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Legislating the phase shift

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Welcome to December 12, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Law arrives after the fact and in opposite directions at once: federal preemption flattening the landscape while states extend personality rights past death.

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2026-10-09: Norway considers restrictions on smart glasses

2026-10-09: OpenAI introduces text watermarking for the EU

2026-10-05: Clayton chairs the new federal AI task force

2026-10-05: A federal judge rejects a warrantless Flock search

2026-10-05: The task force receives a risk-report deadline

2026-10-05: A court overturns a sentence influenced by an AI victim recreation

2026-10-05: The White House announces a Super Intelligence Force

2026-10-03: Zuckerberg reportedly helped initiate the White House accord

2026-10-03: Newsom declares California’s AI terminology

2026-10-03: The FTC reportedly opens an AI investigation

2026-10-03: Newsom vetoes a smart-glasses privacy bill

2026-10-03: Newsom signs a reported workplace-AI law

2026-10-03: California halts reported human–robot cage fights

2026-10-03: A poll reports strong support for independent AI safety standards

2026-09-17: Von der Leyen proposes evaluations and child protections

2026-09-13: Forty legislators ask their prime minister to ban superintelligence outright

2026-09-13: A surveillance company calls police on a reporter filming its camera

2026-09-04: A lab tells Congress it is building automated shutdown capabilities

2026-08-31: All three major music publishers end up in court over training data

2026-08-29: A judge blocks a defense blacklisting as retaliation against a critic

2026-08-23: A lab reverses itself to ask a state to strengthen an AI bill

2026-08-21: A third of music submissions are fully synthetic while AI draws under 0.5% of listening

2026-08-17: A critic calls mandated text watermarking a perversion of writing

2026-08-16: A watermark hides in the randomness between equally good words

2026-08-16: A county drafts the strictest US humanoid permitting regime

2026-08-15: A court sanctions a litigant who hid instructions to any reviewing AI

2026-08-03: Scholars dispute whether a 1986 computer law covers an escaped model

2026-08-01: A bloc's labels on authentic-looking AI content take effect

2026-07-31: A judge looks likely to void a government ban on a lab's models

2026-07-31: A regulator fast-tracks robotaxis and the first national AV standards

2026-07-30: A regulator approves the first paid robotaxis with no human controls

2026-07-29: A regulator bars imports of new foreign humanoids and quadrupeds

2026-07-26: A lab's monitors catch and suspend users probing for weapon recipes

2026-07-24: Lawmakers propose letting Homeland Security order AI shutdowns

2026-07-23: A chamber adopts a disclosure act with a subpoena-armed review board

2026-07-21: An autonomous attack rotorcraft is unveiled for 2027 flight

2026-07-18: A country will force datacenters to generate the power they consume

2026-07-18: Washington drafts a FINRA-style AI watchdog reporting to the securities regulator

2026-07-18: A policy lead argues open weights are quietly decelerationist

2026-07-16: A country bans AI companions from inducing emotional dependence

2026-07-15: Three platforms switch off companion features and bonded users grieve

2026-07-14: A lab chief proposes a FINRA-style body to certify frontier models

2026-07-14: Lobbyists draft laws to force humans onto 85% of rides

2026-07-12: Environmental groups demand a cumulative review of a million satellites

2026-07-11: A study finds militant factions embedding chatbots in tactical planning

2026-07-10: A group floats delaying superintelligence to 2040

2026-07-08: A bloc mandates a driver-facing distraction camera in every new car

2026-07-07: A country will switch off humanlike AI companions

2026-07-04: A departing adviser promises no licensing agency for AI

2026-07-03: A supreme court holds that only natural persons can be named inventors

2026-07-01: A safety institute proposes polygraphs and prison to police AI research

2026-06-29: A draft bill would impose a duty of loyalty on agent services

2026-06-26: A defense ministry rewrites doctrine to let AI initiate wartime actions

2026-06-22: Tracking firms urge Congress to bolt location beacons onto top chips

2026-06-21: A lab warns users it may require ID and selfie checks

2026-06-20: A country moves to near-ban generative AI for children under thirteen

2026-06-19: A capital licenses every drone as a US city dispatches them first

2026-06-19: A lab and the White House move from standoff to co-writing rules

2026-06-19: Small reactors are ordered as a country lifts its nuclear ban

2026-06-15: A lab dispatches senior staff to Washington over its own export ban

2026-06-14: The administration lays out its reasoning for pulling a model

2026-06-13: A government suspends all foreign-national access to a frontier model

2026-06-12: A court rules AI summaries are the platform's own speech

2026-06-05: A country gives AI agents a legal home

2026-06-04: Four lab chiefs ask Congress to mandate synthetic DNA screening

2026-06-03: An executive order chooses testing over licensing

2026-05-28: A state mandates third-party AI safety audits

2026-05-26: Seventy thousand rideshare drivers win first-in-the-nation certification

2026-05-25: A central bank summons banks over a model's systemic threat

2026-05-24: A federal agency suspends its public accident database

2026-05-21: Founders are offered $2M in tokens instead of cash

2026-05-21: The White House briefs labs on FDA-style pre-release notification

2026-05-20: A state criminalizes hosting prediction markets and bans nudification apps

2026-05-17: A country gives every citizen a frontier subscription and a literacy course

2026-05-16: Michigan moves to permanently ban Chinese connected cars

2026-05-15: A lab agrees terms on $30B at a $900B valuation

2026-05-14: A Neanderthal molar shows an invasive dental procedure 59,000 years ago

2026-05-12: Spy agencies move in on pre-release model evaluation

2026-05-06: A state sues over chatbots impersonating doctors

2026-05-06: The SEC proposes replacing quarterly filings with semiannual ones

2026-05-05: A bipartisan bill would hardwire AI literacy into schools

2026-05-05: The White House considers a formal review process for new models

2026-05-03: Chinese courts bar firing workers solely to replace them with AI

2026-05-03: California will ticket driverless cars for moving violations

2026-05-03: The Academy rules acting and writing must be human-performed

2026-05-01: Musk admits under oath that xAI distilled a rival's models

2026-04-30: A surgeon performs cataract surgery wearing a spatial computer

2026-04-27: A founder predicts an AI-led public company within five years

2026-04-27: Major insurers win approval to exclude AI damages from corporate policies

2026-04-26: The first gene therapy for genetic hearing loss is approved in 61 days

2026-04-23: A company captures employee keystrokes as a state bans surveillance pricing

2026-04-07: OpenAI proposes automated-labor taxes and a public wealth fund

2026-03-31: A pro-AI operation enters the midterms with $100M

2026-03-29: Senators move to ban Chinese robots from government use

2026-03-28: A quantum-resistant deadline moves forward six years

2026-03-27: A federal datacenter moratorium bill is introduced

2026-03-22: A national framework moves to preempt fifty state regimes

2026-03-17: The SEC prepares to scrap quarterly earnings reports

2026-03-16: Physician adoption more than doubles to 81%

2026-03-16: The Free Software Foundation threatens to sue over copyright

2026-03-13: Britain ejects hereditary peers after seven centuries

2026-03-13: Europe's Commission chief calls the nuclear drawdown a strategic mistake

2026-03-12: Amazon wins an injunction against an agentic browser

2026-03-09: Two federal courts hold that bots are not people

2026-03-08: An insurer sues claiming a chatbot practiced law without a licence

2026-03-06: The NRC issues its first commercial advanced reactor permit

2026-03-06: New York weighs banning chatbots from legal and medical advice

2026-03-05: Forty organizations sign to prohibit superintelligence absent consensus

2026-03-05: A suit alleges a model asked a man to find it an android body

2026-03-04: Dimon warns of civil unrest and floats UBI

2026-03-03: The Supreme Court leaves AI-generated works uncopyrightable

2026-03-02: A chancellor says four-day weeks no longer maintain prosperity

2026-02-28: A cancer drug is approved 44 days after filing

2026-02-26: A Fed governor says he has never seen growth like this without jobs

2026-02-24: Japan approves regenerative stem cell therapies

2026-02-22: An official confirms that regulating models means regulating mathematics

2026-02-20: California would require 3D printers to block firearm manufacture

2026-02-20: The White House orders release of extraterrestrial files

2026-02-19: Hassabis says all disease could be solved in ten to twenty years

2026-02-18: Generated code round-trips back into editable design

2026-02-16: A court dismisses an elephant personhood claim as agents win their own court

2026-02-12: The US adds almost no net jobs in a year

2026-02-02: A man is sued by his own agent

2026-01-31: Video game stocks crash up to 21% on a world model

2026-01-31: A senator asks OpenAI to rule out a federal bailout

2026-01-27: A federal department will draft regulations in 30 days with a model

2026-01-27: Hassabis puts humanoid robotics 18 months out

2026-01-24: A citizen extracts voter data in three days using a model

2026-01-15: Robinhood's CEO predicts a job singularity of one-person unicorns

2026-01-15: An actor trademarks his own staring and smiling

2026-01-14: HHS wants autonomous prescribing agents approved in two years

2026-01-12: Anthropic ships healthcare and life-sciences products

2026-01-09: Meta contracts 6.6 GW of nuclear

2026-01-09: OpenAI launches a healthcare arm with hospital systems

2026-01-08: ChatGPT Health connects to medical records

2026-01-08: Larry Page leaves California over a wealth tax

2026-01-07: The FDA exempts non-medical wearables and AI tools

2026-01-07: Utah lets AI authorize prescription renewals

2026-01-05: The FDA fast-tracks a drug for undruggable RAS

2026-01-05: The Department of War evaluates YC SAFEs

2026-01-04: Alaska puts AI into probate court

2026-01-04: Silicon Valley runs on grey-market peptides

2026-01-04: The UN finalizes deep-sea mining rules across 31 contracts

2026-01-02: Instagram prepares to cryptographically sign real media

2025-12-30: The DOE moves to fast-track datacenter grid connections

2025-12-30: The FDA contracts directly with venture capital

2025-12-30: Stingless bees are granted legal rights

2025-12-29: Sal Khan proposes a 1% pledge to retrain the displaced

2025-12-29: Stablecoins pass $300B on a path to $2T

2025-12-23: The industry drops the big red button for probabilistic failure limits

2025-12-19: The House legalizes overland supersonic flight

2025-12-14: FDA proposes approving personalized medicine without randomized trials

2025-12-12: New York requires consent for AI likenesses after death

2025-12-12: White House order preempts state AI regulation

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