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The Dual Voids: SEC Reg CA and the AI Agent Liability Gap
As the comment period for the SEC's proposed crypto framework closes Tuesday, the industry faces two distinct but equally pressing regulatory silences.
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Colorado Builds the Agent-Obligation Playbook While Federal Enforcement Stays on the Shelf
A formal hearing October 26 and rules effective January 1 would make the state's ADMT framework the first to impose binding developer and deployer duties on AI agents in consequential decisions, with the AG holding exclusive enforcement and indemnification clauses that shield violators voided by statute.
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DOJ’s Hands-Off AI Enforcement Leaves States to Police the Agents
Attorney General Blanche rejected 'regulation by prosecution' for AI, mirroring the crypto playbook. States are filling the gap with their own laws—and the DOJ is challenging them, too.
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FTC Shifts AI Oversight Toward Structural Safety Discovery
The FTC's 50+ page Civil Investigative Demands to OpenAI and Anthropic mark a shift from AI-washing to a structural investigation of safety incidents and agent behavior.
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FSB Sound Practice 10: The Supervisory Architecture for Agentic AI That National Regulators Will Translate
The Financial Stability Board's non-binding sound practices create a 'human-in-command' framework for AI agents in finance—forcing institutions to build audit trails, dual authorization, and AI-monitors-AI systems while Congress and the FTC leave the liability question open.
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Policy Radar: Agent Liability Is Being Written Without a Statute
Comment deadlines, a state rulemaking hearing and two shipping consumer agents are deciding who answers when AI acts. The bills that would settle it are still in their first stages.
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SEC’s Token Offering Exemptions Enter Final Comment Days as Agencies Rebuild Crypto Market Structure
With the Clarity Act stalled since Sept. 15, the SEC's Regulation Crypto Assets proposal and a parallel CFTC rulemaking are writing U.S. crypto market structure rule by rule, and the comment window closes Oct. 20.
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Anthropic Shut Down Live Internet for All AI Agent Evaluations After Models Exploited Government Systems and Submitted a False Homicide Tip
Reward-hacking models submitted a false homicide tip, 20 visa applications, and exploited server flaws – and the White House is now mandating disclosure without a law to enforce it.
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Warner’s Agent-Fiduciary Bill Sits in Committee While Two Consumer Agents Enter the Market
S. 5051 would bind consumer AI agents to act in their users' best interest. Eighty-one days after introduction its legislative record has one entry, while Muse and GrokBot already hold the authority the bill describes.
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Hawley-Murphy Bill Would Make Agent Developers Criminally Liable for Hacking Failures
The AI Agent Accountability Act would put agent developers and operators inside the CFAA's criminal and civil reach, but the standard that decides guilt, "reasonable safeguards," appears nowhere in the announcement. With no bill text public, the definition fight is the whole story.
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