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On October 2, 2026, the Eighth Circuit temporarily blocked Minnesota’s law on AI-generated intimate images while xAI’s constitutional challenge proceeds. Legal teams should keep product controls in place; the order is a stay, not a merits ruling.

On September 30, 2026 Judge Amit Mehta dismissed Chegg and Penske Media antitrust suits over Google AI Overviews, holding that an expectation of search traffic is not an agreement. Counsel should separate the ruling from traffic planning.

On October 1, 2026 the SEC proposed Investment Advisers Act Release 7023, a crypto custody path for advisers and funds including conditional self-custody and state trust companies. It is not yet a final rule.

On September 30, 2026 the FTC confirmed a consumer-protection probe of OpenAI, Anthropic and the evaluator METR. Counsel should treat civil investigative demands as a near-term calendar item, not a distant headline.

Google filed challenges at the EU General Court on September 28, 2026 against two Commission DMA orders on search-data sharing and Android access for rival AI assistants. In-house counsel should calendar the 2027 compliance dates; an appeal does not automatically freeze them.

⚡ TL;DROn 28 September 2026 the Trump administration finalised a rollback of federal fuel-economy (CAFE) standards. New fleets must improve by up to...

⚡ TL;DRA US jury has ordered Apple to pay $5.7 billion to audio firm Taction Technology for infringing two haptics patents. Apple says it will...

On September 28, 2026 Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senate Democrats sent letters to the CEOs of Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft seeking disclosure of tax benefits claimed on AI and data-center spending under 2025 legislation. Law, tax and government-affairs teams at large technology firms and their suppliers should prepare for heightened scrutiny of capital-expenditure deductions.

The FTC issued an ANPRM on September 24, 2026 seeking comment on whether to update its Impersonation Rule to cover platform ad-optimization practices that further government and business scams.

On September 21, 2026, California-led states settled their antitrust challenge to Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, clearing a path to close while imposing five-year film-output, domestic-production and worker-protection commitments.