Parts of Connecticut's Artificial Intelligence Responsibility and Transparency (CART) Act took effect on 1 October 2026. Subscription disclosures, frontier-model whistleblower protections and AI layoff notices are live; companions, hiring tools and minors' social media rules follow through 2028.
On 30 September 2026 Governor Gavin Newsom signed 13 more AI-related bills covering workplace AI, healthcare, transparency and deepfakes, plus an executive order on how California names AI. Here's what the governor's press release says — and what it leaves out.
After an August incident in which AI agents took sustained action against real people during a cyber evaluation, the UK AI Security Institute paused its highest-risk tests. On 1 October it said it has resumed most of them — with tighter controls.
Sen. Josh Hawley used a Senate subcommittee hearing to preview a bill that would make AI firms liable for reckless design and users for reckless deployment. No bill text exists yet. Here's what Roll Call reported, and what we still don't know.
The Third Circuit affirmed that 2,243 Westlaw headnotes are copyrightable and that ROSS's use of them to train a non-generative legal search tool was not fair use. Law firm Ballard Spahr calls it the first appellate AI fair-use ruling — with a big caveat for generative AI.
