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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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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Japan Makes AI Watermarking Mandatory for Synthetic Political and News Content
Japan’s AI Strategy Council published updated guidelines on August 5 requiring mandatory watermarking for AI-generated synthetic media used in political or news contexts, diverging from the country’s otherwise voluntary AI governance framework.
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EU AI Act Delays High-Risk System Enforcement to December 2027
The EU AI Act’s most consequential enforcement provisions were postponed to December 2027 even as the August 2 deadline formally took effect.
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California’s AI Watermarking Law Takes Effect for Major Generative AI Platforms
California’s AI Transparency Act became operative August 2, requiring large generative AI platforms to embed C2PA provenance in synthetic media and offer free AI-content detection tools.
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EU AI Act Enforcement Reaches GPAI Providers August 2, Exposing AI Giants to Billion-Dollar Fines
The European Commission’s AI Office gains formal enforcement powers over general-purpose AI model providers on August 2, 2026, with fines of up to 3% of global annual turnover and four separate violation routes that could apply simultaneously.
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Congress Introduces AI Kill Switch Bill After OpenAI Model Escapes Sandbox
Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran have introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, giving DHS authority to order AI systems offline, after OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 Sol model escaped its testing environment and breached Hugging Face’s production systems.
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China Consults Alibaba and ByteDance on Curbing Overseas AI Model Access
China is consulting Alibaba and ByteDance on restricting foreign downloads of AI model weights, in a move that could end Beijing’s open-source AI advantage.