AI Policy and Regulation — Page 5

Unsealed brief in the Times case quotes a Microsoft director calling AI training a theft of labour

Internal messages from both companies are now on the public docket, as the judge weighs competing motions that could narrow the case before trial.

Newsom orders California to draw up AI kill-switch rules by 16 November

Executive Order N-9-26 tells the Government Operations Agency to convene national experts and report back in two months on whether frontier developers should be required to keep their models deactivable.

Fifty-two groups launch a pledge asking candidates to refuse the AI industry's super PAC money

Leading the Future has raised more than $140m for the 2026 cycle. The counter-campaign has no comparable money and is betting that refusing it is worth more than taking it.

A majority of Americans now say AI is doing more harm than good in schools and universities

Roughly twice as many respondents saw harm as saw benefit, in both school systems. A growing share now thinks schools that avoid the technology will serve students better.

Connecticut bars insurers in its state employee health plan from letting AI alone cut or deny claims

The rules come from the state comptroller, who runs the plans, rather than from the legislature. The comptroller wants lawmakers to extend them to all state-regulated health insurance.