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Starting July 7, 2026, all new EU vehicles must include a camera-based driver distraction warning system analyzing gaze and head position, triggering an alert when attention drifts for more than 3.5 seconds above 50 km/h.
Australian publishers and artists are pressuring the government to force Anthropic and other AI companies to pay for training data protected by copyright.
The FTC proposed a policy statement arguing that AI output suppression or steering for ideological reasons, political pressure, or liability avoidance may constitute deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act. Comments due July 31.
The righttointelligence.org campaign asserts that people should have the legal right to download, own, run, study, and modify open AI models locally without licensing requirements, warning that new state laws could put local AI behind a permission wall.
A class action filed in the Northern District of California accuses the three biggest memory makers of secretly coordinating to cut DRAM production and shift capacity to HBM for AI accelerators, driving consumer memory prices up roughly 700% in four years.
Tech journalists Brian Merchant and Molly White launched a new podcast/show on June 26 spotlighting AI and crypto industry spending in US elections. White is launching Tech Influence Watch to track expenditures.
A bipartisan House subpanel on June 24 advanced legislation forcing data centers ≥100 MW to cover their own grid upgrade costs — not pass them to ratepayers.
Warren on June 24 urged Congress to expand antitrust enforcement for AI and overhaul merger law. She warned about algorithmic price-fixing such as rent inflation.
An AI startup has filed suit against the US government over an order requiring Anthropic to deny foreign nationals access to its most advanced Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The suit was filed less than two weeks after Anthropic disabled foreign access.
Beijing is consolidating higher education around AI disciplines — roughly 12,000 degree programs are being shut down to free capacity for AI-adjacent fields.
