On April 7, 2026, the Turkish Competition Authority (Rekabet Kurumu, "TCA") announced a comprehensive sector inquiry into the artificial intelligence ecosystem. The Competition Board initiated the inquiry under Article 43 et seq. of Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition, which authorizes sector inquiries into industries where competitive conditions may be impaired. No investigation has been opened against specific undertakings, and no findings have been published at t

On April 15, 2026, the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) published a guidance document titled "Agentic Artificial Intelligence (Agentic AI)" on its official website. The document is not a binding regulation under Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data, but represents the DPA's formal position on how existing data protection obligations apply to agentic AI systems. The publication has no prior consultation period and constitutes soft-law guidance curre

On March 18, 2026, the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), and the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) jointly published a Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, together with an accompanying Impact Assessment. The Report was published as a policy paper under Sections 135 and 136 of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, which mandated government analysis of the use of copyright works in AI dev

On March 24, 2026, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael S. Selig announced the formation of the Innovation Task Force (ITF), a new internal body dedicated to developing regulatory clarity for three sectors: crypto assets and blockchain technologies, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, and prediction markets and event contracts. On April 10, 2026, Chairman Selig announced the ITF's initial staff members. The ITF operates in an advisory and coordina

On February 26, 2026, the European Securities and Markets Authority published a supervisory briefing titled "Supervisory briefing on algorithmic trading in the EU," reference ESMA74-1505669079-10311. This document is directed at national competent authorities to promote consistent supervisory practices across EU member states. It addresses algorithmic trading under MiFID II and covers the emerging application of artificial intelligence in trading systems. It is effective as o

On March 31, 2026, the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) published a report on the use of automated decision-making (ADM) in recruitment, accompanied by draft guidance addressed to employers. The action is at the report and draft guidance stage; the guidance is open for stakeholder input and no enforcement notices have been issued. The ICO simultaneously wrote to 16 named organisations likely to be using ADM in hiring decisions, and those organisations have committed

On March 26, 2026, the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) voted in joint session to adopt a report proposing an amendment to the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) that would extend the application deadlines for obligations applicable to high-risk AI systems. The vote passed 569 votes in favour and 45 against. The proposal extends the ap

On March 19, 2026, the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) published an update to its ongoing consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, launched in December 2024. The March 2026 document sets out the Government's assessment of responses received and presents a preferred policy position on three issues: the application of the text and data mining (TDM) copyright exception to AI training, transparency obligations on AI developers regarding t

On March 20, 2026, the White House published the Trump Administration's National AI Legislative Framework, a document setting out the Administration's priorities for federal artificial intelligence legislation. The Framework identifies six core legislative objectives: preempting conflicting state AI laws to create a uniform national standard, establishing a single federal AI oversight authority, prohibiting federal agencies from imposing AI mandates without express Congressio

On March 20, 2026, the Trump Administration's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a National AI Legislative Framework — a set of non-binding legislative recommendations addressed to Congress. The document is in proposal form and does not carry the force of law. It represents the administration's legislative agenda for AI governance and requests that Congress enact corresponding statutes. Both Houses of Congress are expected to receive the framework as a ba

The United States Supreme Court denied certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter on 24 March 2026, leaving in place the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The D.C. Circuit had affirmed the decision of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, which upheld the Copyright Office's refusal to register a copyright in a visual artwork generated autonomously by an artificial intelligence system called DABUS. The petitio

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) published a statutory report and impact assessment on copyright and artificial intelligence on 18 March 2026. The publication was required under sections 135 and 136 of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025. In it, the UK government confirmed that it will not proceed with the previously preferred approach of an opt-out mechanism that would have allowed rights holders to exclude their works from AI training data. The re

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published its guidance titled "Complying with consumer law when using AI agents" on 9 March 2026. The guidance is a final, effective publication directed at businesses that deploy agentic AI systems to interact with consumers, process orders, or handle complaints. It does not amend existing statute; it interprets the CMA's existing consumer protection enforcement priorities. The guidance applies immediately and is addressed to all b

Article 50 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council — the EU Artificial Intelligence Act — enters into application on August 2, 2026, governing transparency obligations for AI systems that interact with natural persons and for AI-generated content. The provision is directly applicable in all EU Member States and requires deployers and providers of specific AI systems to disclose to users that they are interacting with an AI system, and requir

On 23 February 2026, EDPB Chair Anu Talus signed a Joint Statement on AI-Generated Imagery and the Protection of Privacy on behalf of the European Data Protection Board. The statement was coordinated by the Global Privacy Assembly's International Enforcement Cooperation Working Group and represents the agreed position of 61 data protection and privacy authorities across the world. The statement is final and published; it does not require transposition or legislative implement

On March 20, 2026, the Trump Administration published a document titled "A National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence: Legislative Recommendations" (the Framework). The White House released the Framework as a policy paper, not a statute or regulation. It sets out legislative recommendations that the Administration intends to transmit to Congress for enactment. The Framework is at the pre-legislative stage and carries no binding legal force until Congress acts. The

The UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Intellectual Property Office jointly published the "Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence" on March 18, 2026. The report was published under Sections 135 and 136 of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (the "DUA Act"). The report examines the use of copyright works in the development of AI systems, including training data practices, and sets out the government's anal

The European Commission adopted the Omnibus I legislative proposal on November 19, 2025 as part of its Digital Package on Simplification. The proposal amends the AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) to reduce compliance burdens on AI developers, deployers, and providers of general-purpose AI models. The European Parliament and the Council of the EU are now negotiating the Omnibus proposal. The package is at the proposal stage and has not yet entered into force. The Omnibus prop

The Danish Parliament (Folketing) adopted Bill L 154 on May 8, 2025, by a vote of 109 to 0, enacting Denmark's Law No. 467 of May 14, 2025, on supplementary provisions to the regulation on artificial intelligence (Lov om supplerende bestemmelser til forordningen om kunstig intelligens). The law entered into force on August 2, 2025, in Denmark proper; it does not apply to the Faroe Islands or Greenland. This makes Denmark one of the first EU Member States to complete the desig

The United States Senate passed H.R.1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, on July 1, 2025, by a vote of 51 to 50, with Vice President J.D. Vance casting the tie-breaking vote. The enrolled bill reached President Trump's desk and was signed into law on July 4, 2025, as Public Law No. 119-21. Before final passage, the Senate adopted an amendment by Senator Marsha Blackburn that struck a provision from the House-passed version which would have imposed a ten-year moratorium on state