Anthropic is pushing US states to adopt tougher AI regulations, arguing that existing transparency-focused safety laws from 2025 are no longer sufficient for the most powerful AI systems. Cesar Fernan…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul said her team used AI to analyze every rule, regulation, and policy in the state in just a couple of months, a task that would have taken five years manually. Hochul tol…
The Bay Area captured 51.5% of all AI venture dollars and 53.2% of all B2B dollars from July 2025 through June 2026, according to Carta's Startup Ecosystem Leaderboard, which tracked $124 billion inve…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order Tuesday imposing the country's first statewide moratorium on hyperscale data centers, blocking construction of new large facilities for up …
Governor Kathy Hochul signed a one-year moratorium on new AI datacenters in New York on Tuesday, making the state the first in the US to pause the expansion of these energy-intensive facilities. The e…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on Tuesday pausing construction of new data centres drawing 50 megawatts or more for up to a year, making New York the first US state to impose…
Former President Donald Trump denounced New York Governor Kathy Hochul's one-year moratorium on new hyperscale datacenter construction, calling for the policy to be scrapped immediately. New York beca…
U.S. President Donald Trump criticized New York's one-year pause on major new data center projects, arguing in a July 15 Truth Social post that it risked pushing AI investment to states like Alabama, …
78 AI-law developments occurred across federal, state, and global jurisdictions for the week of July 13–19, 2026, including Colorado's law mandating therapists' real-time intervention during client-AI…
New York City's Local Law 144, requiring annual independent bias audits for automated employment decision tools, is partially in effect, while the RAISE Act (S6953B), signed in December 2025 and effec…
President Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted New York's new one-year pause on hyperscale data center permits, calling data centers 'money machines' and 'cash cows' that generate jobs and tax revenue. T…
Authors and publishers, including Hachette Book Group and Elsevier, filed a federal lawsuit against Google in New York on July 14, accusing the tech giant of using millions of copyrighted books from G…
President Donald Trump criticized New York Governor Kathy Hochul's first-in-the-nation ban on new data centers, calling it a 'terrible decision' on Truth Social. Trump argued the moratorium will drive…
China enacted new legislation making virtual relationships with chatbots illegal for minors, requiring AI companies to alert a minor's emergency contact if an emotional crisis is detected, and banning…
China, California, and New York have enacted laws restricting companion AI chatbots, citing risks of addiction, mental harm, and social disruption. China's new law, effective today, bans free user-bui…
President Donald Trump criticized New York Governor Kathy Hochul's executive order imposing a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, calling it a 'terrible decision' and urging the state to re…
Anthropic is advocating for stricter state-level AI safety laws, backing California's SB 53 and New York's RAISE Act, diverging from OpenAI's push for a streamlined national framework with immediate f…
Anthropic is pursuing a state-by-state strategy to encourage increasingly tougher AI guardrails, in contrast to OpenAI's push for uniform regulations. Cesar Fernandez, Anthropic's head of U.S. state a…
AI-driven growth risks stalling as energy grids fail to keep pace with innovation, warned Standard Chartered's global head of research Eric Robertsen on Wednesday, citing New York's moratorium on new …
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has imposed a first-of-its-kind data center moratorium, using executive power to halt AI infrastructure expansion while keeping legislative negotiations open, a move tha…