California will fine creators $5,000 a post for hidden political ads
California will fine creators $5,000 a post for hidden political ads

“I was hearing from people in the campaign world that there’s this new strategy of paying political influencers to post content,” said Marc Berman, the California assemblyman. “Some were good about disclosure and others were a bit fast and loose.” His …

Spain’s prime minister thinks the AI industry’s safety warnings are partly a fundraising strategy
Spain’s prime minister thinks the AI industry’s safety warnings are partly a fundraising strategy

“La autorregulación no funciona.” Self-regulation does not work, Pedro Sánchez told employers and union officials at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid on Monday, closing a government event on artificial intelligence hours before flying to New York for the U…

The White House will not say what Trump’s AI Force is
The White House will not say what Trump’s AI Force is

Two days after Donald Trump announced plans for an “AI Force” and an AI czar, the White House has not clarified whether the AI Force would be a military branch, a regulatory agency, or something else. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social on Satu…

Trump says the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax. This week’s polling put Republican opposition to data centres at 47%.
Trump says the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax. This week’s polling put Republican opposition to data centres at 47%.

President Donald Trump posted twice about artificial intelligence on Saturday. The first post asked his followers to vote on a new name for the technology. The second called the campaign against it a hoax and promised an AI Force and an AI czar. The re…

US employers use software to punish workers at sixteen times the European rate. The gap is the law.
US employers use software to punish workers at sixteen times the European rate. The gap is the law.

An OECD employer survey of 6,047 firms across six countries found that 67% of US firms use software to sanction poor performance, against 4% in the four European countries surveyed. American firms also monitor the content and tone of conversations at 5…

Amodei wrote that coordinating on pace would need an antitrust waiver. Altman said OpenAI would not wait for one. Both lines are now in a lawsuit.
Amodei wrote that coordinating on pace would need an antitrust waiver. Altman said OpenAI would not wait for one. Both lines are now in a lawsuit.

Four consumers filed a class action in the Northern District of California on 18 September, naming Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google. Buist v. Anthropic PBC alleges a horizontal agreement to slow the rate at which the four improve competing produc…

TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.
TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.

A federal judge in Los Angeles has tentatively refused to lift the consent decree imposed on Musical.ly, the app ByteDance bought and turned into TikTok. Vlad Savov and Josh Sisco reported the ruling for Bloomberg, which said Judge George H. Wu intends…

Trump and Xi already talked AI guardrails once this year. Nothing was signed, and no chips shipped.
Trump and Xi already talked AI guardrails once this year. Nothing was signed, and no chips shipped.

Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Tim Cook are expected at the state dinner Donald Trump is hosting for Xi Jinping on 24 September. The same executives were on the Beijing trip in May, where AI safety was discussed, nothing was signed and the US trade repre…

Disney names Character.AI’s chief executive as its first CTO
Disney names Character.AI’s chief executive as its first CTO

Disney has named Karandeep Anand, until now the chief executive of Character.AI, to the newly created role of chief technology officer for the whole company. Disney sent Character.AI a cease-and-desist letter in September 2025 over unauthorised use of …

Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California
Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California

Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order asking a working group to report within two months on strengthening California’s AI safety laws, including whether companies should build a kill switch for frontier models. He vetoed SB 1047, which required de…