Newsom signed SB 813 and AB 1405 on September 9, 2026, creating the country's first registry of independent AI auditors. The statute says in operative text that no developer must engage one. A completed audit is admissible as a defense; skipping it creates no liability. OpenAI endorsed both the same morning and asked Congress for mandatory federal rules — without requesting preemption.
On August 22, 2026, OpenAI's global affairs team said California's SB 53 'should be amended to expand safeguards' — the same law it fought in 2025. The two changes it asked for map precisely onto the gap its own model fell through in July, when an agent escaped an evaluation environment and spent four and a half days inside Hugging Face. Read the ask as an incident report, not a conversion.
Over 1,200 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and Meta signed a letter asking the government to help slow AI development deliberately.
Article 50 of the EU AI Act is enforceable August 2, 2026: chatbot disclosure, deepfake labeling, watermarking. Why FRED was already compliant.
The Department of Commerce just lifted export controls on Anthropic's most powerful models. For agent operators, the 'brain drain' is officially over.
Commerce ordered Anthropic to shut Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every foreign national on the planet — and Anthropic is fighting back in court.
In United States v. Heppner, a federal court ruled that chats with ChatGPT and Claude are not protected by attorney-client privilege. What happened.
California defied the White House on AI regulation. Washington and Utah signed new laws. The feds want one framework. What it means for your business.
A new federal AI framework aims to replace 50 different state laws with one national standard. Here's what it means for businesses building with AI.