Takeaways

• The enactments of Alabama’s and Oklahoma’s comprehensive privacy legislation are not remarkable in and of themselves. However, the passage of these business-friendly statutes, in contrast with the defeat of Maine’s more aggressive privacy law, points to a trend of deregulatory pressureoccurring at both the U.S. state and federal levels.
• With sectorial regulation remaining robust,

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On March 20, 2026, the Trump Administration released its National AI Legislative Framework, a seven-section policy document covering children’s safety, energy infrastructure, intellectual property, censorship, innovation, workforce development, and federal preemption of state laws. Guided by a vision of “permissionless innovation” and “minimally burdensome” regulation, the framework’s most consequential provision is in Section III, where…

One of the most valuable AI companies in the world may have just accidentally given away one of its crown jewels and immediately turned to copyright law to limit the damage. On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally exposed the source code for Claude Code, one of its most valuable AI products. The company issued Digital…

A status check on the state of artificial intelligence regulation in the U.S.

Takeaways

• Executive Order 14365 has so far not brought any clarity or consistency to U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) regulations.
• No U.S. state AI laws have been challenged or overturned (yet).
• Businesses should be careful about not overcorrecting to early federal pressure on

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