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Legal & Policy
Britain's competition regulator just gave publishers real tools to block AI scraping, even as the Trump administration tries to split the difference between industry demands and security concerns.
By The AI Beat · June 3, 2026
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Legal & Policy
Today's dispatch from the Legal & Policy Desk.
By The AI Beat · June 2, 2026
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Legal & Policy
Today's dispatch from the Legal & Policy Desk.
By The AI Beat · June 1, 2026
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Legal & Policy
The company's legal saber-rattling against a researcher (or disgruntled ex-employee) raises questions about responsible disclosure, corporate retaliation, and what "proper coordination" really means.
By The AI Beat · May 31, 2026
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Legal & Policy
AB 1856 would spare Linux from California's age verification law, but every browser and website would still need to card you.
By The AI Beat · May 30, 2026
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Legal & Policy
The state's new testing requirements have buy-in from major labs, marking a shift in how AI regulation might actually work.
By The AI Beat · May 29, 2026
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Legal & Policy
Governor Pritzker will sign a bill requiring third-party audits of AI safety practices, setting a new bar for state-level regulation.
By The AI Beat · May 28, 2026
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Legal & Policy
An encyclical about artificial intelligence's dangers shows telltale signs of being written by Claude, raising questions about whether the Vatican practiced what it preached.
By The AI Beat · May 27, 2026
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Legal & Policy
The FTC settled with three companies that claimed they could spy on users through smart devices to serve ads, even though they probably couldn't.
By The AI Beat · May 26, 2026
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Legal & Policy
Today's dispatch from the Legal & Policy Desk.
By The AI Beat · May 25, 2026
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Legal & Policy
Today's dispatch from the Legal & Policy Desk.
By The AI Beat · May 24, 2026
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Legal & Policy
Ken Paxton's lawsuit alleges WhatsApp doesn't actually provide end-to-end encryption, but critics say the complaint lacks factual support and looks more like campaign positioning.
By The AI Beat · May 23, 2026
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Legal & Policy
The president delayed an executive order requiring pre-release government reviews of AI models, signaling a potential shift in how the US approaches AI regulation.
By The AI Beat · May 22, 2026
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Legal & Policy
Bambu Lab's attempt to shut down a developer's remote control code has sparked a legal fight over open-source licensing that could reshape the industry.
By The AI Beat · May 21, 2026
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Legal & Policy
The first state law targeting platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket raises the question of whether states can regulate event-contract markets at all.
By The AI Beat · May 20, 2026
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Legal & Policy
A jury unanimously agreed Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI, but the case put the nonprofit's pivot to profit under a spotlight it won't soon escape.
By The AI Beat · May 19, 2026
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Legal & Policy
The former Google CEO told Arizona grads AI will save them, but they weren't buying it, and the skepticism reflects real legal and economic questions about who benefits from the technology.
By The AI Beat · May 18, 2026
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Legal & Policy
Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settled a Kentucky district's lawsuit claiming social media addiction drained school budgets, but the sealed terms leave bigger questions unanswered.
By The AI Beat · May 17, 2026
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Legal & Policy
Plaintiff lawyers stand accused of rushing a historic copyright deal to collect $320 million in fees while authors might see pennies on the dollar.
By The AI Beat · May 16, 2026
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Legal & Policy
After weeks of testimony, the biggest tech trial of the year ended with Musk's lawyer calling a witness by the wrong name and getting fact-checked by the judge.
By The AI Beat · May 15, 2026
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Legal & Policy
The Musk v. Altman trial kept getting stranger this week, while a separate lawsuit targets xAI's gas turbine scheme at its Colossus 2 data center.
By The AI Beat · May 14, 2026
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Legal & Policy
With Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Elon Musk in tow, the Trump administration is heading into negotiations with China over semiconductors, and the regulatory stakes for the AI industry couldn't be higher.
By The AI Beat · May 14, 2026
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Legal & Policy
A new lawsuit with chat logs showing a teenager asking "Will I be OK?" is forcing courts to confront AI liability questions they've been avoiding for years.
By The AI Beat · May 13, 2026
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Regulation
The NYT is suing OpenAI. Getty won a default judgment against Stability. Congress is drafting new statutes. Here's the full legal, technical, and economic picture of AI copyright in 2026.
By The AI Beat · May 3, 2026
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Regulation
The EU AI Act is enforceable. China requires algorithm registrations. The US still has no federal law. Here's a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction breakdown of the rules, penalties, and loopholes that matter right now.
By The AI Beat · April 30, 2026