California’s AI Transparency Act now requires the largest generative AI developers—such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft—to provide users with an AI detection tool.

A group of high school students gathered in Boston recently to create a one-of-a-kind document: A Congressional bill to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in school classrooms. What they came up with is remarkable.

From policy experts to plumbers, we had droves of the AI-curious descend on our booth in Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center last week.

Seven states are still in session. More than 30 AI-related bills are alive and moving in California, while Michigan, Ohio, Massachusetts, Massachusetts and North Carolina continue to mull over new AI-related rules.

Seven states restricted the use of AI in medical procedure authorizations, and five others prohibited AI chatbots from replacing licensed mental health therapists. Here’s a look at everything that’s been approved in 2026 so far.

This week: New Jersey enacted the FAIR Rent Act, an AI-adjacent law that prohibits building owners from using algorithmic pricing systems to set rental fees in residential units. Also, lawmakers began gathering in annual conferences to swap ideas and compare notes.

French President Emmanuel Macron has been a vocal advocate for the social media restrictions, which will affect kids under the age of 15 starting in September. Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the U.K. are considering similar measures.

With tech companies unwilling to heed calls for safety testing and responsible product design, state legislators have stepped up to set baseline standards. We have all the new chatbot laws listed state by state.

This week: Massachusetts lawmakers moved forward with bills that would protect kids from addictive social media algorithms and enact a bell-to-bell cellphone ban in public schools. In Hawaii, Gov. Josh Green signed two AI bills into law, and Gov. Pritzker did the same in Illinois.

Massachusetts lawmakers are moving two bills concerning kids, addictive algorithms, and the use of digital devices at school.

This week: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the state’s landmark AI Safety Measures Act into law. Sacramento went quiet as California legislators slipped out of town for their annual summer recess. Meanwhile in Boston, legislators spent much of the past week debating the sticking points of Massachusetts’ big privacy protection bill.

The law sets a strong new standard for regulating the largest and costliest AI models, known as frontier models. Illinois becomes the first state to require independent third-party safety audits with regular transparency reports.

This week: California Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted a new law requiring public school teachers to be human, while New Jersey legislators passed a Kids Code Act.

C‍alifornia’s SB 1119 and AB 2023 would build on existing state law to enhance protections for kids and parents interacting with AI chatbots.

The state’s new ‘synthetic performer law’ requires advertisers to disclose the use of AI in any ad that runs in New York.

As a parent it’s hard to know how to handle a child’s interactions with chatbots. We created this short video with basic facts and helpful tools.

This week: Arizona Gov. Hobbs vetoed all three AI bills passed by the legislature, while Rhode Island Gov. McKee signed a chatbot therapy ban into law.

Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee signed three new AI-related measures into law earlier this week, including a therapy chatbot ban and a chatbot self-harm safety measure.

Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced the new policy late last week. In a related move, his government will increase funding for the use of more books in classrooms, instead of computer tablets. “The most important thing in school is that our children learn to read, write, and do mathematics,” Støre said.

We’re keeping an eye on five AI bills that are moving forward in Harrisburg, including a ban on nudification apps, an AI toy moratorium, a chatbot safety bill, and an AI disclosure proposal.