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In a revised S-1/A, Anthropic added risk factors on recursive self-improvement, saying internal expectations suggest it may soon meet its policy threshold for dramatically accelerated AI-driven progress, while no current model has been designated as exceeding it.
On 29 June 2026 the Council of the EU gave final approval to a regulation streamlining the bloc's AI rules, carried in the Omnibus VII package; the amendments entered into force on 27 July 2026.
In early 2026 the Pentagon and the White House pressed Anthropic to drop its model safeguards. After the company refused, officials labeled it a supply chain risk, and a federal judge blocked that move as unlawful retaliation.
On 24 February 2026 Anthropic published version 3.0 of its Responsible Scaling Policy, a comprehensive rewrite that separates the company's own commitments from an industry-wide map linking model capabilities to mitigations.
On 22 January 2026 Anthropic published a new constitution for Claude. It explains the reasoning behind desired behaviour, ranks Claude's priorities, and is released under a CC0 1.0 licence.
On 19 November 2025 the European Commission proposed a digital omnibus on AI that would tie high-risk AI obligations to the availability of standards, stretch their start to at most 16 months, add a 2028 sandbox and strengthen the AI Office.
On 4 November 2025 the High Court of England and Wales ruled in Getty Images v Stability AI, rejecting Getty's secondary copyright claim but finding very limited trademark infringement over watermarks in some outputs.
Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on 29 September 2025, California's Senate Bill 53 sets state-level oversight and incident-reporting rules for the most advanced AI models, while leaving room to align with future federal standards.
Four Chinese departments issued measures requiring labels on AI-generated text, audio, images and video, in explicit and file-metadata form, effective 1 September 2025.
A White House policy document released on 23 July 2025 that lists more than 90 federal actions across three pillars — innovation, infrastructure, and international diplomacy and security — to speed AI development and exports in the United States.
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 22 May 2025 Anthropic switched on its AI Safety Level 3 deployment and security protections alongside the launch of Claude Opus 4, a precautionary and provisional step it said was prompted by continuing gains in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear knowledge and capabilities.
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.
On 2 February 2025 the first binding parts of the EU AI Act took effect: bans on certain AI practices and requirements on AI literacy. Guidelines on the banned practices followed two days later.
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.
In January 2025 the U.S. Commerce Department placed Zhipu AI, a Tsinghua University spin-out and one of China's AI tiger startups, on its Entity List. The company rejected the decision and later listed in Hong Kong.
On 15 October 2024 Anthropic published version 2.0 of its Responsible Scaling Policy. It added capability thresholds for autonomous AI research and development and for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) weapons assistance, and made Jared Kaplan the Responsible Scaling Officer.
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Senate Bill 1047 on 29 September 2024. The bill would have required safety safeguards for large AI models and created a Board of Frontier Models.
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.
The EU Artificial Intelligence Act took effect on 1 August 2024. It sets one risk-based rulebook for AI across EU countries, banning social scoring and requiring chatbots to disclose themselves, with rules for general-purpose models to follow.
