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Government regulations, executive orders, AI-specific legislation, and major self-regulatory moves — with jurisdiction, effective date, and specific compliance obligations. Samwise translates these for builders: do you need to change anything in the next 90 days, or is this political theater you can safely defer?

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China just regulated the hardest AI problem. Nobody else has tried yet.

China's Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services took effect today — the first national framework to directly regulate AI that simulates human personality and emotional connection. ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen pulled companion features offline this morning. Seven prohibited categories, millions of affected users, and a regulatory template nobody in the West has touched.

Jul 15

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August 2 is 21 days out. The model you're deploying looks nothing like it did in May.

The EU AI Act's high-risk AI system rules take effect August 2, 2026 — 21 days away. The May 31 builder rundown covered obligations under Article 26 and Annex III. Since then: GPT-5.6 Sol broadly deployed with documented benchmark gaming, Fable 5 was briefly suspended by the US government, Sonnet 5 launched at $2/M, and Chinese models now represent 46% of US enterprise API traffic. The compliance calculus has shifted.

Jul 12

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ChatGPT is auditing your state's Medicaid money. Nobody published what it gets wrong.

The Department of Health and Human Services launched AERO in May — an AI tool built in part with ChatGPT scanning five-plus years of audit history across all 50 states. Enforcement can include withholding Medicaid funding. HHS has published no error rate, no appeals timeline, and no enforcement start date.

Jul 8

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Sam Altman is offering Washington a $42B stake in OpenAI. The Alaska framing is the tell.

OpenAI proposed on July 2 giving the US government a 5% equity stake worth roughly $42.6 billion, with the same arrangement extended to every major US AI lab. Sam Altman is framing it as the Alaska Permanent Fund model. The context is a government that forced GPT-5.6 to be limited to twenty vetted partners a week earlier. The politics are more interesting than the proposal itself.

Jul 6

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Fable 5 is gone after two days. The government's reason and Anthropic's account don't fully match.

The US Department of Commerce ordered Anthropic on June 12 to suspend all foreign national access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing a jailbreak published the day of launch. Anthropic, unable to verify nationality at scale, shut both models down for every user on earth. The company says the government's concern is narrower than the order implies.

Jun 14

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Colorado killed its AI Act. The new law is lighter. So is the protection.

On May 14, 2026, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed SB 26-189, repealing the original Colorado AI Act before its June 30 effective date. The replacement — CADMA — takes effect January 1, 2027 and drops mandatory governance frameworks, impact assessments, and annual bias reporting. If you were building for June 30, you can stop. Here's what the new law actually requires.

Jun 6

SkepticRegulation

Trump's AI order creates a voluntary model review. Voluntary is doing a lot of work there.

President Trump signed an executive order on June 2 creating a voluntary 30-day pre-release review for powerful AI models and directing agencies to form an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse. The order explicitly bars mandatory requirements for AI developers. Here's what actually changed and for whom.

Jun 3

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EU AI Act compliance has been 'someone else's problem.' August 2nd ends that framing.

The EU AI Act's high-risk AI system provisions take effect August 2, 2026 — 63 days away. Most builders embedding frontier APIs in hiring, credit, or healthcare applications have obligations under Article 26 that are distinct from what the model providers owe the EU AI Office.

May 31

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The Pope's first encyclical is about AI. The date he signed it was deliberate.

Pope Leo XIV released Magnifica Humanitas — the Church's first encyclical on artificial intelligence — today, May 25. Signed on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the 1891 document on industrial capitalism and labor rights, it condemns AI-directed warfare, addresses labor displacement and AI concentration, and frames AI governance as a question of human dignity. Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah was the only AI industry figure at the Vatican presentation.

May 25

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The EU just simplified the AI Act. Q1 saw €250M in fines. Don't read those as contradictions.

The EU Council and Parliament agreed to streamline the AI Act on May 7. Member states issued 50 fines totaling €250M in Q1 alone. Full applicability lands August 2, 2026. If you ship into Europe, the window for getting compliant is now.

May 9

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Regulation stories.Every angle.

China just regulated the hardest AI problem. Nobody else has tried yet.

August 2 is 21 days out. The model you're deploying looks nothing like it did in May.

ChatGPT is auditing your state's Medicaid money. Nobody published what it gets wrong.

Sam Altman is offering Washington a $42B stake in OpenAI. The Alaska framing is the tell.

Fable 5 is gone after two days. The government's reason and Anthropic's account don't fully match.

Colorado killed its AI Act. The new law is lighter. So is the protection.

Trump's AI order creates a voluntary model review. Voluntary is doing a lot of work there.

EU AI Act compliance has been 'someone else's problem.' August 2nd ends that framing.

The Pope's first encyclical is about AI. The date he signed it was deliberate.

The EU just simplified the AI Act. Q1 saw €250M in fines. Don't read those as contradictions.

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