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CaliforniaRequires companion chatbot operators, beginning July 1, 2027, to perform and document child safety risk assessments and meet other child safety duties before offering new or substantially modified chatbots in California.
CaliforniaBars covered platforms from providing addictive features to users under 16, with Attorney General enforcement, and creates an e-Safety Advisory Commission in the Department of Justice.
CaliforniaRepeals the enjoined Age-Appropriate Design Code Act and replaces it with similar duties requiring online services likely to be accessed by children to take reasonable steps to prevent specified risks of harm.
CaliforniaAmends the Digital Age Assurance Act to revise how operating systems collect age information and send age signals to app stores and app developers.
CaliforniaExpands social media platform reporting duties for child sexual abuse material to cover intimate depictions of identifiable minors and makes noncompliant platforms liable to depicted individuals.
CaliforniaBans the manufacture or sale in California of toys that include a companion chatbot until January 1, 2031.
CaliforniaRequires the Government Operations Agency to create an AI Auditor Registry by January 1, 2029 and bars unregistered AI auditors from conducting covered AI audits.
New HampshireSets rules on the use of blockchain technology and digital currencies in New Hampshire and on resolving related disputes.
TexasRequires digital service providers to register users' ages, limit collection and use of minors' data, give parents supervision tools, and filter harmful content for known minors.
AustraliaAmends the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 to create a Scams Prevention Framework imposing scam prevention, detection, reporting and response obligations on designated sectors such as banks, telecommunications and digital platforms.
United States (federal)Declares a national emergency over foreign threats to the bulk power system, citing electricity demand from data centers and AI.
United NationsDesignates 31 August as the International Day of Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence, to be observed annually beginning in 2027.
MissouriEstablishes civil liability for publishing or distributing material harmful to minors on the internet.
New JerseyRequires data center owners and operators to submit semiannual reports to the Board of Public Utilities on their energy and water use.
DelawareBars state agencies, counties and municipalities from signing nondisclosure agreements that keep the public from information about large data center projects of 100 MW or more.
FranceFrench law on protecting minors from social network risks whose central ban on social media access for under-15s was struck down by the Constitutional Council, leaving provisions amending the Penal Code and the 2004 digital economy law and requiring schools to address screen exposure and restrict mobile phones.
New JerseyCodifies the New Jersey Age-Appropriate Design Code, requiring online services to limit collection of children's data, set high-privacy defaults for minors and restrict engagement-maximizing features.
New ZealandSets binding privacy rules under the Privacy Act 2020 for agencies that use biometric technologies such as facial recognition to verify, identify or categorise people.
European UnionSets EU-wide risk-based rules for AI systems, banning certain practices, imposing requirements on high-risk systems, transparency duties for some AI, and obligations for general-purpose AI model providers.
European UnionCommission guidelines on Article 50 of the AI Act clarifying who must disclose AI interactions, mark AI-generated content in machine-readable form, and label deepfakes and certain AI-generated text.
CaliforniaRequires data brokers to register with the California Privacy Protection Agency and to process consumer deletion requests submitted through a single state-run deletion mechanism.
MinnesotaBars websites, apps and services from letting users nudify images or videos of identifiable people and from advertising such tools, with a private right of action and attorney general civil penalties up to $500,000 per violation.
MinnesotaProhibits installing or operating cryptocurrency kiosks in Minnesota from August 1, 2026, requires operators to remove them and pay out customer funds by December 31, 2026, and repeals the prior kiosk regulations.
MinnesotaAllows Minnesota financial institutions to offer and perform virtual-currency custody services for customers.
European UnionRestores, until 3 April 2028, a temporary derogation from the ePrivacy Directive that lets messaging and other communications providers voluntarily detect, report and remove online child sexual abuse material, after the earlier interim regulation expired on 3 April 2026.
MinnesotaCommerce policy omnibus that enacted the Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act requiring social media platforms to publicly disclose engagement limits, ranking signals, usage statistics and product experiments, and barred internet service providers from blocking, throttling or paid prioritization of lawful internet traffic.
European UnionAmends the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking regulation to provide a legal basis for AI Gigafactories of more than 100,000 advanced AI processors and to expand quantum computing activities.
New YorkBars social media platforms from giving users under 18 algorithmic addictive feeds or overnight notifications without parental consent, with age determination rules set by the Attorney General.
European UnionAmends the AI Act to delay high-risk obligations to 2 December 2027 and 2 August 2028, extend SME relief to small mid-caps, simplify AI literacy and registration duties, widen AI Office oversight, and ban AI nudification and CSAM generation.
European UnionSets obligations and prohibitions for large online platforms designated as gatekeepers, such as bans on self-preferencing and anti-steering, and requirements on interoperability and data use.
DelawareCreates the Load Forecast Accountability Act to scrutinize electricity demand forecasts driven by data centers and other large loads.
South KoreaCreates South Korea's comprehensive AI framework, with a national AI strategy committee and basic plan, industry support, and obligations for high-impact and generative AI such as user notice, labeling, risk management and local representatives for foreign firms, backed by fines of up to 30 million won.
South KoreaImplements the AI Basic Act with detailed rules on high-impact AI criteria and impact assessments, safety obligations for large AI systems, domestic representative thresholds and the schedule of administrative fines.
European UnionSets due diligence obligations for online intermediaries and platforms on illegal content, transparency, advertising and protection of minors, with extra systemic risk duties for very large online platforms and search engines supervised by the Commission.
ChinaRegulates AI companion and other human-like emotional interaction services, barring virtual intimate relationship services for minors and requiring safeguards against emotional dependence and separate consent before chat data is used for training.
HawaiiRequires AI companion operators to make disclosures, maintain suicide and self-harm response protocols, protect minor users, and report annually to the Department of Health starting in 2028.
New YorkPauses state environmental permits for new hyperscale data centers for up to one year while the state develops regulatory standards and a generic environmental impact statement.
JapanSets out the government's plan under the AI Promotion Act for promoting AI research, development, use and trustworthiness, revised in 2026 as a second-phase plan.
HawaiiProhibits certain harmful uses of AI-generated realistic digital imitations of individuals and provides civil actions and remedies for people injured by them.
HawaiiRequires certain social media platforms to let users delete their accounts and permanently erase associated personal information, and bars deceptive practices that obstruct deletion.
NigeriaSets Nigeria's national plan for adopting artificial intelligence, with pillars on infrastructure, talent, research, ethical governance and public sector use.
IllinoisBars teachers from using AI tools to generate evidence of professional practice used in their evaluations and limits AI use in the teacher evaluation process.
IllinoisBars health insurers from using automated processes or algorithms that bypass review of the billing professional's information to downcode medical claims.
European UnionVoluntary code that helps providers of generative AI systems mark and detect AI-generated content and helps deployers label deepfakes and certain AI-generated text, to meet Article 50(2), (4) and (5) of the AI Act.
European UnionSets cybersecurity risk management and incident reporting obligations for medium and large entities in critical sectors and requires member states to supervise and enforce them.
MinnesotaSpecial session health omnibus that requires social media platforms, starting July 1, 2026, to show a mental health warning label with crisis resources each time a user accesses the platform, under guidelines set by the Department of Health.
New JerseyRequires electric utilities to create a separate rate class and special rules for large load customers such as data centers so other ratepayers are protected from higher costs.
VietnamRegulates the research, development, provision, deployment and use of AI systems in Viet Nam with risk-based obligations, human oversight, an AI sandbox and a national AI development fund.
European UnionCommission action plan to promote safe use of advanced AI, including pre-market evaluation capacity for AI models under the AI Act, strengthen EU cyber resilience, and scale up AI capabilities for cybersecurity.
IllinoisRequires large frontier AI developers to publish and follow safety frameworks, undergo annual independent third-party audits, and report critical safety incidents.
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