The UK Competition and Markets Authority opened the first Strategic Market Status investigation under the DMCC Act 2024 on 14 May 2026, examining whether Microsoft’s bundling of Teams, Windows, and Copilot suppresses competition.
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Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman in first state lawsuit over AI safety
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed an 83-page complaint against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on June 1, alleging ChatGPT aided mass shooters, encouraged suicide, and addicted minors.
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Colorado guts its AI law weeks before it was due to take effect
Colorado revised its AI Act on May 14, stripping risk-management mandates and delaying enforcement to January 2027, replacing them with a narrower notice-and-transparency model.
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Big AI uses Big Tobacco tactics to capture regulation, new study finds
A peer-reviewed study by Edinburgh, TU Delft, CMU and Trinity College catalogues 249 cases of AI firms using Big Tobacco-style tactics to shape regulation.
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Google I/O 2026 opens with Gemini Omni, Android XR glasses and an AI laptop
Google opened I/O 2026 on May 19 with Gemini Omni, the agentic Gemini Spark layer for Android 17, and the first public preview of Android XR smart glasses.
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EU Parliament delays AI Act high-risk rules to December 2027
EU Parliament voted to delay AI Act high-risk system rules until December 2027, while backing a ban on nudifier AI systems in a broader simplification package.
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Paul Tudor Jones says the US is dangerously late to regulate AI
The hedge fund founder told CNBC on May 7 that Washington’s failure to establish governance frameworks while AI deployment accelerates is a ‘governance gap’ that could produce risks society is not prepared for — framing AI oversight as a financial stability concern, not just a civil liberties one.