AI Law Wiki News for May 2026
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News summaries for May 2026. Select a date to read the full daily digest.
Illinois advanced frontier AI safety audits; Shift raised robot-training privacy questions; EU-U.S. Mythos talks continued; and state AI bills advanced in California, Colorado, Missouri, and New York; Colorado signs conversational AI safeguards
Illinois SB 315 frontier-model safety bill sent to Gov. Pritzker; YouTube expands AI-video labels; CNN sues Perplexity over alleged content copying.
Connecticut signs SB 4 consumer privacy law; its original surveillance-pricing section was later repealed.
FTC targets “Active Listening” AI marketing claims; WIRED reports law-enforcement documents flag “anti-tech extremism” amid AI backlash.
ECB pressed European lenders on AI cybersecurity risk after Anthropic's Mythos raised concerns about advanced vulnerability discovery; Pope Leo XIV released an AI-focused encyclical calling for robust public regulation.
House panels probed Airbnb and Anysphere over Chinese-developed AI models; the NTSB restricted docket access after AI voice reconstructions; an advisory jury found Elon Musk's OpenAI claims time-barred.
State AI legislation roundup; Trump and California AI executive-order developments; POLITICO shut down AI tools after arbitration; HHS expanded AI fraud-audit screening; early Take It Down Act charges; NTSB restricted accident-docket access after AI cockpit-audio reconstructions; Estonia authorized fully driverless Bliq.ai operations; Tennessee enacts AI regulation study
Vatican AI encyclical launch; White House AI-order delay and NSA model-testing proposal; Meta school-district settlement; China AI-layoff rulings; California AI-workforce executive order; Spotify-UMG AI remix licensing deal; London blocks Met Police Palantir AI procurement
Vietnam published Decree No. 142/2026/ND-CP, implementing measures for its Law on Artificial Intelligence, and reporting on a draft White House AI executive order said frontier-model review would be voluntary.
Anthropic challenged a Defense Department supply-chain-risk designation, Illinois lawmakers advanced frontier-model safety negotiations, AP reported that Musk's trial claims against OpenAI were rejected, and the FTC began enforcing the TAKE IT DOWN Act.
A federal court rejected Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Microsoft after an advisory jury found the claims time-barred.
State AI legislation roundup: Connecticut SB 5 went to the governor, Georgia enacted two AI bills, Hawaii sent AI disclosure and deepfake bills to the governor, and Colorado sent four AI bills to the governor.
Colorado signs revised AI decision-making law
Journalists sued Google over alleged voice use in AI training; Meta offered rival AI chatbots temporary free WhatsApp Business API access amid EU antitrust scrutiny; and Meta launched an incognito mode for WhatsApp AI chats.
OpenAI faces a Florida State shooting lawsuit, Texas sues Netflix over child-data/autoplay design, the Pentagon deploys Anthropic's Mythos, and Sam Altman testifies in Musk v. OpenAI.
EU model-access talks, Nadella and Sutskever testimony in Musk v. Altman, Florida State OpenAI lawsuit, and CAISI website removal over AI security testing
Publishers and authors sue Meta and Zuckerberg over Llama training; Florida signs SB 484 data-center cost-allocation law tied to AI infrastructure.
Federal evidence-rules panel delays AI/deepfake proposals; Connecticut and Maryland AI bills advance; Musk v. Altman testimony spotlights OpenAI control; OCC flags AI-related banking cyber and compliance risks.
Federal judge blocks DOGE’s AI-assisted termination of NEH grants, finding the mass cancellations unconstitutional and ultra vires
EU clinches deal to delay AI Act high-risk rules to Dec 2027; DOJ files Complaint in Intervention against Colorado AI law; Zilis testifies in Musk v. Altman; Anthropic–SpaceX compute deal; Meta asks judge to overturn addiction verdict; Cloudflare cuts 1,100 in AI restructuring; Chrome silently installs 4GB Gemini Nano
Pennsylvania sues Character.AI over chatbot posing as doctor; White House expands AI model vetting and weighs security EOs; Brockman and Murati testify in Musk v. Altman trial.
New Mexico seeks $3.7B from Meta as Phase 2 trial opens; Ball & Buchanan call for bipartisan AI security action; Google DeepMind UK staff unionize; Google, Microsoft, and xAI join CAISI early model access program.
Musk sought settlement before trial; Trump admin discusses AI oversight EO; Brockman's $30B stake and '$1B diary' revealed at Musk v. Altman trial; EU compute plan criticized; Anthropic announces $1.5B Wall Street venture; Colorado slims AI anti-bias bill; N.D. Cal. opens audio streaming for civil trials; FTC bars Kochava; "This is Fine" creator alleges art theft; unions back data centers
Pentagon awards seven AI contracts for classified networks, Academy establishes first AI eligibility rules for Oscars, and AI ModelForge sued over Instagram scraping for non-consensual AI imagery.
Judge rebukes Musk attorney in OpenAI trial; Amazon sued over AI Rufus shopping assistant; building trade unions partner with tech on AI data centers; Meta faces New Mexico remedies bench trial; OpenAI employees alarmed over ChatGPT violence reporting failures; Oscars issue first-ever AI rules; Chinese court rules AI cannot replace workers
Maryland AI pricing law; Tennessee enacts 6 AI bills; DOD classified AI deals; Pentagon says Anthropic still blacklisted