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Australia made AI risk assessments mandatory for high-risk government uses, relying on existing sectoral regulators rather than a dedicated AI authority — a distributed approach that will test whether existing institutions can absorb the new mandate.
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Brazil passed a comprehensive AI law placing strict liability on providers for harm caused by high-risk AI systems — joining the EU and China as one of only three jurisdictions with broad AI legislation and setting a precedent the rest of Latin America is likely to follow.
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The UK AI Safety Institute published its first evaluations of five frontier AI models, testing for catastrophic risk capabilities — but the regime remains voluntary, and the Institute is seeking a statutory right of access.
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The EU AI Act's high-risk rules now apply to an estimated 85,000 companies across Europe, covering AI in hiring, credit, education, and law enforcement — the world's first comprehensive AI law at full application.