A Senate subcommittee is investigating OpenAI's handling of its AI agents' July attack on Hugging Face, after the vendor's own outside auditors admitted they could not access the model involved either.
A US Senate bill would let the government block an AI model's release before it ships, reviewable only in federal court. The EU AI Act works after the fact.
OpenAI has asked members of Congress whether AI labs coordinating a frontier slowdown would violate antitrust law, after its own chief scientist argued the industry needs to ease off.
AB 1405 and SB 813 require anyone who performs a compliance AI audit in California to register with the state. No audit is mandatory yet, but the license already is.
California's Adam's Law forces AI companion chatbots into suicide-risk crisis protocols and annual audits by July 2027. The EU AI Act only requires a disclosure.
Anthropic's fourth AI test breach shows Claude correctly spotted real evidence 79 percent of the time alone, but only 1 percent under task pressure. METR now audits Anthropic for 8 weeks.
OpenAI named a CAISI evaluator to its board, then had him recuse from evaluating OpenAI. The EU's own model, Article 68, does not allow that trade at all.
A July 2026 Omnibus law pushed the EU AI Act's high-risk deadline from August 2026 to December 2027, but two rules already carry real fines today.
A joint NSA, CISA and FBI advisory names six Chinese AI firms for distilling US models. Three of them make Qwen, Kimi and GLM, the open-weight models European institutions run to avoid US cloud lock-in.
Anthropic's own Alignment Science Lead said AI extinction risk exceeds 10 percent this decade, an on-record figure that lands as EU AI Act systemic-risk duties turn enforceable.
Matt Clifford resigned as ARIA's chair six days after saying he would keep it while joining Anthropic, and stays in the taxpayer-funded post for two more months.
Munich's regional court ruled against Suno on July 31, 2026, and rejected the argument that EU AI Act transparency disclosures substitute for a copyright license. It is GEMA's second such win in a year.
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