Driving the Day

Today is May 9, 2025, and here are the key policymaker and stakeholder actions on AI you need to know: Politico suggested OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stood out yesterday at a senate hearing with other AI industry leaders “for how little appetite he showed for constraining AI.” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed a budget bill requiring tech companies to alert users that their “AI companion chatbots are not human.” Across the pond, at least half of EU member states have yet to signal which oversight body will be nominated as the state’s leading AI regulator under the AI Act, with only three months remaining until the nomination deadline.

In this issue:

• Washington in Focus: A Bloomberg podcast discussed Big Tech’s antitrust moment.

• Around the Nation: Oklahoma’s governor signed a bill to criminalize AI-generated revenge porn.

• Across the Pond: The U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre warned U.K. critical systems face rising threats from AI-driven vulnerabilities.

• Global Highlights: Ghibli-style AI drawings could be breaking Korean copyright law, legal researchers say.

• Outside Views: After scrapping facial recognition for the first version of its AI glasses over ethical concerns, Meta is again “actively working on facial recognition.”

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