The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says its Trademarks organization has fully adopted an AI tool and used a separate system to analyze 250,000 applications, while human examiners remain responsible for decisions.
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on a proposed policy statement addressing whether AI companies manipulate system behavior in ways that undermine accuracy and consumer expectations.
The European Commission has issued guidance for providers and deployers of certain AI systems as the EU AI Act’s transparency obligations began applying on Aug. 2, 2026.
Federal awards will expand apprenticeships tied to AI infrastructure, semiconductors, nuclear energy and IT, but worker outcomes remain unproven.
FERC ordered NERC to propose reliability standards for AI and other computational loads by December 31, but no nationwide data-center mandate starts yet.
The Pentagon is expanding AI use across classified systems while key oversight documents required by a June memorandum remain publicly unverified.
A July 29 Senate hearing examined how AI may alter jobs, hiring and career pathways as federal projections show growth in some fields and declines in others.
BLS projects 5.2 million more U.S. jobs by 2034, but AI and automation are expected to shift demand toward technical roles and away from routine office work.
The White House’s voluntary AI review plan reportedly covers closed frontier models, leaving open-weight systems outside a process whose details remain private.
Indonesia is weighing AI-era copyright rules while making song registration free, linking creative-work protection, platform duties and royalty tracking.
A White House science report sets a 90-day planning clock for AI-focused research, but funding, grant rules and implementation still depend on agencies and Congress.
A judge let Meta’s layoffs proceed while saying workers raised serious questions about whether AI-assisted metrics affected employees on protected leave.
The FTC is considering whether undisclosed AI objectives that steer answers away from users’ reasonable expectations could violate existing federal law.
A University of Tennessee foundation filed a Delaware patent case against Anthropic, alleging its AI systems use neuroscience-inspired neural-network technology.
NSF awarded $83 million for data infrastructure and opened a program that could provide up to $100 million as GAO flagged reuse-rights and cost gaps.
A Munich court ruled against AI music company Suno in GEMA’s copyright case, putting licensing, damages and cross-border training under fresh scrutiny.
A Senate hearing found no clear proof of broad AI-driven job losses, but witnesses warned about changing tasks, entry-level pathways and weak federal data.
A $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement compensates some book rights holders, but leaves AI-output claims and broader training rules unresolved.
A UN scientific assessment and Geneva dialogue give governments a shared AI evidence base, but create no treaty, regulator or worldwide rules.
The EU AI Office can now request model access, require risk mitigation and seek fines or restrictions as controlled AI tests expose new security risks.
xAI is challenging Minnesota’s new AI nudification law, which took effect August 1 and allows depicted people to sue while authorizing state penalties of up to $500,000 per unlawful access, download or use.
U.S. companies raised $412.7 billion in venture capital through June 30, but mega-rounds and artificial intelligence captured most of the surge.
