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1. California: Newsom Signs 13 AI Bills and Vetoes Two Up to 0.5ptIMF estimate of AI’s possible yearly boost to world growth, over time 2. United States: Midterm Deepfakes Draw Legal Threats 33Dubai government entities in its agentic AI accelerator 3. Brazil: A Data-Centre Tax Break Waits on a Definition of "Low-Emission" 1.85mcombined audience of a fake NATO-deaths video before Latvia’s vote 4. Mexico: Child Deepfakes Banned, Wider AI Rules Missing 27 OctIsrael votes under its first deepfake-disclosure law 5. Denmark: A Copyright Claim to Your Own Face and Voice 54risks listed in China’s AI Safety Governance Framework 3.0, up from 30 6. European Union: Member States Edge Towards AI Training on Personal Data €30bn+EU call for up to seven AI gigafactories 7. Middle East and North Africa: The World Bank Sees Augmentation, Not Mass Layoffs 554deepfakes logged in Brazil’s first round; only 371 labelled 8. South Australia: A Royal Commission Into AI Starts Work 30+AI firms sent the first AI Act information requests 9. United States: A $300m Server-Smuggling Case 164AI-made ads in the US midterms, by one count 10. Global: Region Watch, Bangkok 42signatories to Canada’s voluntary data-centre principles Who Must Tell the State When AI Breaks Loose 174MWCape Town data centre now under appeal Austria Writes the Law for Decisions No Official Takes 83 dayswait reported under Medicare’s AI pilot, against a 72-hour standard Brazil’s Election Court Trades Bans for Disclosure 20home-grown foundation models backed by the IndiaAI Mission India Drops the Light Touch on AI 2%of Turkish public investment budgets earmarked for AI Westlaw Ruling Puts a Price on AI Training Material Washington’s AI Contract Clause Arrives on 19 October Argentina Drafts Companies Run by Software. Who Pays? Permits, Not Chips: Finland Tells Google to Pause Its Groundwork

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