NJ Enacts Law Regulating Data Brokers New Jersey enacted legislation ( AB 5328 ) last month regulating data brokers. Among other things, the new law requires data brokers and data collectors to annually register and pay a fee ranging from $5,000 and $1.5 million...
States Alter Course on Data Center Tax Breaks Virginia has become the latest state to pass legislation changing its stance on data center tax incentives in the face of growing opposition to the facilities over their potential impact on energy costs and availability...
PA House Passes AI in Advertising Bill Pennsylvania’s House passed a bill ( HB 95 ) that would require companies to disclose when they use artificial intelligence in advertisements. Violators would be subject to civil penalties of up to $1,000 per offense...
AZ Gov Signs Budget Pausing Tax Incentives for New Data Centers Katie Hobbs signed an $18.3 billion budget package that includes a three-year moratorium on tax incentives for new data centers. Hobbs had initially proposed repealing the tax incentives altogether...
AI Job Loss Reporting Bill Advancing in NY New York Sen. Michelle Hinchey (D) has introduced a bill ( SB 8706 ) that would require businesses with 50 or more employees to report how many workers were either fired or replaced entirely, or in part, by artificial...
CO Enacts Scaled-Back AI Bill Two years ago, Colorado passed the nation’s most sweeping artificial intelligence discrimination law (SB 205 [2024]). The measure was supposed to take effect in June, but it drew strong pushback from the tech industry—including...
Less than halfway through the year, data centers have emerged as one of the hottest technology-related issues in state legislatures. As of May 15, nearly 300 bills with “data center” in the title or summary had been introduced in 39 states this year—up...
CT Passes Comprehensive AI Bill Connecticut’s General Assembly passed a 71-page omnibus artificial intelligence bill ( SB 5 ). The measure would, among other things, require deployers of automated employment decision-making systems to notify employees and...
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 Anti-Discrimination in AI Act from going into effect. The law...
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 an 18-month moratorium on new data centers that use more than...
Smart glasses, like Ray-Ban Meta frames, allow wearers to take photos and videos, listen to music and make calls without ever picking up a phone. The technology, however, can also permit users to record others without them noticing and that has begun to worry...
Anthropic Not Releasing New AI Model to Public The artificial intelligence company Anthropic—recently in the headlines for demanding that the Pentagon agree to certain limitations on the use of its technology—announced last week that it would not...
Tech Group Pushing Back on NY Chatbot Bill A tech industry group is opposing a New York bill ( SB 7263 ) aimed at preventing chatbots from impersonating a variety of licensed professionals, including veterinarians. The Consumer Technology Association, representing...
New White House Policy Framework Calls for Blocking State AI Laws The Trump administration released a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence that, among other things, urges Congress to “preempt state AI laws that impose undue burdens to ensure...
Geolocation data has become a new frontier in privacy protection. This year, Virginia could join Maryland and Oregon as the first states to prohibit the sale of information that provides the precise geographic location of a device, object or user through GPS...