{
  "name": "AI Regulation Tracker",
  "description": "Laws, bans and enforcement actions on AI around the world, as they take effect. Compiled from ANOTHER News daily coverage.",
  "url": "https://anothernews.io/trackers/ai-regulation/",
  "publisher": "ANOTHER News",
  "publisherUrl": "https://anothernews.io/",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "licenseName": "CC BY 4.0",
  "terms": "https://anothernews.io/data/",
  "citation": "ANOTHER News, AI Regulation Tracker, https://anothernews.io/trackers/ai-regulation/",
  "updated": "2026-09-23",
  "schemaVersion": 2,
  "rowCount": 44,
  "rows": [
    {
      "date": "2026-07-13",
      "jurisdiction": "China",
      "body": "Chinese court",
      "instrument": "court-ruling",
      "status": "in-force",
      "claim": "a court ordered a game company to transfer 87 accounts to a deceased player's mother; virtual property has been inheritable under Civil Code Article 127 since 2021, so this is the code being applied, not a new law",
      "event": "China makes digital assets, including game inventories, legally inheritable.",
      "source": "https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1018861"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-15",
      "jurisdiction": "China",
      "instrument": "law",
      "status": "in-force",
      "claim": "Doubao deleted its custom agents in response",
      "event": "China's first law for human-like AI companions comes into force; Doubao deletes its custom agents.",
      "source": "https://www.justsecurity.org/148468/china-ai-companion-rules-relationships/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-15",
      "jurisdiction": "South Korea",
      "body": "prosecutors",
      "instrument": "enforcement",
      "status": "ongoing",
      "event": "South Korea opens its first criminal case over AI smart glasses used in a state licensing exam."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-30",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "FCC",
      "instrument": "rule",
      "status": "adopted",
      "event": "The FCC adds advanced robotic devices to its Covered List, blocking equipment authorization for new foreign-made home robots.",
      "source": "https://www.klgates.com/thought-leadership/FCC-Adds-Foreign-Produced-Advanced-Robotic-Devices-to-the-Covered-List-Five-Things-to-Know-8-3-2026",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/fcc-robot-vacuum-ban/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-02",
      "jurisdiction": "European Union",
      "instrument": "law",
      "status": "in-force",
      "claim": "AI Act Article 50: chatbots must disclose they are AI, deepfakes must be labeled",
      "event": "EU AI Act Article 50 transparency rules apply: chatbots must disclose they are AI, deepfakes must be labeled.",
      "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/eu-ai-act-live/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-06",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "DOJ",
      "instrument": "settlement",
      "status": "adopted",
      "event": "OpenAI pays $3.2 million to settle DOJ claims it discouraged US applicants in hiring.",
      "source": "https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/civil-rights-division-secures-settlement-openai-discriminating-against-us-workers",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/openai-doj-settlement/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-07",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "House Democrats",
      "instrument": "bill",
      "status": "proposed",
      "event": "House Democrats propose a per-token tax on AI companies to fund programs for displaced workers.",
      "source": "https://casar.house.gov/media/press-releases/news-casar-leads-introduction-new-bill-protect-workers-threat-ai-mass",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/ai-tax-jobs-bill/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-09",
      "jurisdiction": "South Korea",
      "body": "Seoul court",
      "instrument": "court-ruling",
      "status": "adopted",
      "event": "Seoul court upholds an 18-month sentence for leaking SK Hynix trade secrets to a Chinese firm.",
      "source": "https://www.thedailystar.net/news/tech-startup/news/ex-sk-hynix-employee-jailed-leaking-chip-tech-chinese-firm-report-4243481",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/sk-hynix-leak-sentence/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-10",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "counties and municipalities",
      "instrument": "rule",
      "status": "in-force",
      "claim": "more than 530 jurisdictions restrict or block new data centers",
      "event": "More than 530 US counties and municipalities now restrict or block new data centers.",
      "source": "https://heatmap.news/politics/data-center-local-laws-bans-total",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/data-center-bans-530/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-12",
      "jurisdiction": "England and Wales",
      "body": "judiciary",
      "instrument": "ban",
      "status": "in-force",
      "event": "Meta's smart glasses are banned from every court in England and Wales.",
      "source": "https://www.engadget.com/2234606/england-and-wales-ban-meta-glasses-from-courtrooms/",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/meta-glasses-courtroom-ban/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-15",
      "jurisdiction": "Estonia",
      "body": "government",
      "instrument": "proposal",
      "status": "proposed",
      "event": "Estonia plans state-issued ID codes for AI agents with scoped, auditable permissions.",
      "source": "https://www.valitsus.ee/en/news/prime-minister-michal-estonia-become-first-country-create-digital-identities-ai-agents",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/estonia-ai-id-codes/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-17",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "Connecticut court",
      "instrument": "court-ruling",
      "status": "adopted",
      "event": "Connecticut judge sanctions a plaintiff for hiding AI prompts in court filings.",
      "source": "https://www.404media.co/person-hides-prompt-injection-in-legal-filing-telling-ai-to-side-with-them/",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/court-prompt-injection/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-19",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "Florida prosecutors",
      "instrument": "enforcement",
      "status": "ongoing",
      "event": "A Florida officer is charged with official misconduct after running 717 Flock license-plate searches, including on his wife's car.",
      "source": "https://www.fox13news.com/news/haines-city-officer-arrested-misusing-flock-cameras-track-estranged-wife-officials",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/flock-cop-717-searches/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-19",
      "jurisdiction": "—",
      "body": "OpenAI",
      "instrument": "policy",
      "status": "off-rule",
      "claim": "a product launch, not a law, ban, ruling or enforcement action",
      "event": "OpenAI launches a separate ChatGPT for teens that asks guiding questions instead of giving answers."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-20",
      "jurisdiction": "—",
      "body": "Apple Music",
      "instrument": "policy",
      "status": "adopted",
      "event": "Apple Music tells partners a Made With AI label will mark any track materially generated with AI; over a third of monthly uploads are fully AI-generated.",
      "source": "https://www.apple.com/newsroom/",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/apple-music-ai-label/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-22",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "Nevada",
      "instrument": "rule",
      "status": "adopted",
      "event": "Nevada approves up to 5,000 paid driverless Tesla vehicles in Clark County over 12 months, a month after allowing ten.",
      "source": "https://www.business.nv.gov/news-media/press-releases/2026/ntata/nevada-transportation-authority-approves-autonomous-vehicle-network-applications-for-tesla-waymo-and-aviari/",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/nevada-5000-tesla-robotaxis/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-24",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "Texas",
      "instrument": "rule",
      "status": "in-force",
      "event": "Texas requires local community approval for new data centers and audits power and water use.",
      "source": "https://www.axios.com/2026/08/23/greg-abbott-texas-data-centers-ai-backlash",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/texas-datacenter-freeze/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-25",
      "jurisdiction": "China",
      "body": "courts",
      "instrument": "court-ruling",
      "status": "adopted",
      "event": "Chinese courts rule that replacing a worker with AI is not valid grounds for dismissal, upholding an illegal-dismissal finding in Hangzhou.",
      "source": "https://www.caixinglobal.com/2026-04-30/chinese-courts-rule-companies-cannot-fire-workers-simply-to-replace-them-with-ai-102439602.html",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/china-court-ai-layoffs/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "29 states and territories",
      "instrument": "settlement",
      "status": "adopted",
      "claim": "$18 billion over 10 years plus a two-hour daily cap for teens",
      "event": "Meta settles child-safety claims by 29 US states and territories for $18 billion over 10 years and agrees to a two-hour daily teen limit across Facebook and Instagram.",
      "source": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/tech/meta-states-settle-trial-children",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/meta-teen-two-hours/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "jurisdiction": "—",
      "body": "Bill Gates",
      "instrument": "statement",
      "status": "off-rule",
      "claim": "an essay proposing a policy, not a policy",
      "event": "Bill Gates publishes a 6,000-word essay proposing that AI be taxed like employees to fund the transition.",
      "source": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/business/bill-gates-wants-limits-on-ai",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/gates-ai-tax/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-27",
      "jurisdiction": "Australia",
      "body": "Greens",
      "instrument": "bill",
      "status": "proposed",
      "event": "Australia's Greens introduce a Senate bill for a 12-month freeze on importing smart glasses and wearable recording devices after $89 Kmart camera glasses sold out.",
      "source": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-27/push-for-import-ban-on-smart-glasses-amid-privacy-concerns/107074628",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/australia-glasses-ban/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-27",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "federal court",
      "instrument": "court-ruling",
      "status": "adopted",
      "event": "A federal judge rules the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk designation of Anthropic unlawful retaliation and orders it removed.",
      "source": "https://www.npr.org/2026/08/28/nx-s1-5947761/judge-pentagon-anthropic-illegal",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/anthropic-pentagon-ruling/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-27",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "Sen. Bernie Sanders",
      "instrument": "bill",
      "status": "proposed",
      "event": "Bernie Sanders announces a bill to ban Flock Safety's AI license plate cameras, which he says number more than 120,000 across 6,000 US communities.",
      "source": "https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-vows-to-introduce-legislation-to-stop-flocks-ai-mass-surveillance/",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/sanders-flock-ban/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-28",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell",
      "instrument": "lawsuit",
      "status": "ongoing",
      "claim": "seeking up to $150,000 per allegedly infringed work",
      "event": "Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic and its founders, seeking up to $150,000 per allegedly infringed song.",
      "source": "https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/now-sony-music-publishing-and-warner-chappell-sue-anthropic-in-multi-billion-dollar-lawsuit-one-of-the-largest-and-most-blatant-ongoing-thefts-of-intellectual-property-in-history/",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/sony-warner-sue-anthropic/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-28",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "ICE",
      "instrument": "procurement",
      "status": "proposed",
      "event": "ICE plans to buy Boston Dynamics Spot robot dogs with a budget of $1 to 2 million, alongside a separate $16.7 million DHS surveillance contract.",
      "source": "https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-spends-millions-on-boston-dynamics-dog-robots/",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/ice-robot-dogs/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-28",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "instrument": "report",
      "status": "off-rule",
      "claim": "162 cameras destroyed per FlockStats; reporting on a movement, not an act of state",
      "event": "The Verge reports a national movement of residents destroying Flock cameras: 162 destroyed per FlockStats, and more than 20 cities dropped Flock contracts in July.",
      "source": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/985155/flock-camera-destruction-vigilantes",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/flock-vigilantes/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-29",
      "jurisdiction": "Australia",
      "body": "ARIA",
      "instrument": "policy",
      "status": "adopted",
      "event": "ARIA bars wholly AI-generated songs from Australia's official charts and the ARIA Awards; tracks must be substantially human made.",
      "source": "https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/aria-to-ban-ai-generated-music-australian-charts/g509tctuc",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/aria-ai-songs-ban/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-31",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "Apple",
      "instrument": "lawsuit",
      "status": "ongoing",
      "event": "Apple accuses OpenAI of destroying evidence in its trade-secrets case; the filing says an ex-engineer's AI agent ran simulations on a stolen chip schematic. Hearing October 1.",
      "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/apple-shares-shocking-evidence-against-former-employee-accused-of-stealing-company-data-for-openai/",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/apple-openai-evidence/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-31",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "Pentagon",
      "instrument": "procurement",
      "status": "adopted",
      "claim": "ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on GenAI.mil for about 3 million personnel; Claude stays off",
      "event": "The Pentagon adds ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government to GenAI.mil for about 3 million personnel; Claude stays off the platform after the guardrail dispute.",
      "source": "https://defensescoop.com/2026/08/31/grok-chatgpt-added-to-genai-mil/",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/genai-mil-chatgpt-grok-no-claude/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-31",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "NHTSA",
      "instrument": "report",
      "status": "ongoing",
      "event": "Tesla's NHTSA crash report lists driver assist as engaged at 104 mph in a fatal May crash in Clute, Texas that police attributed to a medical episode; key fields redacted.",
      "source": "https://electrek.co/2026/08/31/tesla-driver-assist-fatal-crash-clute/",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/tesla-104mph-filing/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-01",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "DOJ",
      "instrument": "lawsuit",
      "status": "ongoing",
      "event": "The US Justice Department backs OpenAI's fair use defense against The New York Times.",
      "source": "https://ipwatchdog.com/2026/09/03/doj-sides-with-openai-warns-obstacles-to-ai-development-threaten-national-security/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "jurisdiction": "Norway",
      "body": "digital minister",
      "instrument": "statement",
      "status": "proposed",
      "event": "Norway's digital minister says the government is considering rules for camera-enabled glasses."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "instrument": "lawsuit",
      "status": "ongoing",
      "event": "Kahn v. Anthropic, a class action over the Claude Max 5x and 20x plans, resurfaces; the complaint says weekly caps make the $200 plan far less than 20 times Pro.",
      "source": "https://qz.com/anthropic-sued-claude-max-subscription-usage-limits-061526",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/anthropic-max-20x-lawsuit/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "New York City",
      "instrument": "ban",
      "status": "in-force",
      "claim": "student-facing generative AI barred through 8th grade for 600,000 students",
      "event": "New York City bans student-facing generative AI through 8th grade for 600,000 students.",
      "source": "https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/09/mayor-mamdani-and-chancellor-samuels-put-students-first-with-nat"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "jurisdiction": "—",
      "body": "OpenAI",
      "instrument": "statement",
      "status": "off-rule",
      "event": "OpenAI tells House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capabilities after the Hugging Face incident."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-03",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "Sen. Sanders and Rep. Casar",
      "instrument": "bill",
      "status": "proposed",
      "event": "Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar announce the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act: a permanent ban on superintelligent AI with penalties up to 20 years in prison and a corporate death penalty.",
      "source": "https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-casar-introduce-legislation-to-ban-artificial-superintelligence-and-temporarily-pause-advanced-ai-development/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-04",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "Seattle Times and Newsday",
      "instrument": "lawsuit",
      "status": "ongoing",
      "event": "Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft in SDNY, asking for impoundment and/or destruction of datasets and models trained on their articles.",
      "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/05/seattle-times-and-newsday-are-the-latest-publications-to-sue-openai-and-microsoft/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-04",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "NHTSA",
      "instrument": "investigation",
      "status": "ongoing",
      "event": "NHTSA opens an investigation into how Tesla self-certified the Cybercab, which has no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors, as meeting federal safety standards.",
      "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/feds-launch-investigation-into-teslas-cybercab-deployment/",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/cybercab-nhtsa-probe/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-05",
      "jurisdiction": "—",
      "body": "OpenAI",
      "instrument": "statement",
      "status": "off-rule",
      "event": "OpenAI admits it did not disclose the German wiki hijack by its agents, classing it as misalignment rather than a security incident, and promises a disclosure framework."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-07",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "California",
      "instrument": "investigation",
      "status": "ongoing",
      "event": "California opens an investigation into OpenAI over the July Hugging Face intrusion by its agents.",
      "source": "https://80000hours.org/hugging-face/",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/hf-hack-states-investigate/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-09",
      "jurisdiction": "United States",
      "body": "Sen. Josh Hawley",
      "instrument": "inquiry",
      "status": "ongoing",
      "event": "Sen. Josh Hawley opens an inquiry into OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach in a letter to Sam Altman.",
      "source": "https://www.axios.com/2026/09/10/openai-hugging-face-senate-investigation-hawley",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/wym-hawley-openai-probe/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-12",
      "jurisdiction": "—",
      "body": "Anthropic",
      "instrument": "statement",
      "status": "off-rule",
      "event": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for pacing frontier AI and commits Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators with employee-like access; Sam Altman says OpenAI will do the same.",
      "source": "https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/amodei-pace-the-frontier/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-13",
      "jurisdiction": "—",
      "body": "President Trump",
      "instrument": "statement",
      "status": "off-rule",
      "event": "President Trump rejects the labs' AI slowdown call (\"whoever wins AI, wins\"); PCAST co-chair David Sacks tells OpenAI and Anthropic to pace themselves without demanding regulation in return.",
      "source": "https://www.npr.org/2026/09/13/nx-s1-5968078/trump-mike-johnson-ai-slowdown",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/trump-rejects-slowdown/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-14",
      "jurisdiction": "—",
      "body": "President Trump",
      "instrument": "statement",
      "status": "off-rule",
      "event": "Trump says the only guardrail AI needs is a \"STRONG AND SMART\" president and rejects calls to slow AI.",
      "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/trump-phones-nvidia-huang-all-in-calls-data-center-opposition-hoax.html",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/trump-huang-hoax/"
    }
  ]
}