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US Clears Nvidia H200 Sales to Ten Chinese Firms With 25% Revenue Cut, But Beijing Tells Buyers to Stand Down
Washington has licensed Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, JD.com and distributors Lenovo and Foxconn to buy up to 75,000 H200s each. Not one chip has shipped — Beijing is pushing buyers toward Huawei.
Colorado Governor Polis Signs SB 26-189, Repealing and Replacing the 2024 Colorado AI Act With a Narrower Disclosure Regime
Polis signed SB 26-189 on May 14, repealing the duty of care, impact assessments, and risk management mandates of SB 24-205 in favor of an ADMT notice-and-explain regime taking effect January 1, 2027.
FDA Opens Docket FDA-2026-N-4492 Soliciting Drug Repurposing Candidates for Metabolic, Neurodegenerative and Rare Diseases
The agency is asking patients, clinicians and researchers to nominate FDA-approved drugs that could be relabeled for new indications, including those backed by case reports or AI-generated preclinical evidence.
EU Commission Declares DMA Fit for Purpose in First Statutory Review and Pivots Enforcement Toward AI and Cloud
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.
CAISI Signs Frontier AI Testing Agreements With Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI, Extending Pre-Deployment Reviews Beyond Anthropic and OpenAI
The Commerce Department's AI standards center will evaluate the three labs' frontier models in classified environments before public release, expanding a program that began with Anthropic and OpenAI in 2024.
Minnesota Senate Passes HF 1606 65-0, Sending Civil Ban on AI 'Nudification' Apps to Gov. Tim Walz
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.
Target Rewrites Its Terms So Customers Eat the Cost When the Gemini Shopping Agent Buys the Wrong Thing
Target updated its consumer terms to treat any purchase placed by an Agentic Commerce Agent as a transaction "authorized by you," shifting AI mistake liability to shoppers ahead of its Gemini-powered checkout launch.
Maryland Becomes First US State to Ban Grocery Surveillance Pricing, but Loopholes and a 45-Day Cure Period Test the Model
Governor Wes Moore signed HB 895 on April 28, prohibiting large food retailers and delivery apps from using personal data to set individualized prices, but consumer advocates say loopholes and a 45-day cure period weaken the bill.
FTC and Eight States Settle With WPP, Publicis, and Dentsu Over Alleged Brand Safety Collusion, Ending the Industry's Coordinated Misinformation Floor
The Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of eight states secured a proposed consent order banning the three holding companies from coordinating brand safety standards or maintaining shared exclusion lists.
CMS and FDA Launch RAPID Coverage Pathway, Compressing Medicare Reimbursement for Breakthrough Devices From a Year to Two Months
A new joint program from FDA and CMS would issue a proposed Medicare coverage decision the same day a breakthrough device wins FDA authorization, aiming to cut total time-to-coverage from roughly a year or more to about two months.
Massachusetts Becomes First State High Court to Rule Section 230 Does Not Shield Social Media Design Choices
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled April 10 that Section 230 does not bar Attorney General Andrea Campbell's lawsuit against Meta over Instagram's addictive design, the first such ruling by any state's highest court.
Tennessee Bans AI From Posing as a Mental Health Professional, Joining a Widening State Crackdown on Therapy Chatbots
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed SB 1580 on April 1, making it the latest state to outlaw AI systems claiming to act as qualified mental health professionals. With Maine and Nebraska following days later, the wave of state laws is hardening into a de facto national standard for AI in therapy.