AI Frontier Institute

What AI is doing to work, markets and law

Live, updated 2026-10-26

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Bills that moved

42

status changes, 30 days to Oct 25

▼ 14% vs prior 30 days
01020Jul 29Aug 28Sep 27Oct 26

New bills we started tracking

339

bills, 30 days to Oct 25

▼ 60% vs prior 30 days
060120Jul 29Aug 28Sep 27Oct 26

Research and press added

2,112

items, 30 days to Oct 20

▲ 10% vs prior 30 days
090180Jul 29Aug 28Sep 27Oct 26
About Research and press added

On 2026-09-24 the tracker added 19 news sources, including government and civil-society feeds, so counts after that date are not directly comparable with earlier weeks.

daily count7-day average30-day average, each windowlast 30 days

Jurisdictions with published items

48 of 51

2 more tracked and in review

Laws enacted this year

129

state laws in 2026, 32 states; October so far: 1

Federal actions

21

21 tracked, 1 published

last 90 days

About Federal actions

Policy items publish only after a person approves them or an automatic model check passes, so "published" is the smaller number by design.

Outlook by source type

  • academia8%
  • industrytoo few items
  • presstoo few items

Research and press, last 30 days

Labels assigned by a model, not yet checked against people

Policy map

Where AI bills are, by topic

48 jurisdictions have published items. 2 more are tracked and in review.

Alaska: 3 published items; 3 in committeeMaine: 7 published items; 4 enacted, 3 failedVermont: 15 published items; 13 in committee, 2 enactedNew Hampshire: 3 published items; 2 engrossed, 1 in committeeWashington: 11 published items; 6 in committee, 3 enacted, 2 engrossedIdaho: 4 published items; 3 enacted, 1 engrossedMontana: 3 published items; 3 enactedNorth Dakota: 2 published items; 2 enactedMinnesota: 23 published items; 23 in committeeIllinois: 78 published items; 67 in committee, 6 engrossed, 5 enactedWisconsin: 2 published items; 2 failedMichigan: 11 published items; 10 in committee, 1 engrossedNew York: 66 published items; 61 in committee, 5 engrossedRhode Island: 9 published items; 5 in committee, 3 enacted, 1 engrossedMassachusetts: 11 published items; 11 in committeeOregon: 4 published items; 2 enacted, 2 failedNevada: 5 published items; 3 enacted, 2 failedWyoming: 2 published items; 1 enacted, 1 failedSouth Dakota: 5 tracked, in review; none published yetIowa: 10 published items; 10 in committeeIndiana: 2 published items; 2 in committeeOhio: 18 published items; 16 introduced, 1 engrossed, 1 in committeePennsylvania: 31 published items; 27 in committee, 2 enacted, 2 engrossedNew Jersey: 28 published items; 27 in committee, 1 enactedConnecticut: 7 published items; 4 in committee, 3 enactedCalifornia: 43 published items; 20 enacted, 12 engrossed, 5 vetoed, 4 in committee, 2 failedUtah: 3 published items; 3 enactedColorado: 8 published items; 4 enacted, 2 failed, 1 superseded, 1 vetoedNebraska: 3 published items; 1 enacted, 1 failed, 1 in committeeMissouri: 2 published items; 1 engrossed, 1 in committeeKentucky: 8 published items; 5 in committee, 2 engrossed, 1 enactedWest Virginia: 5 tracked, in review; none published yetVirginia: 24 published items; 17 in committee, 5 enacted, 2 engrossedMaryland: 16 published items; 9 in committee, 5 enacted, 2 engrossedDelaware: 4 published items; 2 enacted, 1 engrossed, 1 introducedArizona: 10 published items; 3 introduced, 3 vetoed, 2 engrossed, 2 in committeeNew Mexico: 5 published items; 5 introducedKansas: 4 published items; 3 in committee, 1 enactedArkansas: nothing tracked yetTennessee: 13 published items; 8 enacted, 4 introduced, 1 engrossedNorth Carolina: 9 published items; 9 in committeeSouth Carolina: 8 published items; 5 in committee, 2 engrossed, 1 enactedDistrict of Columbia: 4 published items; 4 in committeeOklahoma: 4 published items; 2 in committee, 1 enacted, 1 engrossedLouisiana: 15 published items; 9 in committee, 6 enactedMississippi: 11 published items; 10 failed, 1 enactedAlabama: 11 published items; 8 in committee, 3 enactedGeorgia: 19 published items; 9 introduced, 5 in committee, 4 enacted, 1 engrossedHawaii: 43 published items; 32 in committee, 6 engrossed, 5 enactedTexas: 10 published items; 6 in committee, 2 enacted, 2 engrossedFlorida: 10 published items; 10 failed
  • Has published items48 jurisdictions
  • Tracked, in review2 jurisdictions
  • Nothing tracked yet1 jurisdictions

Shading shows whether the tracker has published items for a jurisdiction. It does not show how much AI activity happens there, and it is not a rating of the state.

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AI media sentiment

CONCERNEDPOSITIVE
8%positive

Trending more concerned

  • Concerned 24%
  • Ambivalent 68%
  • Positive 8%

Published research and press

Labels assigned by a model, not yet checked against people

About AI media sentiment

Last 30 days

747 items that take a position

This reads what the tracker collected, not what the field thinks. Changes to what we collect are marked on the Pulse timeline.

Outlook labels are assigned by a model and have not yet been checked against human labels.

On 2026-09-24 the tracker added 19 news sources, including government and civil-society feeds, so counts after that date are not directly comparable with earlier weeks.

Trending topics

  • Algorithms & Automated Decisions▲
  • Quality assurance▼
  • AI policy▼
  • Enterprise▼
  • Health
  • Privacy & Data Protection▲
  • Education
  • Safety & Harms▲
  • Workforce▼
  • Public Sector Use
  • Certifications▼
  • National Security & Defense
  • Copyright & Creative Work
  • Competition & Antitrust
  • Elections & Democracy
  • Energy & Data Centers

Share of published items per impact area, last 4 complete weeks against the 4 before

Labels assigned by a model, not yet checked against people

About Trending topics

An arrow appears only when an area's share moved at least 3 points, both four-week windows average at least 30 items a week, and all eight weeks have data.

A week with no tagged items at all is no data. Inside a week with data, an area with no items reads 0%.

Buzzing now

most status changes, 14 days

Trending in the media

Stories have not been grouped yet.

Stories grouped by a model

About Trending in the media

Stories are grouped by a model from the tracker's news feeds, then ranked by how many independent outlets covered them in the window.

Outlets are press, government, civil society and academic sources. Company and lab blogs stay in a story's articles but never count as outlets, so a vendor's own announcement never reads as independent coverage.

Each story links to the first outlet article that reported it.

The section switches on once 10 stories in the last 30 days have two or more outlets.

Assurance

What independent testers found when they tried US AI models on business work

8 tasks, 27 sources, 43 models with figures

Last checked 2026-10-23

Policy

Latest policy

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1508 tracked, 653 published.

Policy items publish only after a person approves them or an automatic model check passes, so "published" is the smaller number by design.

Research

Latest research

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News

Latest news

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