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Debian has opened a General Resolution with four competing proposals on AI-assisted contributions, from an outright ban to conditional acceptance, with no vote date set yet.

OpenAI began a limited preview of its GPT-5.6 models — Sol, Terra, and Luna — restricting access to a small group of government-approved partners at the request of the US government.

The 6-3 ruling lets presidents fire FTC commissioners at will, reshaping the agency that leads U.S. privacy and AI enforcement.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick cleared Anthropic to redeploy its most capable cybersecurity model to select US companies and agencies, weeks after an export directive forced it offline. Fable 5 stays restricted.

A Center for Democracy & Technology study built a taxonomy of 37 manipulative design patterns it found across major AI chatbots and companion apps.

The European Parliament and Council reached a provisional political agreement on May 7 to simplify the AI Act, shifting key compliance deadlines and adding a new ban on nonconsensual intimate imagery.

Overnight lobbying by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and David Sacks persuaded President Trump to cancel a planned executive order that would have let federal agencies preview frontier AI models up to 90 days before release.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 22-0 to advance the GUARD Act, which would ban AI companion chatbots for users under 18 and impose penalties of up to $250,000 per violation.

The four-year commitment — described as the largest deal of its kind between an AI company and a global philanthropy — targets health services for 4.6 billion people in low-income countries.

Minnesota's HF 1606 cleared the state Senate 65-0 after a 132-1 House vote, sending an AI 'nudification' app ban to Gov. Tim Walz with $500,000 civil penalties and a private right of action.

Sam Altman published a five-principle framework for OpenAI on April 26, dropping the 2018 charter's pledge to step aside for a safer competitor and reframing the company as AI infrastructure for humanity, just before jury selection in Elon Musk's $134 billion lawsuit.

Four months before the EU AI Act's core provisions take effect, the European Commission's public register shows that only eight of 27 member states have designated the national authorities required to enforce it.