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India hosted the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi from 16 to 21 February 2026, the first edition of the global AI summit series held in the Global South. A declaration was endorsed by 92 countries and organisations, and 13 model providers signed frontier AI commitments.
In 2025 Disney and Universal, followed by Warner Bros. Discovery, sued the AI image service Midjourney for copyright infringement; the three cases were later consolidated.
On 3 June 2025 Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that the U.S. AI Safety Institute, housed in NIST, would become the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, a pro-innovation body focused on voluntary standards, industry testing and unclassified national-security evaluations.
On 14 February 2025, the UK minister for science, innovation and technology announced at the Munich Security Conference that the AI Safety Institute would become the AI Security Institute, focusing on security-related risks and adding a criminal misuse team.
In February 2025 a Delaware federal judge held that Ross Intelligence's use of Westlaw headnotes to train its legal AI tool infringed Thomson Reuters' copyright, and rejected its fair use defence — described as the first substantive AI copyright ruling.
France and India co-hosted the Paris AI Action Summit on 10–11 February 2025, where 60 countries and international organisations signed a statement on inclusive, sustainable AI. The United States and the United Kingdom did not sign.
On 20 January 2025, Executive Order 14148 revoked Executive Order 14110 of 30 October 2023, and a separate order signed on 23 January 2025 replaced its policy direction with a push for American AI dominance and a 180-day action plan.
On 28 October 2024 the Open Source Initiative released version 1.0 of its Open Source AI Definition, a community-designed standard for what may be called open source AI.
In August 2024 a US judge let illustrators suing Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt and Runway AI pursue some copyright and trademark claims, while leaving the core training-data question undecided.
In June 2024 the RIAA announced that major record companies had sued Suno and Udio, two AI music generation services, alleging that building them required copying decades of copyrighted sound recordings.
On 21 May 2024, ten countries and the European Union signed the Seoul Declaration at the AI Seoul Summit, one of three outcome documents that tied government statements to the Frontier AI Safety Commitments and the Hiroshima Process International Code of Conduct.
On 27 December 2023 The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in Manhattan federal court, saying millions of its articles were used without permission to build AI products including ChatGPT — the first such suit by a major US media organisation.
Eleven US authors and a later class action sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies copied books without permission to train AI chatbots, part of a wider wave of copyright litigation.
A beta document published by OpenAI in December 2023 that sets out processes to track, evaluate, forecast and protect against catastrophic risks from powerful models, rating models low to critical and barring deployment above medium.
On 1–2 November 2023 the UK hosted the first global AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, where 28 countries including the US, China and the EU agreed the Bletchley Declaration on the risks of frontier AI.
On 30 October 2023, President Biden signed Executive Order 14110, a federal directive on AI safety, security and trustworthy use. It set principles and assigned more than 100 actions across government.
An industry body formed on 26 July 2023 by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI to work on the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models, defined as large-scale models that exceed the capabilities of the most advanced existing models.
On 21 July 2023 President Biden convened seven leading AI companies at the White House and secured voluntary commitments covering eight measures, from watermarking AI-generated audio and video to independent safety testing before public release.
On 30 May 2023 the Center for AI Safety published a one-sentence statement arguing that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority, and leading researchers and lab executives signed it.
On 16 May 2023 Sam Altman testified before a US Senate Judiciary subcommittee in his first appearance before Congress, asking lawmakers to regulate powerful AI models through licensing and testing.
On 22 March 2023 the Future of Life Institute published an open letter asking all AI labs to pause for at least six months the training of systems more powerful than GPT-4, and proposing governance measures for advanced AI.
