Civil Law

Illinois Enacts Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act

On July 6, 2026, Illinois Governor, JB Pritzker, signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act (the Act), imposing governance, transparency, audit, and incident-reporting obligations on developers of advanced AI models. The Act focuses on “frontier models” and places the most obligations on “large frontier developers” with annual gross revenues exceeding $ 500 million. The Act takes effect Jan. 1, 2027, with many substantive compliance obligations beginning in 2028. 

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Supreme Court

Justices won’t block Illinois ban on assault-style weapons

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The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon declined to temporarily block an Illinois law that bans the purchase, sale, possession, and manufacture of assault-style weapons. In a brief unsigned order, without any explanation, the justices denied a request to intervene after two lower courts rejected requests to put the law on hold. There were no recorded dissents from Thursday’s order.

The law at the center of the case is known as the Protect Illinois Communities Act (as well as a … Read the rest