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The SEC proposed rescinding Regulation NMS Rules 611 and 610(e), removing the trade-through prohibition and locked/crossed-quote restrictions for NMS stocks, with comments due 60 days after Federal Register publication.

Model access changed through export control, not a normal product decision. Anthropic said the directive forced it to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers while leaving other Claude models online.

A Massachusetts privacy bill passed the House 146-0 and would ban the sale of precise location data. Because it covers companies processing data from more than 100,000 consumers, the pressure lands directly on ad tech, mobile apps, and data brokers.

USDA confirmed a second New World screwworm detection in Zavala County, Texas, 5.6 miles from the first case. Canada responded with temporary livestock and horse import restrictions for animals tied to Texas within 21 days, adding a trade-control shock to a tight U.S. cattle market.

A 269-page House discussion draft released on June 4 would create a federal AI framework while blocking state laws aimed at AI model development for three years. The fight is already about whether national consistency is worth slowing state-level AI rules.

The SEC proposed rescinding its 2024 climate-disclosure rules in full, opening a 60-day comment period after Federal Register publication. The action would remove greenhouse-gas, climate-risk and severe-weather disclosure mandates from registration statements and annual reports if finalized.

OpenAI's new EU Cyber Action Plan grants vetted European cybersecurity teams access to GPT-5.5-Cyber, a defensive variant of its latest model tuned for vulnerability research and malware analysis. Anthropic continues to restrict its more powerful Mythos model over exploitation concerns.

OpenAI announced its EU Cyber Action Plan on May 11, granting vetted European security teams access to GPT-5.5-Cyber. UK AISI testing found GPT-5.5 scores 71.4% on expert cyber tasks, edging Mythos at 68.6%.

Republican lawmakers are investigating Sam Altman's personal business dealings for potential conflicts of interest as OpenAI moves toward an IPO. The scrutiny adds political risk to OpenAI's planned public offering.

EU Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on the Digital Omnibus regulation on May 7, 2026, extending high-risk AI compliance deadlines by up to 24 months and adding a new prohibition on non-consensual sexual AI content.

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CASI) secured agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to review frontier AI models for national security risks before launch. The policy shift follows alarm over Anthropic's Claude Mythos autonomous cybersecurity capabilities.

South Korea's National Assembly passed an amendment to the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act on May 8, requiring businesses providing overseas cryptocurrency transfer services to register with the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Unregistered operators will be treated as illegal after the law takes effect. The move marks the second major crypto regulatory tightening since the Virtual Asset User Protection Act took effect in 2024.