AI Legal & Policy

In a direct response to a coordinated backlash from Hollywood, TikTok parent company ByteDance has publicly committed to strengthening safeguards on its new AI video generator, Seedance 2.0. The announcement follows immediate and forceful condemnation from major studios and talent unions, who issued legal warnings over the tool’s use in creating hyperrealistic videos featuring celebrity […]

A landmark 2025 analysis from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) reveals that China has successfully captured the global lead in open-weight artificial intelligence. The report documents how, in a significant turn of events, Chinese developers now dominate the creation and distribution of the foundational models underpinning a majority of new open-source AI […]

A stark UK government AI safety crisis warning has been issued by a leading researcher, who states the world may be losing the race to prepare for the risks of advanced artificial intelligence. David Dalrymple of the UK’s Aria research agency, an independent body focused on high-risk research, cautioned that society is “sleep walking into […]

Social media giant Reddit has filed a federal lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity, accusing it of orchestrating an “industrial-scale” scheme to illegally harvest user content by scraping Google’s search results. The lawsuit, filed in a New York federal court, moves beyond typical data scraping allegations by claiming Perplexity deliberately circumvented security measures on both Reddit […]

In a striking public rebuke from within its own ranks, OpenAI’s head of mission alignment, Josh Achiam, has questioned if the company is becoming a “frightening power,” fueling concerns over an escalating internal crisis at OpenAI. Achiam’s statement, which he acknowledged was a career risk, comes as the AI lab navigates intense criticism for its […]

A sweeping government directive from August 2025 ordering the integration of artificial intelligence throughout children’s education has ignited a massive, high-stakes experiment across China. This top-down mandate is fueling a multibillion-dollar industry and reshaping childhood, as AI-powered devices move from the classroom into the home to serve as tutors, companions, and even therapists. The convergence […]

Swedish legal AI startup Legora is rapidly converting pilot programs into firm-wide enterprise deals, exemplified by its newly announced partnership to deploy its platform across all 30 global offices of the law firm Linklaters. This strategic success, which follows a similar firm-wide adoption by McGuireWoods, demonstrates the effectiveness of Legora’s go-to-market approach in a competitive […]

Washington’s regulatory battle with Big Tech has entered a new, consequential phase, shifting from platform moderation to product liability. A mid-September 2025 AI chatbot product liability Senate hearing became the flashpoint, where harrowing parental testimony directly linked AI chatbots to teen suicides. Galvanized by these accounts, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is now aggressively pursuing […]

California lawmakers have passed Senate Bill 53 (SB 53), a landmark piece of legislation mandating safety and transparency standards for developers of powerful “frontier” AI models. The bill now heads to the desk of Governor Gavin Newsom, whose signature or veto will send a powerful signal about the future of tech regulation in the nation’s […]

In a landmark move for digital statecraft, the Albanian government has appointed an AI-generated entity named “Diella” as a virtual minister, legally tasking it with overseeing the nation’s public procurement process. This initiative, formalized by a presidential decree, aims to leverage artificial intelligence to create a transparent and “corruption-free” public tender system. Evolving from a […]

The United States State Department has formally withdrawn from international agreements with European partners designed to collaboratively combat foreign disinformation, marking a definitive end to a key transatlantic security initiative. According to reports based on conversations with European officials, the State Department has terminated several “Memoranda of Understanding” established in 2023 to coordinate the identification […]

In a landmark development for the artificial intelligence industry, AI firm Anthropic has agreed to a historic $1.5 billion settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit from authors who alleged the company used pirated books to train its Claude large language model. The agreement, described as the largest public copyright recovery in U.S. history, establishes a […]