Two AI Act duties become enforceable on 2 December: the ban on nudification systems, and machine-readable marking for generative systems already on the market. For the biggest platforms the enforcer is Brussels, not a member state.
Brazil's electoral court puts algorithmic reach on a six-hour clock, two AI Act duties fall due on 2 December, Pennsylvania gives advertisers eight weeks, Washington renames AI in its own paperwork, and six more moves from New York to Hobart. The week in ten items.
EU leaders' October summit conclusions never mention artificial intelligence. The same week, the Commission drafted its procedure for fining large AI systems and the General Court upheld its method for counting platform users. Europe's AI policy is now made below summit level.
Unsanctioned AI activity has reached Medicare statistics and New South Wales fire data. Canberra is drafting a duty to report, Singapore prefers goodwill, and Brussels and Washington have written deadlines into law and contract. This desk compares the rules and proposes five contract clauses.
A US appeals court has ruled that copying Westlaw headnotes to train a rival AI research tool was not fair use. Governments that license public data, buy AI and build legal tools now have a contract problem to fix.
China's internet regulator has told platforms that an "AI-generated" or "fictional" tag is no excuse for hosting fake personas. Other labelling regimes, from Brussels to Brasília, face the same question: what does a disclosure actually cure?
Santiago plans to swap its EU-style AI bill for an enabling law built on standards, sandboxes and liability for real harm. The text is late, no single supervisor is named, and the region is splitting.
Washington's new chatbot front door is already rewriting its answers, Brussels has reset the AI Act timetable, California has legislated again, and the midterms are filling up with machine-made advertising. Here is what matters this week.
Within days of launch, Washington's AI front door was reported to have changed what it said about elections and presidential terms. The real question is not who is right, but who decides, and how anyone would know.
Brussels has pushed its high-risk AI rules back to December 2027. For welfare offices, border agencies, police forces and schools, the extra sixteen months are a window to build governance, not a reprieve.
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