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Executive Order N-9-26 speeds implementation of California’s new AI-audit laws while asking experts to assess emergency shutoffs and expanded incident reporting.
The Cyber Resilience Act’s first major operational duty is live, compressing the time product makers have to assess and report exploited flaws.
NHTSA is examining whether Tesla’s steering-wheel-free Cybercab complies with federal safety standards after its commercial launch in Austin.
A federal complaint alleges Amazon quietly used reserve prices to raise what advertisers paid, while Amazon says the case misunderstands its auctions.
A court-approved agreement with 52 attorneys general ties Meta to product changes, independent oversight and roughly $18 billion in payments over 10 years.
A proposed 10-year order would require Redfin to rebuild its rental advertising business while preserving a narrower listings partnership with Zillow.
Alabama’s attorney general is demanding records on OpenAI’s July model-evaluation incident as states test whether existing consumer laws reach frontier AI.
TikTok and ByteDance will pay $400 million to resolve a federal COPPA case, with $300 million due immediately and no admission of wrongdoing.
The reported investigation tests whether a common venture-capital practice has become an illegal board interlock as Databricks and Fivetran move into overlapping data markets.
New Claude models will add invisible marks to text and signed C2PA metadata to supported files as EU transparency rules take effect.
