{
  "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": "2026-09-06",
  "rowCount": 39,
  "rows": [
    {
      "date": "2026-07-13",
      "event": "China makes digital assets, including game inventories, legally inheritable."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-15",
      "event": "China's first law for human-like AI companions comes into force; Doubao deletes its custom agents."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-15",
      "event": "South Korea opens its first criminal case over AI smart glasses used in a state licensing exam."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-30",
      "event": "The FCC adds advanced robotic devices to its Covered List, blocking equipment authorization for new foreign-made home robots.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/fcc-robot-vacuum-ban/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-02",
      "event": "EU AI Act Article 50 transparency rules apply: chatbots must disclose they are AI, deepfakes must be labeled.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/eu-ai-act-live/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-06",
      "event": "OpenAI pays $3.2 million to settle DOJ claims it discouraged US applicants in hiring.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/openai-doj-settlement/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-07",
      "event": "House Democrats propose a per-token tax on AI companies to fund programs for displaced workers.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/ai-tax-jobs-bill/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-09",
      "event": "Seoul court upholds an 18-month sentence for leaking SK Hynix trade secrets to a Chinese firm.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/sk-hynix-leak-sentence/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-10",
      "event": "More than 530 US counties and municipalities now restrict or block new data centers.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/data-center-bans-530/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-12",
      "event": "Meta's smart glasses are banned from every court in England and Wales.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/meta-glasses-courtroom-ban/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-15",
      "event": "Estonia plans state-issued ID codes for AI agents with scoped, auditable permissions.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/estonia-ai-id-codes/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-17",
      "event": "Connecticut judge sanctions a plaintiff for hiding AI prompts in court filings.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/court-prompt-injection/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-19",
      "event": "OpenAI launches a separate ChatGPT for teens that asks guiding questions instead of giving answers.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/chatgpt-teens-mode/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-19",
      "event": "A Florida officer is charged with official misconduct after running 717 Flock license-plate searches, including on his wife's car.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/flock-cop-717-searches/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-20",
      "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.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/apple-music-ai-label/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-22",
      "event": "Nevada approves up to 5,000 paid driverless Tesla vehicles in Clark County over 12 months, a month after allowing ten.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/nevada-5000-tesla-robotaxis/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-24",
      "event": "Texas requires local community approval for new data centers and audits power and water use.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/texas-datacenter-freeze/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-25",
      "event": "Chinese courts rule that replacing a worker with AI is not valid grounds for dismissal, upholding an illegal-dismissal finding in Hangzhou.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/china-court-ai-layoffs/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "event": "Meta settles child safety claims from 29 US states for $18 billion: teens capped at two hours a day across Facebook and Instagram, midnight-to-6am block, controls audited for 10 years."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "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.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/meta-teen-two-hours/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "event": "Bill Gates publishes a 6,000-word essay proposing that AI be taxed like employees to fund the transition.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/gates-ai-tax/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-27",
      "event": "A federal judge rules the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk designation of Anthropic unlawful retaliation and orders it removed.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/anthropic-pentagon-ruling/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-27",
      "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.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/sanders-flock-ban/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-27",
      "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.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/australia-glasses-ban/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-28",
      "event": "Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic and its founders, seeking up to $150,000 per allegedly infringed song.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/sony-warner-sue-anthropic/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-28",
      "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.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/ice-robot-dogs/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-28",
      "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.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/flock-vigilantes/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-29",
      "event": "ARIA bars wholly AI-generated songs from Australia's official charts and the ARIA Awards; tracks must be substantially human made.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/aria-ai-songs-ban/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-31",
      "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.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/apple-openai-evidence/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-31",
      "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.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/genai-mil-chatgpt-grok-no-claude/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-31",
      "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.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/tesla-104mph-filing/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-01",
      "event": "The US Justice Department backs OpenAI's fair use defense against The New York Times."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "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.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/anthropic-max-20x-lawsuit/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "event": "New York City bans student-facing generative AI through 8th grade for 600,000 students."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "event": "OpenAI tells House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capabilities after the Hugging Face incident."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "event": "Norway's digital minister says the government is considering rules for camera-enabled glasses."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-03",
      "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."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-04",
      "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."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-05",
      "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."
    }
  ]
}