Texas Democratic candidate for attorney general Nathan Johnson proposed a plan to review and potentially update state law to protect voters from AI-related harms.

China's State Administration for Market Regulation has launched the 2026 quality-strong-chain top-10 landmark projects and will roll out 166 targeted R&D tasks. The program aims to precisely fill urgent gaps in key fields and strengthen quality support for priority industries, continuing focus on high-end instruments, new energy and industrial robots while expanding into embodied intelligent robots and solid-state power batteries and adding industrial machine tools, drones and advanced synthetic biology manufacturing. Work will coordinate standards, metrology, testing and accreditation across the full quality-infrastructure chain and prioritise strategic, frontier and practical outcomes.

US Treasury Secretary Bessent said he hopes the G20 will return to its core mission, adding the U.S. message is that global growth is the way to address debt and urging other countries to follow suit.