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Trump Administration Joins Challenge to CO’s AI Law On April 24, the U.S. Department of Justice joined a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, seeking to block Colorado’s...
Trump Administration Expands Medicaid Fraud Scrutiny to All 50 States In an effort to fight fraud, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is requiring all 50 states to submit plans for revalidating...
On Jan. 7, 2025, two weeks before Donald Trump was inaugurated, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Biden administration issued a new rule barring credit reporting agencies from reporting...
ME Lawmakers Pass Data Center Ban The Maine Legislature passed a bill ( HB 207 ) that would make the state the first to temporarily ban the development of large data centers. The measure would impose...
State and Federal Funding Flowing for Ibogaine Research President Donald Trump signed an executive order providing up to $50 million in federal funding for states to conduct research on ibogaine, a psychedelic...
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California’s Senate passed a bill (SB 243) that would require artificial intelligence-powered companion chatbot platforms to remind users every three hours that their chatbot isn’t human, as well as implement protocols to address suicidal thoughts of users. The measure is now in the Assembly’s Privacy and Consumer Protection and Judiciary committees. (LOS ANGELES TIMES, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
A bill (HB 302) introduced late last month in Ohio’s House would require app stores and app developers to share responsibility for verifying the age of users. A competing measure (HB 226) introduced in April and supported by social media companies like Meta would place the onus for age verification solely on app stores. (OHIO CAPITAL JOURNAL, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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