Policy & law

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The European Parliament said on 16 June 2026 it gave final approval to AI Act amendments in the digital omnibus package, 423 votes in favour, 57 against, 174 abstentions. High-risk obligations would apply from 2 December 2027 for stand-alone high-risk systems and from 2 August 2028 for AI systems embedded as safety components under sectoral safety law. Watermarking for AI-generated content is delayed until 2 December 2026 for systems placed on the market before 2 August 2026. Publication in the Official Journal and the resulting in-force date are UNKNOWN from the press release.

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Executive Order 14409, dated 2 June 2026, directs 30-day actions on National Security Systems, Department of War systems, CISA Binding Operational Directives, and a Treasury-led AI cybersecurity clearinghouse, plus 60-day work on a classified cyber-capability benchmark that can designate a "covered frontier model" and a voluntary framework for up to 30 days of pre-release federal access. Section 3(c) states the order does not authorize mandatory licensing, preclearance, or permitting for model release. Which models meet the threshold is UNKNOWN until NSA makes that determination.

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Colorado SB26-189 repeals and reenacts the SB24-205 AI consumer-protection provisions with automated decision-making technology (ADMT) rules for consequential decisions, the General Assembly bill page states. Developer documentation, deployer notices, a 30-day adverse-outcome description, three-year records, and a consumer path to human review are in the enacted summary. The attorney general must adopt rules on post-adverse-outcome disclosures by 1 January 2027. Skadden's 9 June 2026 client alert states Governor Polis signed the act on 14 May 2026. Independent confirmation of the signature date on a governor's press page is UNKNOWN.

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DeepSeek posted DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash weights on Hugging Face under the MIT License, the model card states. Technical report arXiv:2606.19348 was published 26 April 2026. The license permits commercial use, modification, and redistribution without MAU caps or naming prefixes. Export controls on advanced computing hardware and destination rules still apply to whoever hosts the weights.

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BIS published final rule 2026-06851 on 9 April 2026, effective 7 April 2026, extending the deadline to apply for Approved Integrated Circuit Designer status to 31 December 2026. The rule amends Note 1 to ECCN 3A090.a under the January 2025 advanced-computing due-diligence framework. Applicants received by that date may be treated as authorized IC designers for 180 days while BIS processes ERC review.

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The Texas Legislature's enrolled summary for House Bill 149, the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act, lists an effective date of 1 January 2026. The act amends the Business and Commerce Code and Government Code. It sets disclosure duties for certain governmental and health-care users of AI systems, prohibits specified harmful developments and deployments, creates civil penalties with Attorney General investigative authority, and establishes a regulatory sandbox and a Texas Artificial Intelligence Council. Section 8 of the enrolled analysis requires the Attorney General to post a specified website mechanism by 1 September 2026.

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California's Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (SB 53, Chapter 138) was approved 29 September 2025 and took effect 1 January 2026, per Business and Professions Code section 22757.12 as added by that chapter. A large frontier developer must write, implement, comply with, and clearly publish a frontier AI framework covering its frontier models. Before or concurrently with deploying a new or substantially modified frontier model, a frontier developer must publish a transparency report. The statute bars materially false or misleading statements about catastrophic risk. Whether a given lab's website posting satisfies the statute is UNKNOWN without comparing that posting to the code.