AI Regulations

The U.S. government escalated its long-running effort to block China’s access to cutting-edge AI hardware.

The United States Copyright Office determined that existing laws are sufficient to decide whether a given AI-generated work is protected by copyright, making additional legislation unnecessary.

Large language models built by developers in China may, in some applications, be less useful outside that country because they avoid topics its government deems politically sensitive. A developer fine-tuned DeepSeek-R1 to widen its scope without degrading its overall performance.

A United States court delivered a major ruling that begins to answer the question whether, and under what conditions, training an AI system on copyrighted material is considered fair use that doesn’t require permission.

The latest international AI summit exposed deep divisions between major world powers regarding AI regulations.

Under a new president, the United States reversed its approach to AI regulation, seeking global dominance by reducing restrictions.

Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Texas are considering stringent AI regulation.

The United States proposed limits on exports of AI technology that would dramatically expand previous restrictions, creating a new international hierarchy for access to advanced chips and models.

A new study suggests that leading AI models may meet the requirements of the European Union’s AI Act in some areas, but probably not in others.

Politicians and pundits have conjured visions of doom to convince lawmakers to clamp down on AI. What if terrified legislators choke off innovation in AI?

Major AI companies plan to meet the growing demand with nuclear energy.

A new report documents the interplay of powerful forces that drove AI over the past year: open versus proprietary technology, public versus private financing, innovation versus caution. 

The United States government launched Operation AI Comply, targeting businesses whose uses of AI allegedly misled customers.

Researchers probed the black market for AI services that are designed to facilitate cybercrime.

A German court dismissed a copyright lawsuit against LAION, the nonprofit responsible for large-scale image datasets used to train Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and other image generators.