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25 developments and 27 rules, in date order. Built automatically from everything tagged with this topic.
- Rule · In forceCNDeep Synthesis Provisions
- Rule · In forceUSNIST AI RMF
- Rule · In forceCNGenerative AI Measures
- Rule · Partly in forceEUEU AI Act
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- Rule · In forceKRAI Basic Act
- Rule · In forceCNGB 45438-2025 labelling standard
- Rule · In forceCNAIGC Labelling Measures
- EU publishes General-Purpose AI Code of Practice ahead of AI Act model duties
It became the practical compliance template for frontier model providers selling into the EU, including systemic-risk assessment and incident reporting duties.
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- Rule · In forceEUGPAI guidelines and training-data summary template
- RBI publishes FREE-AI framework for AI in India's financial sector
It is the reference blueprint for how RBI-regulated banks, NBFCs and fintechs are expected to govern AI, and the starting point for any binding RBI rules that follow.
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- Rule · In forceINRBI FREE-AI Framework
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- China's mandatory labelling rules for AI-generated content take effect
Every generative AI service and content platform operating in China now has to apply both visible labels and machine-readable provenance, a model later echoed in India and the EU.
- Google launches AP2, an open protocol for payments made by AI agents
Agent-initiated payments break the assumption that a human clicks 'pay', so authorisation, liability and fraud rules depend on proof-of-intent standards like this one.
- Review of 445 LLM benchmarks finds widespread construct-validity weaknesses
Headline benchmark gains, including in science and maths, are only as meaningful as the measurement behind them, which this review finds often weak.
- MAS consults on AI risk management guidelines for all financial institutions
It is among the first supervisory AI rulebooks to explicitly cover agentic AI across banks, insurers and asset managers, and a likely template for other Asian regulators.
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- Rule · In consultationSGMAS AI Risk Management Guidelines (AIRG)
- NY Comptroller finds New York City barely enforces its AI hiring law
The first US AI-hiring audit law has been largely paper protection, and the audit signals tougher enforcement risk for employers using screening tools in New York City.
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- Trump executive order targets state AI laws with litigation and funding pressure
It does not void any state law by itself, but it opened a federal legal and financial campaign against state AI statutes such as Colorado's and California's.
- Rule · In forceUSState AI law preemption EO
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- FDA loosens oversight of AI decision-support software and health wearables
More AI tools used by clinicians and consumers can reach market without FDA clearance, shifting safety assurance to developers and health systems.
- Attorney General sets up DOJ AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state AI laws
The federal government is now a litigant against state AI rules, raising the legal risk that state compliance regimes are paused or struck down.
- FDA and EMA issue ten joint principles for AI in drug development
Sponsors using AI in trials, manufacturing or safety monitoring get a single transatlantic baseline, reducing divergent expectations between the two largest drug regulators.
- Rule · In forceKRAI Basic Act Enforcement Decree
- South Korea's AI Basic Act takes effect, with a one-year pause on fines
It is one of the first comprehensive AI laws with binding duties to take effect outside the EU, and a test of how such a law is phased in for global providers.
- US Treasury releases AI lexicon and finance-specific AI risk framework
In the absence of binding US federal AI rules for finance, this voluntary framework is likely to become the benchmark examiners and auditors use.
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- White House sends Congress AI framework calling for preemption of state laws
It is the administration's template for any federal preemption bill and signals which state rules, chiefly model-development laws, are most exposed.
- Rule · ProposedUSWhite House AI legislative framework
- Visa expands Agentic Ready agent-payment testing to Asia Pacific and Latin America
Card networks are setting the practical rules for agent identity, spending limits and dispute handling before regulators have, which will shape liability when agents pay.
- EU deal keeps AI medical devices under AI Act high-risk rules, delayed to 2028
Medtech makers selling AI devices in Europe must plan for dual MDR and AI Act conformity, with one extra year to prepare.
- China's State Council commits to speeding up a comprehensive AI law in 2026 plan
China is moving from piecemeal CAC rules toward a single horizontal AI statute that would govern every provider operating there.
- Rule · ProposedCNPlanned AI law
- Rule · Enacted, not yet in forceUS-COSB 26-189 (Colorado ADMT law)
- Rule · In consultationEUHigh-risk classification guidelines (draft)
- EU finalises code of practice on marking and labelling AI-generated content
Signing is the simplest way for model providers and publishers to evidence compliance with EU labelling duties now in force.
- Rule · In forceEUAI content marking and labelling code
- RBI drafts model risk rules covering AI/ML for all regulated lenders
It turns parts of the FREE-AI principles into supervisory expectations that will apply to most AI used in Indian lending and payments.
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- Rule · In consultationINRBI draft Model Risk Management guidance
- EU pushes AI Act duties for hiring and workplace AI back to December 2027
Employers and HR-tech vendors selling into the EU get 16 extra months before conformity, oversight and logging duties for workplace AI apply.
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- Rule · In forceEUDigital Omnibus on AI
- Rule · In forceEUArticle 50 transparency guidelines
- EU Digital Omnibus on AI enters force, delaying high-risk AI Act duties to 2027-28
Providers and public bodies deploying high-risk AI in the EU gain 16-24 months, while the new prohibitions and watermarking deadline arrive in December 2026.
- UN expert group agrees final report on autonomous weapons; treaty question deferred
Consensus kept the process alive but left binding limits on autonomous weapons to a November decision that the major military powers can block.
- Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA form alliance for grid-flexible AI data centres
Industry is offering flexible-load commitments as the price of faster grid access, the same trade regulators are weighing in the FERC proceedings.
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- OpenAI starts watermarking ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to meet AI Act rules
It is one of the first concrete large-scale answers to the EU's AI-content marking duties, and shows the limits: short or heavily edited text is hard to detect, and the detector is not public.
- UK accepts all 44 recommendations of doctor-led commission on regulating health AI
Medical-AI makers selling in the UK should expect ongoing monitoring duties after approval, not a one-off clearance, bringing the UK closer to the FDA's lifecycle approach.