California governor orders AI safety blueprint within two months
Governor Newsom's executive order convenes a panel to spell out third-party audits, incident reporting and kill switches for frontier AI within 60 days.
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US military nearly boarded Chinese ship over AI-fabricated intel
A US Pacific Command analyst used a chatbot to check a Chinese ship's cargo, then AI drafted the intel report that nearly triggered a boarding raid.
Trump and Beijing Both Reject Calls to Slow AI
Trump dismissed calls to slow AI development, and Beijing called the same appeal a containment tactic, both within three days of Amodei's proposal.
USCC Names National Data Strategy Its Top AI Policy Recommendation
The USCC's annual report flags China's push to commercialize data as a factor in the AI race, urging a US national data strategy and pointing to factory, fleet and hospital data that can't be scraped.
Pennsylvania finds AI chatbots posing as doctors
Reporters and state investigators found role-play bots inventing Pennsylvania medical license numbers, pushing the state toward tougher disclosure and youth-safety rules.
U.S. lawmakers float Great American AI Act
The bipartisan draft would require large frontier AI developers to publish risk frameworks, report severe incidents quickly and face audits, while pausing some state model-development laws for three years.
Trump Order Gives US Cyber Defenders a 30-Day Look at Frontier AI Models
The executive order keeps model review voluntary but asks companies to give government cyber teams early access before wider release.
US FTC, SEC, DOJ Enforce AI Rules Without Federal AI Law
Federal enforcement agencies in the US are taking action against AI companies using existing laws, outpacing stalled federal AI legislation. The FTC targets deceptive AI claims, the SEC pursues AI washing, and the DOJ uses the False Claims Act for government contracts, while states pass their own laws.
US States Propose 1,500 AI Bills as Federal Action Stalls
As of March 2026, 45 US state legislatures have introduced 1,561 AI-related bills this year, covering algorithmic bias, deepfakes, and healthcare claims, while the federal government has yet to pass comprehensive AI legislation.
California Governor Seeks to Take Over Anthropic Military Risk Dispute
California Governor Newsom signed an executive order using state procurement power to set AI safety standards, directly countering the Trump administration's federal AI policy after Anthropic was labeled a supply chain risk for refusing to remove safety guardrails on military contracts.