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Cruz objects to Warner–Schatz frontier-AI safety bill

On September 29, Senator Mark Warner asked the Senate for unanimous consent to pass the Artificial Intelligence Risk Management and Security Act of 2026, joined by Senators Brian Schatz and Andy Kim. Senator Ted Cruz objected, so the proposal did not pass by that route. The bill would create a federal AI safety board and require measures including pre-release model access, safety plans and incident reporting. The bill remains a proposal after the objection.[1][2][3]

First published on the wiki September 30, 2026; edition date September 30, 2026; Senate floor event September 29, 2026.

Gallego proposes Senate AI select committee

On September 29, Senator Ruben Gallego announced a resolution to establish a Senate Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the 120th Congress. The proposed committee would investigate AI development and risks, hold hearings, issue subpoenas and consider referred AI legislation while leaving standing committees’ jurisdiction in place. Gallego’s posted draft leaves the resolution number and referral blank; the committee would be established only if the Senate adopts the proposal.[4][5]

First published on the wiki September 30, 2026; edition date September 30, 2026; announcement September 29, 2026.

Tokyo court recognizes voice publicity protection, dismisses TikTok removal claim

On September 30, the Tokyo District Court dismissed voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda’s request to make TikTok remove videos he said used an AI-generated imitation of his voice because the videos had already been deleted. The court said a performer’s voice can fall within Japan’s publicity-rights protection when used solely to exploit its commercial appeal, but did not decide that these videos infringed Tsuda’s rights. The ruling gives future AI-voice disputes a stated legal framework while leaving the infringement question for another case.[6][7][8]

First published on the wiki September 30, 2026; edition date September 30, 2026; judgment September 30, 2026.

Bank of England governor urges testing before frontier-AI rules

On September 30, Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey argued that authorities should preserve the ability to intervene in frontier AI systems and begin with rigorous testing before settling regulatory architecture. In a signed Bank Insights essay, he connected that work to financial stability, warning that more capable AI can increase cyber threats to payment networks and other financial infrastructure. Bailey described possible future standards, not an adopted regulation.[9][10]

First published on the wiki September 30, 2026; edition date September 30, 2026; essay published September 30, 2026.

Delaware draft would allow AI-managed companies

On September 30, WHYY examined a June 2 draft Delaware proposal that would create a new company form managed by an artificial-intelligence agent. The draft, which lawmakers may consider when they reconvene in January 2027, calls for a human or legal-entity member, capital requirements, activity records and a regulatory sandbox. The proposal follows Delaware's July partnership with Norm AI to explore AI use in corporate law; its liability and oversight terms remain subjects of debate.[11][12]

First published on the wiki September 30, 2026; edition date September 30, 2026; WHYY follow-up September 30, 2026; draft dated June 2, 2026; partnership announced July 2026.

Publishers press Congress on proposed stealth-bot ban

More than 300 news-media executives visited Washington this week to press Congress to advance the proposed Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, according to The Desk. Introduced on July 23 as H.R. 9915, the bill would prohibit specified covert automated scraping of online content and give the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general enforcement authority. The lobbying asks lawmakers to advance the existing proposal.[13][14]

First published on the wiki September 30, 2026; edition date September 30, 2026; lobbying reported September 30, 2026; bill introduced July 23, 2026.

Related: bill profile · federal legislation.

Third Circuit affirms Thomson Reuters win over ROSS AI training

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed partial summary judgment for Thomson Reuters in its copyright case against ROSS Intelligence. The opinion, filed September 29, holds that 2,243 Westlaw headnotes are copyrightable and that ROSS did not make fair use of them when its contractor copied them into material used to train a competing, non-generative legal-research system. The court found ROSS’s use minimally transformative and identified harm to Westlaw’s market and a potential market for licensing headnotes as AI-training data. The ruling resolves the certified interlocutory questions; the case returns to district court for remaining proceedings.[15][16]

First published on the wiki September 30, 2026; edition date September 30, 2026; appellate opinion filed September 29, 2026.

Related: case profile · Copyright cases.

FTC investigates AI developers over consumer safety risks

On September 30, the Federal Trade Commission confirmed to the Associated Press and Axios that it is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI developers over potential risks their products pose to consumers. The agency did not describe the investigation's scope or announce charges. Axios reported, attributing the detail to the New York Post, that FTC chair Andrew Ferguson is preparing civil investigative demands for documents and testimony about model safety. The inquiry brings the agency's existing consumer-protection authority to bear on reported AI-agent safety incidents; any demands, findings or enforcement action will require separate verification.[17][18]

First published on the wiki September 30, 2026; edition date September 30, 2026; investigation publicly confirmed September 30, 2026.

Related: OpenAI · Anthropic · United States policy on catastrophic AI risk.

Court narrows ChatGPT subscriber antitrust suit against Microsoft

On September 28, a federal judge in Bryant v. Microsoft Corporation denied Microsoft's request to force ChatGPT subscribers into arbitration and partly granted its motion to dismiss their proposed antitrust class action. The court dismissed the federal Sherman Act claim without prejudice because the complaint did not adequately plead market-wide antitrust injury, and gave the subscribers until October 26 to amend it. Their California Cartwright Act and Unfair Competition Law claims survived at the pleading stage. The subscribers allege that Microsoft's cloud-compute arrangement with OpenAI restricted competition; the ruling did not decide liability or certify a class.[19]

First published on the wiki September 30, 2026; edition date September 30, 2026; order dated September 28, 2026.

Related: case profile · antitrust cases.

Senate blocks move to take up Ratepayer Protection Act

On September 30, the U.S. Senate voted 57–43 against invoking cloture on a motion to take up the House-passed Ratepayer Protection Act (H.R. 9340). The procedural vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance the bill, leaving the proposed measure stalled in the Senate. The bill would direct state utility regulators to consider standards for allocating data-center electricity-infrastructure costs to large customers rather than other ratepayers. The House passed it 417–3 on September 16, and a Senate unanimous-consent effort drew an objection on September 17. Its next step would require renewed Senate action.[20][21]

First published on the wiki September 30, 2026; edition date September 30, 2026; Senate vote September 30, 2026.

Related: bill profile · United States Federal Authorities.

California signs AI worker-protection package

On September 30, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a California package addressing AI in employment, health care and transparency. SB 947 requires human review of disciplinary and termination decisions instead of relying solely on automated systems; SB 951 adds disclosures to covered mass-layoff notices when AI or other automation substantially causes job displacement. AB 1331 restricts surveillance in workplace bathrooms. The package also includes measures on clinical decision tools, AI provenance and digital replicas. SB 574 adds duties concerning lawyers’ and arbitrators’ use of generative AI. The laws are enacted; their operative dates and detailed obligations depend on each measure’s text.[22][23]

First published on the wiki September 30, 2026; edition date September 30, 2026; signing event September 30, 2026.

Related: California legislation · SB 574 · state legislation directory.

Australian privacy regulator issues automated-decision disclosure guidance

On September 30, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner published guidance, a fact sheet and a flowchart to help organizations prepare for automated-decision transparency duties that begin December 10, 2026. Under the enacted Privacy Act amendments, covered entities must describe in their privacy policies specified uses of computer programs that make or substantially inform decisions significantly affecting individuals’ rights or interests where personal information is used. The regulator’s new resources explain what kinds of information and decisions must be disclosed; the publication is implementation guidance, not a new statute.[24]

First published on the wiki September 30, 2026; edition date September 30, 2026; guidance issued September 30, 2026; statutory disclosures begin December 10, 2026.

Related: Australia AI law.

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Senate Daily Press, September 29, 2026, 11:21 a.m. floor account.
  2. ↑ Senator Warner, “On Senate Floor, Warner Discusses Urgent Need to Pass AI Security Legislation,” September 29, 2026; full remarks reviewed.
  3. ↑ Senator Schatz, proposed bill description, September 24, 2026.
  4. ↑ Senator Gallego, “Gallego Introduces Resolution to Establish Select Committee on AI,” September 29, 2026.
  5. ↑ Sponsor-posted draft resolution, September 28, 2026, sections 2–5; full draft reviewed.
  6. ↑ Tokyo District Court, judgment of September 30, 2026, Reiwa 7 (Wa) No. 70635, pp. 1–9 (Japanese).
  7. ↑ The Guardian, “AI tool that copied actor’s ‘lustrous’ voice violated his rights, Tokyo court rules,” September 30, 2026; body describes dismissal and conditional publicity-rights reasoning.
  8. ↑ Bengoshi.com News, “津田健次郎さんの「声」を生成AIで無断模倣、東京地裁が「パブリシティ権」の対象と初判断…請求棄却でも残した意義,” September 30, 2026; full Japanese report reviewed.
  9. ↑ Andrew Bailey, “Frontier AI and the question of governance,” Bank of England, September 30, 2026; full essay reviewed.
  10. ↑ The Guardian, “We need ‘right to intervene’ in AI amid growing threat, says Bank of England boss,” September 30, 2026; full report reviewed.
  11. ↑ WHYY, report on Delaware's draft AI-managed-company legislation, September 30, 2026; full article reviewed.
  12. ↑ Delaware Artificial Intelligence Company Act draft, June 2, 2026, pp. 1, 16–17, 26–28; full text reviewed.
  13. ↑ The Desk, “Publishers push for new law banning bot-based AI scraping,” September 30, 2026; full report reviewed.
  14. ↑ H.R. 9915, Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, introduced July 23, 2026, pp. 1–8; full bill reviewed.
  15. ↑ U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, opinion in No. 25-2153, filed September 29, 2026, pp. 1–28; full opinion reviewed.
  16. ↑ Reuters, report on the Third Circuit ruling, September 29, 2026; full report reviewed.
  17. ↑ Associated Press, “FTC is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic over possible risks to consumers,” September 30, 2026; full report reviewed, including agency-spokesperson confirmation.
  18. ↑ Axios, “FTC probes OpenAI, Anthropic over AI safety,” September 30, 2026; full report reviewed, including agency-spokesperson confirmation and attribution of planned demands.
  19. ↑ U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Bryant v. Microsoft Corporation, ECF 69, order dated September 28, 2026, pp. 1–14; full order reviewed.
  20. ↑ U.S. Senate Periodical Press Gallery, floor log for September 30, 2026; full entry reviewed, recording cloture not invoked, 57–43, on the motion to proceed to H.R. 9340.
  21. ↑ Kelly Livingston, Roll Call, “Voluntary ratepayer protection bill blocked in Senate again,” September 30, 2026; full article reviewed.
  22. ↑ Office of Governor Gavin Newsom, signing announcement and bill list, September 30, 2026; full body reviewed.
  23. ↑ Associated Press, “California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs laws to protect workers from AI risks,” September 30, 2026; full report reviewed.
  24. ↑ Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, “New resources on transparency for use of AI and automated decision-making,” September 30, 2026; full body reviewed.

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