US drops AI safety order; EU defines high-risk AI

Trump's AI executive order falls to industry lobbying while the EU defines which AI systems face its strictest rules.

• White House drops AI safety vetting order after industry pushback
• EU Commission publishes draft guidance on high-risk AI classification
• FTC begins enforcing US deepfake image removal law
• Meta trains AI on employee data during mass layoffs
• California Governor signs first-of-its-kind AI workforce executive order
• OpenAI files confidentially for IPO at $852 billion valuation