AI policy news: laws, governments and regulation
What governments and lawmakers are saying and doing about AI, from the White House to state capitals and the United Nations, newest first.
UK regulator proposes AI assistants like ChatGPT on Google's choice screens, with a prompt every year
Android and Chrome users in the UK would be asked every year which search service they want, and an AI assistant that passes the CMA's tests could be the answer.
The UN's AI panel spent its first thematic brief on 1,200 agents inside OpenAI's own tests
Yoshua Bengio co-chairs the panel, and he says the three conditions researchers warned about all came together this summer in a real system.
Trump is forming an AI Force, but he calls the push to slow AI a hoax
He didn't say what the AI Force would do, and the next morning he was running a public vote on a new name for AI.
Spanberger wants local approval for data centers over 25 megawatts, and created an AI task force
The order she signed does the parts she can do alone, and the 25-megawatt rule that would change how data centers get built waits on the 2027 General Assembly.
Newsom gave experts two months to recommend an AI kill switch and auditors inside frontier labs
The embedded evaluators Dario Amodei offered to volunteer for six days earlier are now on the list of things California is working out how to require.
King Charles hosted the AI labs in Scotland and asked for control before it's too late
The head of state who stays out of politics put the AI labs in one Scottish room and asked them for a means of control.
Democrats are now more worried about AI than Republicans, and it's partly because Republicans relaxed
Pew has asked the same question since 2021, and the party lines have finally crossed: Republican concern is falling while everyone else's climbs.
Von der Leyen backs slowing self-recursive AI and will invite the frontier labs in
The European Commission's president repeated the AI industry's own phrase for slowing down, then offered the labs a meeting rather than a new law.
The AI standards body Hassabis proposes could coordinate a slowdown among the frontier labs
Google DeepMind launched an essay site the same day, and the proposal arrived on it under a note saying it isn't Google's official view.
The Gates Foundation will spend $1 billion on AI in clinics, classrooms and small farms.
Bill Gates gives the decision a clock: the next 12 to 18 months settle who this technology gets built for.
Trump says the only guardrail AI needs is a strong president, and mocks Dario Amodei
He told reporters in Ireland that whoever wins AI wins, then called the fear of it a hoax seven times in one Monday.
The outside evaluators the labs promised to embed have had a standard ready since December 2025.
The AI Evaluator Forum welcomed the labs' new promises and pointed at five conditions it published before any of them were made.
Parliament's human rights committee wants a law banning AI that could escape human control.
Ten evidence sessions, witnesses from Meta, Microsoft, Google and Ofcom, and the recommendation that matters is number 200.
A day after Amodei asked Washington to keep its AI lead over China, Xi offered BRICS an open source AI community.
China's five proposals for the bloc open with AI, and the one thing Xi asks the rest of the world for is a framework everybody writes together.