The Global AI Regulation Tracker just turned 3 years old!

And we've hit 70,000 global users 🥹

The "techieray tracker" continues to be the people's favourite, ranking top in organic search results. It's the world's first truly global tracker covering 200+ jurisdictions, monitoring not only legislative milestones but also day-to-day 'street talk' that drive market practice (e.g. minister speeches, regulator interviews, exclusive news, etc).

The tracker's API is also being used by AI governance platforms, AI safety institutes and universities around the world to streamline their regulatory tracking. And the underlying data has been used to create cool visuals, including a "Vibe Meter" dashboard that scores the enforcement culture of each country.

I still update the tracker myself in my own time, posting updates every morning and night. Every single day. For 3 years. Some call me crazy, but I enjoy this daily routine because I learn a lot and it has only gotten easier with new agentic tools.

To mark this anniversary, here are 3 interesting threads since the start of 2026.

1️⃣ The biggest regulatory accelerant of the year turned out to be xAI’s Grok "spicy mode". It triggered simultaneous responses worldwide — communications regulators in the UK, South Korea, India and Southeast Asia; privacy authorities in Canada, Italy and Hong Kong; consumer protection in Brazil; online safety in Australia; criminal prosecution in France. Each narrative reveals how that country fundamentally categorises illegal deepfakes — a data misuse, a consumer harm, a platform failure, or a crime. One product feature, a dozen legal theories!

2️⃣ OpenClaw was the agentic AI moment that Grok was for deepfakes. Hong Kong's PCPD and China's CNCERT issued warnings that Openclaw agents with elevated access rights pose categorically different risks than standard chatbots. France's competition authority launched a formal inquiry into "agentic commerce", asking what happens when AI agents autonomously transact. The UK's FCA launched a long-term review on how agentic systems will reshape retail financial services. The common thread is attribution: the autonomous nature of these systems makes it fundamentally harder to assign legal responsibility when something goes wrong.

3️⃣ Governments are deploying AI to regulate AI (inception!) The UAE announced an AI system as an advisory Cabinet member from 2026. Albania appointed an AI bot as a minister to tackle corruption. South Korea's competition regulator launched an AI-powered team to detect violations, including by AI companies. Kazakhstan built an AI assistant to draft and constitutionality-check legislation. The accountability questions this raises are still largely unasked.

If you've been following my tracker, massive thank you for your support ❤️