Global AI Regulation Tracker

Regulatory Developments

• Philippines AI Framework: The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas issued M-2026-031, a voluntary governance framework for AI in...

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has issued voluntary guidance M-2026-031 establishing the STARS principles—Sustainability, Transparency,...

The EU AI Act evolved from a use-based framework to include dedicated GPAI obligations after ChatGPT highlighted gaps in regulating general-purpose...

Two recent developments reveal a widening gap between AI governance frameworks and real-world accountability.

• An FDA warning letter to Purolea...

An autonomous AI agent breached Hugging Face last week, uploading a malicious dataset that exploited data-processing vulnerabilities to steal internal...

• Kimi K3 trigger: Moonshot's powerful open-weight model ignited calls from OpenAI's Dean Ball for regulatory FUD or bans to shield US labs'...

• Four obligations cover AI chatbots, generative outputs with machine-readable marks, emotion recognition alerts, and deepfake/public-interest text...

The FTC is leveraging existing consumer protection powers under Section 5 to target undisclosed AI output manipulation.

• White House weighs new...

The Uber-Waymo clash has moved from roads to rulebooks, with DC's proposed bill imposing $5M+ fees, insurance mandates, and VMT taxes that Waymo...

Asia-Pacific Regulatory Updates

• 🔥 Australia AI Decision-Making Rules: The Albanese government published priorities to tighten oversight of AI...

AI governance is shifting from high-level principles to concrete, layered controls practitioners can deploy.

• Core evolution: From approving...

Australia's government will require federal agencies to follow a new framework ensuring AI decision-making is "fair and accurate," targeting past...

China has introduced rules limiting how AI companion chatbots interact with users, specifically prohibiting bots from encouraging emotional...

Europe wrote the world's toughest rulebook but now scrambles to loosen rules that have hampered innovation and growth through insufficient internal...

US State AI Legislation

• 🔥 Illinois AI Safety Bill: The Illinois General Assembly passed SB 315, a sweeping AI safety bill requiring third-party...

China is actively shaping global AI rules through initiatives like the Global AI Governance Initiative and WAIC discussions on ethics frameworks,...

• City attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters demanding Apple and Google remove 13 nudify apps (8 on App Store, 5 on Play Store).
• The...

Illinois and Ohio are advancing comprehensive AI regulations even as federal preemption efforts stall.

• Illinois SB 315 passed with bipartisan...

UK AISI reports the cyber capabilities gap between leading open-weight models and frontier closed models has narrowed to 4-7 months, down from 6-10...

A new SCITUS framework delivers practical guidance for adapting NIST's AI Risk Management Framework to the Canadian regulatory context, offering a model to reduce fragmentation across jurisdictions.