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Bipartisan 'Great American AI Act' Draft Would Put Frontier Developers Under Federal Audits and Freeze State AI Laws for Three Years
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 Limits Its GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna Models to Trusted Partners at the US Government's Request
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.
EU's Top Court Upholds Record €4.1 Billion Google Android Antitrust Fine, Rejecting Google's Final Appeal
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.
Supreme Court Overrules Humphrey's Executor in Trump v. Slaughter, Ending FTC Commissioners' For-Cause Protection
The 6-3 ruling lets presidents fire FTC commissioners at will, reshaping the agency that leads U.S. privacy and AI enforcement.
Swedish Court Orders Google to Pay Record Damages to Klarna's PriceRunner Over Shopping Search Bias
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.
Trump Expected to Nominate FCC Counsel Adam Candeub as DOJ Antitrust Chief, Filling a Vacancy Left by Omeed Assefi's Departure
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.
US Lets Anthropic Re-Release Its Mythos 5 AI Model to Trusted Partners Two Weeks After an Export Block
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.
State AGs Urge Ninth Circuit to Keep Nexstar-Tegna Merger Frozen as Bipartisan Coalition Eyes a July 2027 Trial
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 Opens Industrywide Antitrust Probe Into Fertilizer Prices as Ferguson Faces Farmers From 18 States in Texas
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson told corn farmers in Texas the agency has opened a compulsory-process antitrust investigation into surging fertilizer prices.
Forty-Two State Attorneys General Subpoena OpenAI Over Ads, Health Data, and ChatGPT Sycophancy Days After Its Confidential IPO Filing
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.
EU Moves to Designate AWS and Azure as DMA Gatekeepers in First Cloud Test of the Digital Markets Act
The European Commission's preliminary view targets Amazon's and Microsoft's cloud arms, the first DMA designation made without meeting the law's quantitative thresholds.
FAA Misses Its Own Part 108 Deadline as a Fight Over Drone Right-of-Way Stalls the BVLOS Rule
A February 1, 2026 deadline set by a White House executive order has passed with no final Part 108 rule, as a proposal granting drones presumptive right-of-way over manned aircraft draws heavy pushback.