Policy & Regulation

The FTC voted 2-0 to open comment through July 31 on a proposed statement treating undisclosed ideological AI output-steering as deception and calling Colorado's AI Act impliedly preempted.

The Justice Department cleared Paramount's $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery without conditions, over reported objections from career antitrust staff, leaving an EU remedy decision due July 22 and possible UK intervention as the deal's final hurdles.

A 269-page bipartisan discussion draft from Reps. Obernolte and Trahan would place large frontier AI developers under semi-annual federal audits and preempt state AI-development laws for three years.

OpenAI began a limited preview of its GPT-5.6 models — Sol, Terra, and Luna — restricting access to a small group of government-approved partners at the request of the US government.

Europe's Court of Justice dismissed Google and Alphabet's appeal on July 2, 2026, confirming a roughly €4.1 billion penalty over Android licensing practices and leaving no further right to appeal.

The 6-3 ruling lets presidents fire FTC commissioners at will, reshaping the agency that leads U.S. privacy and AI enforcement.

Stockholm's Patent and Market Court found Google unlawfully favored its own price comparison service, awarding PriceRunner what a judge called the largest damages in a Swedish competition case.

The White House plans to nominate FCC General Counsel Adam Candeub to lead the DOJ Antitrust Division as acting chief Omeed Assefi prepares to leave, the second leadership turnover since February.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick cleared Anthropic to redeploy its most capable cybersecurity model to select US companies and agencies, weeks after an export directive forced it offline. Fable 5 stays restricted.

Eight states defend an April injunction that bars Nexstar from integrating Tegna, while the broader 13-state coalition and Nexstar jointly propose a July 2027 jury trial.

FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson told corn farmers in Texas the agency has opened a compulsory-process antitrust investigation into surging fertilizer prices.

A coalition of 42 state attorneys general subpoenaed OpenAI on June 12, days after the company filed confidentially to go public, demanding records on advertising, health data, minors, and model sycophancy.