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On 2 November 2026 Apple told developers that apps with dating or romantic features, including AI companion apps, must carry an 18+ rating, with new content descriptors required from 16 November.
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.
Zoox received the first commercial exemption NHTSA has ever granted for a purpose-built robotaxi, letting the company charge fares for driverless rides and start collecting them in Las Vegas.
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.
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.
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.
The European Commission published the final General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, a voluntary tool to help providers comply with AI Act rules that apply from August 2025. It covers transparency, copyright, safety and security.
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.
On 13 May 2025, the US Commerce Department moved to rescind the AI Diffusion Rule two days before its compliance date, told officials not to enforce it, and issued guidance on Huawei Ascend chips and Chinese AI model training.
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 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.
