Executive Summary Four states now restrict specified forms of algorithmic and coordinated rent pricing: New York effective December 15, 2025, California and Connecticut January 1, 2026, and New Jersey July 1, 2027. These are not blanket bans on software or machine learning in rent setting. They target tools that pool or coordinate data across unaffiliated…
Executive Summary AI related lawyer duties are increasingly enforced through existing ethics rules and court sanctions authority. New York added a statewide court rule, 22 NYCRR Part 161, adopted March 25, 2026 and effective June 1, 2026 across the Unified Court System. Alabama issued Formal Opinion 2026-01, among the most operationally detailed state bar AI…
Executive Summary The SEC Division of Examinations published its fiscal year 2026 priorities on November 17, 2025. Examiners will assess whether advisers have policies and procedures adequate to monitor and supervise their AI use, and will review the accuracy of what firms say about their AI capabilities. A Charles Schwab study published January 22, 2026…
Executive Summary Colorado SB 24-205, the law every HR vendor told you to prepare for, was enacted in 2024 but never became operative. Its compliance date slipped from February 1, 2026 to June 30, 2026, a federal court stayed enforcement on April 27, 2026, and the legislature repealed and reenacted the framework before any obligation…
Executive Summary The patient facing chatbot your practice added to its website is no longer governed by HIPAA alone. Three separate layers of law now reach it: HIPAA, the Federal Trade Commission, and a fast growing set of state statutes that regulate conversational AI directly. Tennessee’s restriction on AI systems representing themselves as qualified mental…
Executive Summary Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the Digital Omnibus on AI, was published in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026 and entered into force on 27 July 2026. It delayed the high risk obligations of the EU AI Act. It did not delay the transparency obligations in Article 50. Article 50 still applies from 2…
Executive Summary The federal AI procurement landscape changed dramatically in 2025 and 2026. Four major instruments now reshape what small primes and subcontractors must do: Executive Order 14275, OMB Memorandum M-25-22, draft clause GSAR 552.239-7001, and FAR Case 2023-008. The FY26 NDAA delivered real cost relief. The certified cost or pricing data threshold rises from…
Executive Summary On July 6, 2026, Illinois enacted SB 315, becoming the first state to require annual independent third party audits of the largest AI developers. It applies only to large frontier developers earning over $500 million a year. If your business uses AI tools, it does not apply to you directly. It still matters….
