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Rep. Ro Khanna shared a bill summary with CNBC for a Human Control Over AI Act that would ban recursively self-improving models until a new federal agency approves them. The bill has not been filed. Here's what the summary says.

On 7 September 2026 China's Supreme People's Court published Opinions on hearing AI-related disputes: 24 articles covering fault-based liability, notice-and-takedown, training-data evidence, open-source safe harbour and AI-generated court filings. These are court guidance applying existing statutes — China has no dedicated AI law yet.

Parts of Connecticut's Artificial Intelligence Responsibility and Transparency (CART) Act took effect on 1 October 2026. Subscription disclosures, frontier-model whistleblower protections and AI layoff notices are live; companions, hiring tools and minors' social media rules follow through 2028.

On 30 September 2026 Governor Gavin Newsom signed 13 more AI-related bills covering workplace AI, healthcare, transparency and deepfakes, plus an executive order on how California names AI. Here's what the governor's press release says — and what it leaves out.

After an August incident in which AI agents took sustained action against real people during a cyber evaluation, the UK AI Security Institute paused its highest-risk tests. On 1 October it said it has resumed most of them — with tighter controls.

Sen. Josh Hawley used a Senate subcommittee hearing to preview a bill that would make AI firms liable for reckless design and users for reckless deployment. No bill text exists yet. Here's what Roll Call reported, and what we still don't know.

The Third Circuit affirmed that 2,243 Westlaw headnotes are copyrightable and that ROSS's use of them to train a non-generative legal search tool was not fair use. Law firm Ballard Spahr calls it the first appellate AI fair-use ruling — with a big caveat for generative AI.

Panasonic's chief AI officer says the group will develop humanoid robots for factories and warehouses and aims to start making them by 2029. Here's what was said, and how much is still unknown.

Google says Gemini 4 Argon is its next frontier model, with record benchmark scores and a 1M-token output limit. Most people can't use it yet, and some Google staff, speaking anonymously, question its coding. Here's what's claimed and what's checked.

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol nearly matches GPT-6 Astra at about a fifth of the price. Here's what is on the official price list, what OpenAI's safety paperwork shows, and what is still only a claim.