Large Load Electric Users: Electric Cooperatives Not Required to Supply
Provides that electric cooperatives are not required to supply electricity to large load users with projected monthly demand above 50 MW, such as data centers.
Provides that electric cooperatives are not required to supply electricity to large load users with projected monthly demand above 50 MW, such as data centers.
A Senate bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Prohibits using artificial intelligence to create child sexual abuse material.
Regulates the use of artificial intelligence in political campaign materials.
Government bill to set a permanent statutory framework for national cyber defense in Israel.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sets governance rules for electronic system operators, including social media and gaming platforms, to protect children online, such as minimum-age limits on children's accounts.
Would bar operators from offering AI companions with features deemed unsafe for minors, such as simulated emotional relationships or encouragement of self-harm, with a private right of action.
Directs agencies to harden federal and critical infrastructure systems with AI enabled cyber defenses, create an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse with industry and secure frontier AI models.
A binding privacy code being developed by the OAIC under the Privacy Act, as required by the 2024 amendments, to set how online services likely to be accessed by children handle their personal information.
House passed vehicle that would reauthorize FISA Title VII until April 30, 2029 with added Section 702 protections and bar a central bank digital currency.
Would require conspicuous disclosure when news content is substantially created with generative AI, enforced by the Attorney General.
Requires mobile app stores to verify user ages, obtain parental consent before minors download apps or make purchases, and share age-category data with developers.
Would require developers of generative AI systems offered in New York to post documentation about the data used to train them.
Would impose a moratorium on approvals for and operation of new data centers in Michigan.
The Supreme Court held that the FCC may issue forfeiture orders without a jury, in cases arising from fines against AT&T and Verizon over their handling of customer location data.
Would impose a one-year moratorium on permits for data centers with peak demand of 20 megawatts or more and require utility rate classes, efficiency standards and community benefits for large data centers.
Would require providers of synthetic content creation systems to attach provenance data to AI-generated or modified content.
Would ban using algorithms and consumers' personal data to charge different customers different prices for the same goods or services, with exceptions such as loyalty programs.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Establishes a framework to strengthen the EU semiconductor ecosystem through the Chips for Europe Initiative, support for first-of-a-kind production facilities, and a supply crisis monitoring and response mechanism.
Commission communication presenting the European Technological Sovereignty Package, linking the Chips Act 2.0, the Cloud and AI Development Act, an EU Open Source Strategy and a roadmap for digitalisation and AI in energy.
Bars licensed mental health professionals from using AI to provide therapy without real-time professional oversight and restricts deceptive marketing of AI mental health services.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Would have banned using surveillance data and algorithms to set individualized prices for consumers or wages for workers.
Requires AI tools used in health insurance utilization review to consider individual clinical data and keeps coverage denials under human professional review.
Requires operators of internet sites or applications containing material pornographic for minors to perform reasonable age verification.
Requires operators of conversational AI services to give disclosures and apply safeguards for minor users, including parental tools and limits on sexually explicit and engagement-maximizing content.
Commission decision fining Temu 200 million euros under the Digital Services Act for failing to properly identify and assess the systemic risks of illegal products offered on its marketplace.
Creates data broker registration rules and amends the Connecticut Data Privacy Act, including limits on the sale of precise geolocation data and provisions on facial recognition.
Sets safety protocols for AI chatbots with extra protections for minors, whistleblower protections for frontier AI developer employees, disclosure duties for AI products and labeling of AI-generated material.
Commerce omnibus that, among many insurance and consumer provisions, bars health utilization review organizations from using automated processing alone, without clinician review, to make adverse determinations.
Would address AI-generated images, including simulated child sexual abuse material, and identity fraud using replicas of a person.
Introduced as a chatbot safety and data privacy bill, it was amended and enacted to direct the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations to study regulating AI systems and generative AI chatbots.
Introduced to create a felony for training AI to encourage suicide or homicide, it was amended and enacted to direct the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations to study AI and report by 2027-01-31.
Creates a human services systems modernization fund, advisory council and legislative commission, lists artificial intelligence and other automation tools as eligible uses, and funds an AI chatbot for economic assistance program policy.
Requires large social media platforms to estimate users' ages, obtain verifiable parental consent for accounts of children 15 and under, set those accounts to the most private settings, and bar addictive features and targeted ads on them.
Directs financial regulators to update rules so fintech firms and digital assets can be integrated into traditional financial services and payments.
Would create a whistleblower incentive and protection program for reporting export control violations to the Bureau of Industry and Security.
Senate bill to limit liability for vendors that provide cloud storage to law enforcement for child sexual abuse material held as evidence.
The bill restricts the export of advanced semiconductor technology.
Would prohibit the nonconsensual creation, possession and dissemination of nudified images.
Would have created the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Environmental Accountability Act.
Amends Louisiana's law on minors' use of applications and app store age verification.
Repeals and replaces the 2024 Colorado AI Act with notice, explanation, human review and correction rights for consumers affected by automated decision-making technology in consequential decisions.
Required developers and deployers of high-risk AI systems to use reasonable care to protect consumers from algorithmic discrimination in consequential decisions.
Would have required the Public Utilities Commission to establish a special electricity rate structure for data centers.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Council of Europe treaty requiring parties to ensure that activities across the life cycle of AI systems are consistent with human rights, democracy and the rule of law, entering into force after five ratifications including three Council of Europe member states.
Would have required websites that distribute material harmful to minors to verify users' ages; the Governor vetoed it and the veto was sustained.