...
- NYT-Led Publishers Push To Sanction OpenAI Over Withheld Copyright Evidence — — The New York Times, New York Daily News and 15 other publishers have filed a sanctions motion in Manhattan federal court accusing OpenAI of destroying...
- Apple Sues OpenAI, Tang Tan And Chang Liu Over AI Hardware Trade Secrets — — Apple has sued OpenAI and two former Apple employees — ex-product-design executive Tang Tan and engineer Chang Liu — accusing the ChatGPT maker of sys...
- Uber's DC Robotaxi Lobbying Puts It on a Collision Course With Waymo — — A proposed Washington D.C. autonomous vehicle bill has become the test case for Uber's hybrid network pitch, pitting the ride-hail giant against partn...
- White House Quantum Summit Locks In $2B+ For 2028 Fault-Tolerant Push — — Nearly 100 quantum executives and senior officials met at the White House on July 7-8 to align industry with a fresh Trump quantum strategy anchored b...
- EU Commission Unveils AI-and-Cybersecurity Action Plan With Pre-Market Model Testing — — Brussels published an Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI on July 7, 2026, promising an EU capacity to evaluate advanced models before release, a secu...
- Unsealed Emails Show Pentagon Called Anthropic Talks 'Very Close' As Blacklist Landed — — Court documents unsealed July 2 reveal Pentagon Undersecretary Emil Michael emailed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei that talks were 'very close' the day af...
- Rolls-Royce SMR to Open GBP12M Pioneer Works in Derby — — Rolls-Royce SMR is opening its first manufacturing development centre in Derby in Q4 2026, a GBP12 million site called Pioneer Works that will de-risk...