Brussels and 24 national market surveillance authorities launched the EU AI Act’s first scheduled compliance inspections in September 2026, auditing automated hiring tools, credit algorithms and medical triage systems in France, Germany and Spain.
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Jayapal Calls for a Federal Charter System for AI Companies, Modeled on Banks
Rep. Pramila Jayapal previewed a bill that would require large AI companies to obtain a federal charter to operate, modeled on bank licensing, while opposing an antitrust waiver sought by the industry.
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UBTECH Opens China’s First Humanoid Robot Factory, Building One Every Ten Minutes
Chinese robotics firm UBTECH launched a 14,000-square-metre facility in Liuzhou capable of producing 10,000 humanoid robots annually, as China accounts for 97% of global humanoid shipments in the first half of 2026.
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FTC Chair Warns AI Labs Seeking Antitrust Immunity Are Rigging the Market
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson told Georgetown University on September 15 that AI companies seeking antitrust exemptions while lobbying for new regulations should trigger deep suspicion.
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OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Are Quietly Building a Joint AI Standards Body
The three frontier AI labs have held working-group meetings since July, modelling a proposed self-regulatory body on FINRA that would test models before deployment.
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Amodei Calls for Slower AI Frontier as Two Safety Researchers Resign to Join METR
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a call to deliberately pace frontier AI development on September 12, the same day two senior safety researchers from Anthropic and Google DeepMind resigned to join independent evaluator METR.
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Mistral Closes Europe’s Largest-Ever Tech Round at €21 Billion Valuation
The Paris-based AI lab raised €3 billion in a Samsung-led Series D — the largest equity fundraise ever completed by a European technology company — to fund data centre ownership and global expansion.
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California Becomes First US State to Mandate Third-Party Audits of AI Systems
Governor Newsom signed SB 813 and AB 1405 on September 9, creating a state registry for AI auditors and an accreditation framework for independent verification — the first such statutory requirements in the United States.
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DOJ Probes Whether Nvidia Structured Groq Deal to Sidestep Antitrust Review
The Justice Department has sent Nvidia a formal demand for information examining whether its December 2025 licensing arrangement with AI chip startup Groq was structured to bypass automatic antitrust review.
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Qualcomm Offers Amazon a $4 Billion Warrant in $60 Billion AI Chip Deal
Qualcomm issued Amazon warrants for 25 million shares at $161.26 per share, part of a $60 billion AI chip supply deal targeting AWS inference infrastructure.