AI Deadline | Thursday 6 August 2026

For founders, operators, and creators in AI | USA · UK · EU

California's new labelling rules for AI-generated images and audio kicked in on Sunday. Most small companies are exempt. A bill three weeks from dying on the calendar would scrap that exemption and pull everyone in.

Also this week: Connecticut's October deadline for anyone selling AI hiring tools, and the FTC's proposed accuracy rules getting kicked by twenty-odd state prosecutors.

In focus: a German court just decided that your model file is itself an illegal copy of the music it learned from.