AI regulation
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Spain Is Moving to Ban Teenagers from Social Media While Making Executives Personally Liable for Hate Speech
Madrid is advancing the most aggressive digital regulation in Europe, personally targeting platform leadership at a moment when Elon Musk is fighting back -- and when the EU's Digital Fairness Act is still being written.
Colorado Rewrites Its AI Law. Congress Is About to Overwrite All of Them.
After two years and a lawsuit from Elon Musk, Colorado passed a weaker AI accountability law. A House Republican bill would nullify it before it takes effect.
OpenAI Buys Its Way Into Europe While Anthropic Waits
GPT-5.5-Cyber is now free to EU defenders. Anthropic's Mythos is not. This is not a cybersecurity story.
Europe Just Gutted Its Own AI Law. Industry Called It 'Not Enough.'
The EU delayed its flagship AI regulations by 18 months, exempted industrial AI entirely, and banned nudification apps. Tech lobbyists and US officials wanted more. Centrist lawmakers agreed.
Europe Just Blinked on AI Regulation
The EU's landmark AI Act has been watered down, delayed, and rebranded as a competitiveness measure. The question is whether that was the plan all along.
Germany Is Gutting the EU AI Act. Siemens and Bosch Are Watching.
Berlin secured an industrial machinery exemption that rewrites the law's core premise: that AI rules should apply to all sectors equally.
The Government Will Test Your AI Before You Get It. The Companies Volunteered.
NIST signed testing agreements with Google, Microsoft, and xAI. The trigger was Anthropic's Mythos. The structure rewards the compliant and punishes no one.
Google, Microsoft, and xAI Volunteered to Let the Government Watch Them
The three biggest players in frontier AI agreed to pre-release government review just as Washington debates making it mandatory. The companies that stayed out are the ones who already got excluded.
The EU AI Act Talks Collapsed. The Deadline They Were Trying to Move Did Not.
Negotiators failed to agree on a delay. High-risk AI compliance is still due August 2. The failure is not a stalemate; it is an accidental victory for the hardliners.
EU Lawmakers Tried to Delay Their AI Law. They Couldn't Agree How. The Deadline Is Still August 2.
The trilogue that was supposed to give AI companies until 2027 to comply collapsed over machinery regulations. Every high-risk AI system in Europe now has 94 days to meet rules most deployers haven't read.
The Federal Government Just Told States They Cannot Regulate AI Bias
The DOJ's decision to join xAI's suit against Colorado isn't about Musk. It's a constitutional claim that anti-discrimination mandates in AI are themselves unconstitutional discrimination.
The EU AI Act Open-Source Exemption Exempts Almost Nothing
Full enforcement kicks in August 2, 2026. The April 10 Commission clarification that made headlines as a win for open-source developers leaves copyright policies, training-data summaries, and all frontier models fully in scope.
Trump Wants a Single AI Law for All 50 States. He's Lost the Senate 99 to 1.
The White House's National AI Framework asks Congress to preempt every state AI law in America. States have enacted 145 laws and introduced 1,208 more. Congress stripped the preemption provision from the big bill 99-1.
The EU's AI Hiring Rules Go Live in 105 Days. Most Companies Have Never Audited Their AI. That's About to Become Very Expensive.
August 2 is the deadline for mandatory AI hiring bias audits under the EU AI Act. The auditors don't exist yet and the companies aren't ready.
Trump Is Trying to Kill 1,000 State AI Bills. The States Are Not Listening.
The White House wants one federal standard for AI. States are passing laws anyway. A Utah Republican who used to work at Google is running for senate on defying his own party's president.
The Law That Cannot Enforce Itself
The EU AI Act has been in force for two years. Not a single enforcement action has been taken against a deployed high-risk system. The systems it was designed to govern are still expanding.
OpenAI Wants Immunity. Anthropic Wants Accountability. One AI Bill Will Decide Which Vision Wins.
Illinois SB 3444 has cracked the AI industry's safety consensus in two, and the fault line runs straight through the question of who pays when an AI kills someone.
OpenAI's Deal with the Future
A 13-page policy paper proposes robot taxes and wealth funds. The fine print backs a bill that shields AI companies from lawsuits when their systems kill people.
xAI Is Arguing That Math Is Speech. If It Wins, AI Becomes Constitutionally Unregulateable.
The claim that a language model's probability distributions are protected expression under the First Amendment would create a constitutional black box around every AI system in America.