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The EU AI Act's transparency obligations entered into force today: machine-readable marking of AI-generated content, backed by fines up to 3% of global turnover. The law names the outcome but not the technology — which means the next four months will decide whose watermark becomes everyone's standard.

Twelve days after a US government review nobody can fully describe, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol went public on July 9. The executive order behind it bans mandatory preclearance in plain text — and the government ran one anyway. This is what happened to the frontier-release regime after the machinery got used a second time.

Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to take a 50% public stake in the largest AI firms. Days earlier, Trump floated the government taking equity too. When the socialist left and the nationalist right reach for the same lever, the interesting question isn't the policy — it's what they both saw.