June marked the full enforcement of the EU AI Act, a bureaucratic low for many US-based AI labs who had to pull services from Europe temporarily. On the high side, Tesla’s Optimus and other humanoid robots demonstrated a “Step Change” in manual dexterity, performing complex warehouse tasks without human supervision. The month ended with a heated ethical debate: as AI becomes more physically capable, do we need to redefine labor laws to account for non-human workers?