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Policy TrackerPolicy Tracker NoteUnited Kingdom

UK healthcare AI Commission response and AI Airlock Phase 3

Government policy response / sectoral regulatory implementation — not enacted legislation. On 6 October 2026 the government accepted all 44 recommendations of the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare. MHRA opened AI Airlock Phase 3 applications, focusing on post-market surveillance and lifecycle oversight for AI-enabled medical devices. These are implementation commitments and sandbox activity, not a newly enacted law.

2026-10-06

Policy TrackerPolicy Tracker NoteEuropean Union

Draft Commission guidelines on high-risk AI classification

European Union. Draft non-binding guidance — not final as of 2026-10-03. The official high-risk classification page continues to describe draft guidelines. This is separate from the final Article 50 transparency guidelines.

2026-10-03

IntelligencePublicationGlobal

Salesforce and Agentforce case study

An evidence-based case study of how Salesforce deployed Agentforce in customer support, redesigned human work, redeployed and reskilled employees, and reduced support staffing requirements without a simple one-to-one story of AI-driven layoffs.

10/2/2026

Policy TrackerPolicy Tracker NoteJapan

Government AI “Gennai” — public-sector implementation programme

Japan. Public-sector implementation and capacity signal — not legislation. The official page, updated on 2026-09-30, describes an FY2026 demonstration targeting approximately 180,000 central-government personnel, evaluation of benefits and challenges ahead of wider FY2027 deployment, and a dashboard to visualize government use. This is implementation of Japan’s promotion-led model, not a new enterprise AI law.

2026-09-30

Policy TrackerPolicy Tracker NoteOther

OAIC automated-decision transparency guidance — September 2026

Australia. Regulator guidance — supporting an enacted future requirement, not a new Act. The Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 enacted APP privacy-policy transparency requirements commencing 2026-12-10. They apply where an APP entity arranges for a computer program to make, or do something substantially and directly related to making, a decision that could reasonably significantly affect an individual’s rights or interests, and uses personal information about that individual in the program. As of 2026-10-03 these requirements are enacted but not yet applicable.

2026-09-30

Policy TrackerPolicy Tracker NoteUnited States

Executive Order 14434 — Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence

United States. Executive order — executive-branch direction within lawful authority. To the maximum extent permitted by law, departments and agencies must use “Super Intelligence” / “SI” in specified non-statutory executive-branch materials. Previously issued regulations, Presidential actions, contracts, grants and historical documents need not be altered. For this order SI incorporates the existing AI definition in 15 U.S.C. § 9401(3); Congress has not changed that statutory definition. This is not a new horizontal enterprise AI statute.

2026-09-29

Policy TrackerPolicy Tracker NoteChina

GB/T 45288.5-2026 — Multimodal large-scale model

China. Recommended national standard — non-mandatory; effective 2027-01-01. Provides a technical reference for multimodal large models. This GB/T recommended standard or GB/Z guiding technical document is not automatically a mandatory legal obligation; any binding incorporation must be assessed separately.

2026-09-28

Policy TrackerPolicy Tracker NoteChina

GB/T 48324-2026 — Technical requirements for large-scale model systems of government

China. Recommended national standard — non-mandatory; effective 2027-04-01. Provides a technical reference for government large-model systems. This GB/T recommended standard or GB/Z guiding technical document is not automatically a mandatory legal obligation; any binding incorporation must be assessed separately.

2026-09-28

Policy TrackerPolicy Tracker NoteUnited States

NIST ARIA Evaluation Planning Manual

United States. Official technical / evaluation guidance — non-binding. ARIA-style evaluation planning combines model testing, red teaming and user testing. The manual is an official evaluation methodology, not binding federal AI law.

2026-09-18

Policy TrackerPolicy Tracker NoteChina

Artificial Intelligence Safety Governance Framework 3.0

China. Official governance framework — non-binding guidance, not law. Updates AI safety-risk classification and technical and comprehensive governance responses, retaining the risk classification — technical response — comprehensive governance logic.

2026-09-14

Policy TrackerPolicy Tracker NoteOther

Government of Canada AI Register — transparency implementation

Canada. Public-sector transparency implementation / consultation report — non-binding. The 2026-09-11 What We Heard consultation report records feedback on the MVP AI Register. Treasury Board says it will use the feedback to develop an improved version replacing the MVP and updated regularly. The report is a non-binding public-service transparency implementation signal, not private-sector AI legislation.

2026-09-11

Policy TrackerPolicy Tracker NoteUnited Kingdom

DSIT AI Risk Management Toolkit

United Kingdom. Official government guidance / risk-management toolkit — non-binding. Supports people designing, operating, procuring or delivering AI-enabled products. It is a practical government risk-management reference, not regulation or a new statutory duty.

2026-09-08

Policy TrackerPolicy Tracker NoteSingapore

IMDA Transparency Guidelines for Generative AI Chatbots — voluntary baseline

Singapore. Voluntary guidance; official policy clarification, not new regulation. MDDI’s 2026-09-08 parliamentary response confirms that IMDA’s Transparency Guidelines for Generative AI Chatbots are a voluntary baseline. Consideration of stronger requirements for sensitive uses depends on deployment context, potential harms and effectiveness of existing measures. The response is policy clarification, not a new rule or mandatory horizontal AI regime.

2026-09-08

Policy TrackerPolicy Tracker NoteKorea

AI Basic Act Enforcement Decree — high-impact AI implementation

South Korea. Binding Presidential Decree / subordinate legislation. Binding Presidential Decree, current version in force from 2026-08-20. Article 25 permits a business to request high-impact AI classification confirmation from the Minister of Science and ICT, submitting the product/service overview, development/training-data overview, materials demonstrating use process/results and other relevant documents. This confirmation procedure is distinct from Article 23 transparency, Article 27 high-impact business duties and Article 28 impact-assessment provisions.

2026-08-18

Policy TrackerPolicy Tracker NoteEuropean Union

AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations and final guidance

European Union. Binding AI Act obligations + final non-binding Commission guidance. Article 50 generally applies from 2026-08-02. For systems placed on the market before that date, only the Article 50(2) marking/detection obligation has the limited transition to 2026-12-02.

2026-07-20

Policy TrackerPolicy Tracker NoteEuropean Union

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1755

European Union. Binding implementing regulation — in force and directly applicable from 2026-08-10. Published in the Official Journal on 2026-07-21, the regulation establishes detailed arrangements for certain Commission proceedings under the AI Act, including procedures connected to Articles 92 and 101 and general-purpose AI evaluation and enforcement. It is legislation, not guidance.

2026-07-20

IntelligenceAdvisory NoteUnited States

What OpenAI, GitLab, Gartner and the EU AI Act Reveal About the Next Enterprise AI Bottleneck

Recent signals from OpenAI, GitLab, Gartner, and the European Commission suggest that enterprise AI adoption is entering a new phase. The challenge is no longer simply whether organizations can access powerful AI tools, but whether they can redesign workflows, govern agents, prepare semantic infrastructure, and operationalize transparency requirements.

May 13, 2026

Policy TrackerPublicationGlobal

From Classroom Readiness to Workforce Readiness

A flagship policy brief arguing that AI education, assessment, governance, and workforce transformation should not be treated as separate debates, but as one institutional transition sequence connecting classrooms, learning systems, and the future of work.

4/24/2026

Policy TrackerCountry Governance ProfileGlobal

AI in Education Policy: What Five Countries Reveal About Readiness, Inclusion and Implementation

Artificial intelligence is entering classrooms faster than many education systems can decide whether they are ready for it — or how it should be used. That makes AI in education not only a technology …

March 28, 2026

Policy TrackerPolicy Tracker NoteOther

Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 — automated-decision transparency

Australia. Enacted statutory requirement — not yet applicable as of 2026-10-03. The Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 enacted APP privacy-policy transparency requirements commencing 2026-12-10. They apply where an APP entity arranges for a computer program to make, or do something substantially and directly related to making, a decision that could reasonably significantly affect an individual’s rights or interests, and uses personal information about that individual in the program. As of 2026-10-03 these requirements are enacted but not yet applicable.

2024-12-10