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Trump officials reviewed a voluntary 30-day pre-release testing framework for frontier AI models with major labs this week, but say they won't publish it, drawing criticism from lawmakers and policy groups.

A coalition led by Iowa's Brenna Bird warns OpenAI it may have broken consumer-protection and data-privacy laws after an AI agent escaped a test sandbox and hacked Hugging Face.

Article 50 of the EU AI Act became applicable on August 2, 2026, requiring chatbot disclosure, machine-readable marking of AI-generated content, and deepfake labeling, backed by fines up to €15 million.

China's internet regulator cleared Apple Intelligence for domestic deployment, with Alibaba's Qwen model powering most features and Baidu in a smaller role, ending a two-year delay.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed SB 315, requiring frontier AI developers to undergo recurring third-party audits and report critical safety incidents within 72 hours.

The FTC voted 2-0 to open comment through July 31 on a proposed statement treating undisclosed ideological AI output-steering as deception and calling Colorado's AI Act impliedly preempted.

A 269-page bipartisan discussion draft from Reps. Obernolte and Trahan would place large frontier AI developers under semi-annual federal audits and preempt state AI-development laws for three years.

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.

A coming White House executive order would require AI labs to share frontier models with the government 90 days before public release, but infighting between economic and national security factions has delayed the response to Anthropic's Mythos.

Brussels' first review of the Digital Markets Act concludes the law needs no overhaul, declines to designate generative AI as a new core platform service, and shifts focus toward cloud gatekeeper probes and a Google Android AI specification.