Illinois mandates AI audits; EU softens compliance timeline

A US state leads on frontier model oversight while the EU buys businesses more time; enterprise AI reaches hundreds of thousands of workers.

• Illinois becomes first US state to mandate frontier model audits
• EU AI Act Omnibus postpones high-risk deadlines and adds a new prohibition
• China quietly restricts overseas travel for elite AI researchers
• OpenAI launches $4 billion consulting subsidiary DeployCo
• Anthropic expands enterprise security governance; KPMG deploys Claude to 276,000 staff
• Google unveils Gemini Omni, a model that generates interactive worlds