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AI laws and rules tracker 2026
AI laws, bills, executive orders, court rulings, regulator proposals and international agreements from our reporting, with their status and next deadlines, and the sourced story behind each one.
A proposal is not a law, an investigation is not a finding, and a fact sheet is not a working agreement. The status pill says how far each item has come.
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September 2026
- AI companies sign a voluntary White House accordWhite House and AI companiesSigned; text releasedVoluntary accordCopy the link to this entry
Six AI company leaders signed four layers of voluntary checks: internal controls, an internal team, an outside auditor and a board committee. No deadlines or penalties.
Next step The companies are to “meet regularly” to set standards
Published AI accord asks for auditors and board oversight - US–China “Super Intelligence” dialogue and incident channelUnited States and ChinaAgreed on paperInternational agreementCopy the link to this entry
A White House fact sheet lists a new dialogue on AI risks and benefits, with the next talks due by November, and a direct channel for incidents. Neither side has said how the channel will work.
Next step Talks by November 2026
The US and China will set up a channel for AI incidents - UN Security Council meeting on AI risksUN Security CouncilNo resolutionUN meetingCopy the link to this entry
Yoshua Bengio, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Clément Delangue urged countries to work together; Amodei proposed narrow global bans and shared safety tests. No statement or resolution was adopted.
Altman and Amodei warned the UN Security Council of AI risks - Call for global checks on the most powerful AI20 countries and the European CommissionUS did not signInternational declarationCopy the link to this entry
Leaders called for safety tests, shared incident reports and a possible new international AI body. The United States rejected what the White House called a globalist scheme of control.
Twenty countries asked for global checks on powerful AI - Eight priorities for AI in educationEducation ministers at UNESCONon-bindingDeclarationCopy the link to this entry
More than 25 ministers and representatives called for teacher control, age-aware safeguards, data rights and systems that help students think.
Education ministers want AI to aid thinking, not replace it
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