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The European Parliament and Council agreed on May 7 to simplify the AI Act, pushing high-risk compliance deadlines to December 2027 and August 2028 while adding a new ban on AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery.

Connecticut's bipartisan AI Responsibility and Transparency Act passed the House 131-17 and Senate 32-4. Generative AI providers with 1M+ monthly users must embed provenance metadata in AI-generated media; frontier model developers must protect employee whistleblowers.

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) announced on May 5 that it signed national security testing agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI, expanding pre-deployment frontier AI evaluations focused on cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical weapons risks.

The Trump administration is considering an executive order requiring government review of powerful AI models before release, with NSA and intelligence agencies as oversight bodies. The move marks a sharp reversal after revoking Biden's AI safety order in January 2025.

The U.S. SEC formally proposed on May 5, 2026 allowing public companies to substitute semiannual 10-S filings for traditional quarterly 10-Q reports. The Trump-backed rule change is optional — companies could still file quarterly — but opens a public comment period before a possible vote in 2026–2027.

The DoD cleared OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Nvidia, and SpaceX to deploy AI on classified Impact Level 6 and IL7 military networks. Anthropic was labeled a 'supply chain risk' after insisting on safety guardrails for wartime AI use.

EU member states and European Parliament negotiators failed to reach a deal on the AI Act Omnibus after 12 hours of talks on April 29. The core dispute: whether high-risk AI embedded in regulated products should be exempt from additional AI Act requirements.

The U.S. Department of Defense struck agreements with seven tech companies to deploy AI on its highest-security networks on May 1. Anthropic, which insisted on safety guardrails against autonomous weapons, is conspicuously absent.

California is set to issue traffic citations directly to autonomous vehicles that break the law, closing a legal gap that gave driverless cars de facto immunity from traffic enforcement.

The U.S. Department of Defense finalized AI deployment agreements with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, AWS, NVIDIA, SpaceX, Reflection AI, and Oracle for its most classified networks. Anthropic was excluded after refusing to allow Claude to be used for purposes including autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.

Elon Musk took the stand in Oakland on April 28 in a lawsuit to block OpenAI's nonprofit-to-for-profit conversion, testifying for over seven hours across three days. He claimed to have originated the idea, recruited key staff, and provided all initial funding.

Google has signed a classified AI agreement with the Pentagon allowing use of Gemini for any lawful military purpose. The deal came after Anthropic refused similar terms. Over 600 Google employees sent a letter opposing the contract.