Trump Administration Eyes Equity Stake in OpenAI: What It Means for the AI Industry In a move that could fundamentally reshape the relationship between Washington and Silicon Valley, President Donald Trump has confirmed he is in active discussions with artificial intelligence compani... AI Industry AI Policy Government Tech OpenAI Trump Jun 6, 2026 News
AI Chatbots Are Flooding Courts With Self-Represented Lawsuits — and Judges Are Taking Notice Federal judges across the United States are experiencing something unprecedented: a measurable surge in self-represented civil lawsuits, and growing evidence that large language models are fueling it.... AI Legal AI Policy Access to Justice Courts LLM Jun 5, 2026 News
Trump Signs Revised AI Executive Order: Voluntary Pre-Release Reviews Replace Mandatory Requirements President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a revised executive order on artificial intelligence oversight, opting for a lighter-touch regulatory approach after significant pushback from the technology i... AI Policy AI Regulation Executive Order Government Trump Jun 2, 2026 News
Judge Stalls Anthropic's $1.5B Copyright Settlement Over Author Payout Concerns A federal judge in California has declined to rubber-stamp what was shaping up to be the largest copyright settlement in United States history. US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin paused the app... AI Policy Anthropic Artificial Intelligence Copyright Legal May 16, 2026 News
Judge Rules DOGE's ChatGPT-Powered Grant Cuts Illegal and Unconstitutional Artificial intelligence is reshaping how governments operate, but a new federal court ruling warns that handing sensitive decisions to chatbots without oversight can cross serious legal lines. On Thur... AI Policy Civil Rights DOGE Government Tech Legal Tech May 8, 2026 News
Oscars Rule Change Puts AI-Generated Actors and Scripts Outside Award Eligibility Published May 2, 2026, 8:52 PM CDT. TechCrunch reports that AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscar consideration, a significant signal from one of the entertainment industry’s mo... AI Policy Creative Tools Generative AI Media Tech May 2, 2026 News
Minnesota’s AI Nude App Ban Raises the Stakes for Platform Safety Minnesota is moving to put tougher limits on one of generative AI’s most harmful consumer use cases: apps that create fake nude images. Ars Technica reported today that the state passed a ban on fake ... AI Policy Generative AI Platform Safety Privacy May 1, 2026 News
US Accuses China of Industrial-Scale AI Theft, Escalating Tech Sanctions Risk Published: 2026-04-23 08:49 PM CT The U.S.–China technology relationship has entered another volatile phase after U.S. officials accused China of conducting what they described as “industrial-scale” t... AI Policy Cybersecurity Geopolitics Sanctions Apr 23, 2026 News
Florida probes ChatGPT role in mass shooting. OpenAI says bot "not responsible." Source: Ars Technica • Published: 2026-04-21 03:01 PM CDT (America/Chicago) Ars Technica reports that can ChatGPT be blamed for a mass shooting? Florida is investigating.. This development lands at th... AI Policy OpenAI Public Safety Regulation Apr 21, 2026 News
Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Push Could Reshape Its Standing with Washington The Verge reports that Anthropic’s release of a new cybersecurity-oriented model preview could help improve a strained relationship with elements of the U.S. government. The core takeaway is bigger th... AI Policy Anthropic Cybersecurity Government National Security Apr 18, 2026 News