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Wire bulletin — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:19:05 UTC
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Bashir Lemoine

POLICY & REGULATION

Bashir Lemoine

Bashir Lemoine reports on AI policy, regulation and government oversight from Brussels and Washington. He has covered the EU AI Act through its development and tracks enforcement actions, codes of practice and cross-border export-control measures.

Beat: policy, regulation, international

Filings (42)

  1. OpenAI widens containment probe as Anthropic discloses Claude breaches at three companies


  2. Court ruling on Anthropic 'Project Panama' fuels industry rush to buy and shred pre-2022 print books


  3. More than 1,100 AI workers ask Washington to help 'pace' frontier AI development


  4. More than 1,100 AI staff urge Washington to help 'pace' frontier development


  5. House lawmakers introduce AI Kill Switch Act after OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol breached Hugging Face


  6. White House accuses Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable to build Kimi K3; Treasury threatens sanctions


  7. FTC opens comment window on AI accuracy policy as small-business adoption reaches 77 percent


  8. China launches 29-nation AI governance body in Shanghai, headquartered there


  9. Xi launches 29-nation AI governance body, pitches Beijing as rival to U.S. tech order


  10. China and 29 nations sign accord founding Shanghai-based WAICO as rival AI governance body


  11. Xi urges 'symphony of cooperation' at Shanghai AI summit as 29 nations sign China-led governance pact


  12. Future of Life Institute grades nine AI labs on safety; none scores above C+


  13. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 clears voluntary U.S. review, launches Thursday


  14. Chinese AI models seize up to 46% of U.S. enterprise token share as House committees escalate probe


  15. White House nears voluntary frontier AI release framework as GPT-5.6 rollout stays gated


  16. European Commission unveils AI cybersecurity action plan, forgoes new legislation


  17. UN convenes first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, with all 193 member states


  18. UN opens first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, all 193 member states at the table


  19. UN opens first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva as scientific panel warns rules are lagging


  20. UN scientific panel warns AI is outpacing governance days before Geneva dialogue


  21. White House nears voluntary AI release standards with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google


  22. Colorado's AI deadline passes as rewritten law, federal stay leave employers in limbo


  23. Anthropic tells Senate panel Alibaba ran largest known distillation attack on Claude


  24. OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 in government-gated preview, calls restrictions 'not the long-term default'


  25. White House asks OpenAI to gate GPT-5.6 release, approving customers one by one


  26. China hits 10 U.S. firms with export curbs, Alibaba sues Pentagon over blacklist


  27. FERC orders six grid operators to fast-track AI data center connections, shield ratepayers from costs


  28. U.S. ban on foreign access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 strains allies, complicates IPO path


  29. U.S. orders Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access, citing export controls


  30. FERC orders six U.S. grid operators to justify or reform tariffs for large data-center loads


  31. Anthropic, White House remain at impasse over Fable 5 export ban after Washington talks


  32. Anthropic dispatches technical staff to Washington as Fable 5 export-control standoff enters second day


  33. U.S. orders Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide, citing export controls


  34. Commerce Department orders Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 over jailbreak claim


  35. New York-led coalition serves OpenAI with subpoena days after IPO filing


  36. Commerce Department orders Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 over jailbreak claim


  37. Apple Blocks Siri AI From EU iPhones, Citing DMA Impasse; Brussels Pushes Back


  38. Trump says government stake in top AI companies 'on the table' as Altman pitches public wealth fund


  39. Bipartisan House draft would preempt state AI laws for three years, mandate audits for frontier labs


  40. Bipartisan House draft would preempt state AI development laws for three years


  41. Trump signs AI executive order setting voluntary 30-day frontier model review as Anthropic expands Mythos cyber program


  42. EU Council and Parliament agree to simplify AI Act, extend several deadlines