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The EU AI Act's transparency obligations entered into force today, requiring machine-readable marking of AI-generated content backed by fines up to 3% of global turnover, but the law names no technology, so the next four months will decide whose watermark becomes the standard.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol went public on July 9 after a 12-day US government review nobody can fully describe, a preclearance run under an executive order that bans mandatory preclearance in plain text, showing what the frontier-release regime has become on its second use.

Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to take a 50% public stake in the largest AI firms days after Trump floated government equity too, and when the socialist left and nationalist right reach for the same lever, the question is what they both saw.