In the first week of June, Anthropic released its most capable A.I. models, Claude Mythos and Claude Fable, under a new safety program called Project Glasswing, but the U.S. Department of Commerce suspended access to both models to comply with export controls, then lifted those controls three weeks later. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, published a proposal in mid-July for a U.S. standards body modeled on FINRA, citing the improvised handling of the suspensions as evidence Washington needs a standing structure. Meanwhile, the EU AI Act, passed in 2024, spent much of 2026 relitigating its own start date; high-risk obligations originally scheduled for Aug. 2 were delayed until December 2027, and the requirement for national A.I. regulatory sandboxes slipped by a full year to August 2027. In London, the U.K. never passed the A.I. bill rumored since the first AI Safety Summit in 2023, instead regulating A.I. sector by sector through existing bodies.