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Paris hosts the third AI summit and the regulatory consensus that emerged at Bletchley quietly fractures
Sixty heads of state, a 109-billion-euro French sovereign-AI commitment, a 'Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable AI', and the United States and the United Kingdom declining to sign.
California's Governor Newsom vetoes SB 1047 and the most consequential US AI bill of the year dies short of his desk
A bill that would have imposed safety obligations on the largest training runs and indemnified whistleblowers passed both chambers comfortably. The veto letter took the trouble of saying why.
The EU AI Act enters into force, and three years of implementation work begin in earnest
The first comprehensive horizontal AI law on the books takes effect across the bloc. Almost nothing happens immediately. The harder question is whether the staggered timeline survives contact with the technology it is trying to regulate.
EU negotiators emerge from a 38-hour trilogue with a political agreement on the AI Act
France, Germany and Italy had pushed back against general-purpose AI obligations until late in the night. The compromise text contained a chapter that did not exist when the Commission's original proposal was tabled in 2021.
Twenty-eight governments meet at Bletchley Park and agree, for the first time, on what they fear
The UK's inaugural AI Safety Summit produced a one-page declaration on frontier risk and a quiet agreement to test the next generation of models before they ship. The substance was thin. The signal was not.
President Biden signs an AI executive order that starts to assemble the federal apparatus the United States had not built
Reporting thresholds for the largest training runs, an instruction to NIST to write standards, and a directive across half the cabinet. The order survives one presidential transition, partially.
Sam Altman tells the US Senate the industry needs regulating, and a new chapter of AI policy formally begins
The OpenAI chief executive used three hours of testimony to ask senators for licensing regimes, mandatory testing and an FDA-like agency. The unusual feature was a witness asking to be regulated.