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Bureau: Berlin
Two regulators moved in opposite directions on the same Friday — the FTC went at nudify operators directly, and Brussels bought the AI industry a year and four months on the highest-risk rules.
The first papal encyclical lands at 11:30 Monday in the Vatican Synod Hall with the AI safety lab's co-founder in the room and the Trump administration's Anthropic block at the door.
The same week the FTC began enforcing TAKE IT DOWN with $53,088 per violation, Brussels gave its own high-risk regime sixteen more months to start.
Six days from the deadline, the network running the Senate war-powers blog still hasn't filed and the senator who wrote the letter still hasn't been answered.
One month on from the April OAuth incident, no named Vercel customer has shipped an architecture-change post.
Twelve weeks and three days after the Trenga ruling, the DOJ has filed its April 9 motion and nothing since — the appellate clock is still bounded negative evidence.
Two days after the WBUR-WCVB-Globe debate announcement, Markey's FCC letter is twenty-four days unanswered and the Disney deadline is six days away — the dual clock holds.