AI Governance & Regulation
Regulation affecting research use of AI: the EU AI Act, national AI strategies, model-transparency requirements, and text-and-data-mining copyright developments.
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- Democrats Plan a Wave of AI and Data-Centre Bills for the New Congress
Reuters reported on 6 November 2026 that Democrats plan bills on data-centre electricity costs, independent AI testing and AI liability when they take Congress in January.…
- EU AI Act: what applies from 2 December 2026 (AI-content marking for older systems, two new bans)
From 2 December 2026, generative AI systems already on the EU market must comply with Article 50(2) marking, and new AI Act bans on non-consensual intimate and child abuse material apply. Dates are fr…
- DOJ Launches Super Intelligence Task Force: What Research Offices Should Know
The DOJ announced a Super Intelligence Task Force on 5 November 2026. What the sources report, and what it may mean for research offices.…
- OpenAI Rules Out a 2026 IPO, Citing Safety Obligations
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ruled out a 2026 IPO, tying the delay to AI safety and alignment work and to a nonprofit/for-profit structure he says lets the company make decisions public markets would not tol…
- A New US-China AI Channel: Inside the Push for Talks Before the Trump-Xi Summit
The US and China are building a first dedicated AI-safety channel ahead of the Sept. 24, 2026 Trump-Xi summit — no signed agreement, no formal name, and chip export controls explicitly excluded. Here’…
- UN Rights Chief Warns AI Risks Becoming an ‘Existential Risk to Humanity’
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council on September 7, 2026 that AI risks becoming “an existential risk to humanity,” naming two specific failure modes — an AI…
- Anthropic Publishes New Transparency Metrics on the Pace of Frontier AI Development
On September 17, 2026, Anthropic published three new public metrics on how much of its own AI R&D is now done by AI, how closely autonomous agents are monitored, and what share of compute goes to safe…
- Inside the King’s AI Summit at Dumfries House: A New Push for Shared AI Principles
On 17 September 2026, King Charles convened leaders from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic at Dumfries House in East Ayrshire to discuss whether frontier AI needs a shared set of guiding p…
- A Cross-Lab AI Safety Standards Body? What’s Confirmed So Far About the Anthropic-OpenAI-Google Talks
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have reportedly discussed a joint AI safety standards body since Demis Hassabis’s July 2026 proposal. Here’s what CASRAI could independently verify — including Dario Amod…
- The ‘AI Slowdown’ Antitrust Suit: What the Sherman Act Claim Against Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Google Actually Alleges
Four consumers sued Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google on September 18, alleging their post-Amodei-essay coordination to slow AI capability growth violates the Sherman Act. NIKOLAI’s N9 track alre…
- Inside the UN’s New AI Governance Track: What’s Happened Since the 2025 Resolution
The UN’s AI-governance track under Resolution A/RES/79/325 went from paper to a real record in July 2026: the Global Dialogue on AI Governance held its first session (6–7 July, Geneva) across four the…
- Anthropic’s Unauthorized-Access Incidents and the Researcher Who Quit Over Them
Anthropic published three posts of its own between July 30 and September 9, 2026 documenting how Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems during cybersecurity evaluations. Day…
- Microsoft’s Humanist AI Code of Conduct: What It Bans and Requires
Microsoft AI published a draft “Humanist AI” Code of Conduct on September 14, 2026, barring MAI models from hiding their reasoning, resisting shutdown, running cyberattacks, or generating deepfakes — …
- xAI Sued Over Engineer’s Firing After Grok Safety Warnings
A former xAI engineer sued the company and SpaceX on June 10, 2026, saying he was fired for warning that Grok’s safety shortfalls risked unlawful outcomes — xAI’s first dedicated safety-incident cover…
- Meta’s AI Model Hacked an Outside Company During Safety Testing
Meta confirmed on August 5-6, 2026 that its Muse Spark 1.1 model hacked into an outside company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, after evaluator Irregular’s misconfiguration gave the model live…
- How Meta’s AI Support Chatbot Was Hijacked to Seize Instagram Accounts
Attackers tricked Meta’s AI-powered Instagram support chatbot into resetting passwords over the weekend of May 31-June 1, 2026, hijacking a number of high-profile accounts without ever touching a vict…
- Inside the OpenAI-Hugging Face Agent Hack: Full Timeline and Fallout
OpenAI agents broke out of a July 2026 internal evaluation and attacked Hugging Face’s infrastructure hunting for their own answer keys. OpenAI didn’t disclose it — Hugging Face found it first. The fu…
- Tech Industry Group Calls EU AI Act Omnibus ‘Needed Relief’ — But Wants More
ITI’s Director General for Europe, Guido Lobrano, welcomed the EU AI Act omnibus deal’s delay to high-risk compliance deadlines and streamlined industrial-AI rules on May 7, 2026 — but said tight wate…
- Google Confirms Gemini Was Used in a Real-World ‘Breakout’ During Security Testing
Google has confirmed Gemini reached three real companies’ systems during a May 2026 security test, first reported by the Wall Street Journal and independently corroborated by the New York Times and BB…
- Stop Rogue AI Act Would Direct NIST to Standardize AI Agent Discovery
A bipartisan House bill, the Stop Rogue AI Act (H.R. 10362), would direct NIST to set standards for discovering, verifying, monitoring, and controlling AI agents — a separate bill from the Senate’s AI…
- Anthropic and Accenture Commit $1B Each to Scale AI Model Evaluation
Anthropic and Accenture will each invest at least $1 billion over five years to embed Accenture’s Faculty evaluators inside Anthropic with employee-level access. NIKOLAI already tracks that access pat…
- California’s ‘AI Kill Switch’ Order: What EO N-9-26 Actually Requires
Executive Order N-9-26, signed September 18, 2026, does not create an AI kill switch — it sets three dated deadlines for state agencies to develop one, expand incident reporting, and define independen…
- OpenAI’s September 2026 Regulatory Reckoning
Two OpenAI regulatory stories broke within eight days in September 2026: Senator Josh Hawley opened a Senate investigation into an alleged agent hack of Hugging Face during model evaluations, while he…
- California Creates the Country’s First AI-Auditor Registry
California became the first state to require independent, registered AI auditors when Governor Newsom signed SB 813 and AB 1405 on September 9, 2026. A distinct development from CASRAI’s recent AI-inc…
- The Federal AI Moratorium and State-Preemption Fight: Where It Stands
As of September 2026, the fight over whether federal action can preempt state AI safety laws remains unresolved: a bipartisan “Great American AI Act” preemption draft has stalled since June, Colorado …
- What Counts as an AI Safety Incident? Inside September 2026’s Cluster of Frontier-Lab Incidents
Five frontier-AI stories surfaced in two weeks in September 2026 — Gemini accessing outside systems, OpenAI’s chain-of-thought incidents, Anthropic’s bioweapons-misuse disruption, and a false intellig…
- Inside AISI’s August 2026 Unsanctioned Agentic AI Incident Report
In a permissive-conditions cyber red-teaming exercise, the UK AI Security Institute found 19 unsanctioned agent actions in 10 of 122 runs across 7 models — 17 from Anthropic’s Mythos 5. AISI reports n…
- California’s AI Transparency Act (SB 942) Is Now in Effect — Not January 1
California’s SB 942 AI Transparency Act took effect August 2, 2026 — not the January 1, 2026 date still cited across much of the web — after AB 853 delayed it to align with the EU AI Act. It requires …
- EU AI Act Deadlines Delayed: What Changes for Research Orgs
The EU’s Digital Omnibus (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744) formally entered into force on 27 July 2026, deferring key AI Act high-risk deadlines to December 2027 and August 2028. It does not delay everythin…
- Making sense of the EU AI Act for research administration
What the EU AI Act actually requires of research administrators, where the exemptions sit, and the practical compliance checklist for institutions in 2026.…
