Every brief draws on the same fixed list of sources in six tiers. We start with primary documents and use the other tiers for context. When several outlets report the same development, we merge them into one item and do not list it twice.
1. Primary official sources
The documents themselves: statutes, rules, guidance and advisories, straight from the body that issued them.
- EU AI Office
- Federal Register
- Congress.gov
- NIST / CAISI
- FTC
- CISA, NSA and FBI joint advisories
- UK DSIT and AI Security Institute
- California Legislature
- Colorado General Assembly
2. Trackers
Trackers that log bills, rules and national strategies as they move.
- Transparency Coalition
- IAPP AI Governance Center
- OECD.AI Policy Observatory
- NCSL state AI legislation tracker
- AI Governance Institute weekly roundup
3. News and trade press
Reporting that adds context, sourcing and what is happening behind the scenes.
- MLex (paywalled)
- Politico Tech
- Axios Pro Tech Policy
- Reuters
- Financial Times (paywalled)
- Al Jazeera
- Euractiv
- Tech Policy Press
- StateScoop
4. Law firm alerts
Practitioner analysis of obligations, deadlines and enforcement risk.
5. Think tanks and research
Longer analysis, evaluations and policy proposals.
- Stanford HAI
- Brookings
- CSET (Georgetown)
- Center for Democracy & Technology
- Future of Life Institute
- GovAI
- CSA Labs
6. Newsletters and podcasts
Weekly commentary. We include these only when a new issue is out.
- Import AI
- Transformer
- Platformer
- Lawfare (articles and podcast)
- Hard Fork (New York Times)
Editorial rules
- Each item answers who, what, when, where, why it matters and how: the legal or procedural mechanism and its current stage.
- Paywalled sources are marked. We never guess at content we cannot read.
- Open items with no movement that day go under “Still moving / no change”. They are not presented as new.
- If a source returns nothing when something is expected, we say so and do not leave it out without comment.