California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 947 on September 30, 2026, barring employers from disciplining or firing a worker based solely on an automated decision system, with duties starting July 1, …
Maryland's Protection From Predatory Pricing Act, House Bill 895, takes effect October 1, 2026, allowing the Maryland Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division to begin enforcing the state's ban…
Five weeks after the EU AI Act's Article 50 transparency obligations became applicable on August 2, 2026, no enforcement actions or fines have been issued under these provisions, according to a Forkas…
As of September 1, 2026, no public enforcement actions have been reported under the European Union's Article 50 transparency obligations, which became enforceable on August 2, 2026, but the EU AI Offi…
A Connecticut man suing a bariatric surgery group hid a prompt injection in a July 2026 court filing, instructing AI models to agree with his case, and was sanctioned by the court. The tactic mirrors …
A Connecticut court employee spotted unusual whitespace in a legal filing, uncovering a hidden prompt injection attack. A pro se plaintiff had embedded near-invisible instructions in white text, telli…
A Connecticut man attempted to use hidden prompt-engineering messages in legal filings to influence a judge, but the tactic failed and drew scrutiny. The incident highlights the growing, often covert …
A Connecticut plaintiff embedded invisible prompt injections in court filings, formatted in 3-point white text on a white background, to secretly influence a potential AI review system. Judge Spader r…
At its August 13 meeting, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Working Group reported that a 12-state pilot of its AI Risk Evaluation Supplement wi…
A Connecticut judge ruled that a plaintiff concealed text messages relevant to a lawsuit by using an AI tool to redact them from court filings, according to Reuters. The judge found the AI-generated r…
A Connecticut court sanctioned pro se plaintiff Matthew Elliott for hiding prompt injection instructions in 3-point white font in court filings, directing AI systems to rule in his favor. The court, l…
Gabriel Weil, a professor at the University of Houston Law Center, argues that proposed private governance models for frontier AI, such as independent verification organizations (IVOs), are flawed bec…
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed the Fair Price Protection Act, banning grocery stores from using personal data to set individual prices, with fines up to $10,000 for first offenses and $20,0…
Connecticut has not enacted a comprehensive AI law after its high-risk AI bill (SB 2) died in the House in 2024 and failed again in 2025, leaving only narrow provisions such as a state-agency AI inven…
A family that moved from the US to Spain uses Anthropic's AI assistant Claude to navigate language barriers and local systems, including troubleshooting a refrigerator, communicating with a doctor, tr…
New York's One Fair Price Act, passed by the state legislature on June 4, 2025, targets 'surveillance pricing'—the use of personal data to set individualized subscription prices. A class action lawsui…
A Consumer Reports investigation found that Uber and Lyft charge different customers significantly different prices for the same rides, with median price differences of about 50%. The investigation al…
Engineers are resisting AI adoption not because they fear the technology itself, but because they fear being reduced to junior-level competence, according to a talk delivered at Web Directions AI Engi…
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed Senate Bill 4 in May 2026, updating the Connecticut Data Privacy Act with a centralized data deletion portal, a data broker registry, restrictions on selling pre…
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a civil lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of prioritizing profits over user safety and linking the company's chatbot to multiple vi…