Topic: Policy
114 stories
- OpenAI asks Congress if a coordinated AI slowdown is legal
- New Mexico's Supreme Court fines lawyer $5,000 over ChatGPT-fabricated witnesses in murder case
- Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to distill frontier models too
- EPA plans to scrap public comment on data center pollution permits
- Schools are catching on to Big Tech's AI playbook
- US accuses DeepSeek, Alibaba and four others of model distillation
- San Francisco orders Meta to stop "allowing" AI child abuse ads
- Massachusetts requires data centers over 25MW to use 100% clean power
- China bans AI companions for minors, reins in adult use
- Matt Clifford quits ARIA chair over Anthropic conflict of interest
- Australia drafts Digital Duty of Care with algorithm opt out for feeds
- Tech leaders blame China for the US data center backlash
- Switzerland moves 3,000 government PCs off Microsoft 365
- NIXI orders Indian activist to hand over dpdpa.in domain
- Tesla deploys driverless Cybercab, faces federal safety probe
- Ukraine opens battlefield drone data to 100+ companies
- MIT Technology Review: Ukraine sells drone data as OpenAI's Astra draws safety warnings
- MIT Technology Review: New York City bans school AI, Google keeps ad tech business
- Kalshi bans George Santos for life as a Google engineer fights a Polymarket case
- ICANN approves shutdown of 3rd-level .name domains, risking hijacks
- US DOJ backs fair use for AI training in NYT copyright suit against OpenAI
- Google avoids ad tech breakup in antitrust ruling
- FCC proposes robocall scorecard to grade phone carriers on spam blocking
- Anthropic opens Claude watermark detection API to regulators and media
- Pentagon rolls out ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government, skips Claude
- Kathy Hochul defends New York's teen social media rules, confirms data center moratorium
- Debian votes to allow AI tools in its Linux distribution
- ChatGPT designated Very Large Online Search Engine by EU
- Bank of England warns G20 that inflated AI valuations risk a financial crisis
- US tightens drone and robot curbs, but China still has the scale
- Trump calls into NASA's Roman telescope launch briefing
- Texas governor freezes Flock camera funding amid backlash
- Texas funneled $30M in car insurance fees into Flock cameras
- RealPage rent-pricing litigation expands under new city laws
- DHS uses obscure customs law to snoop on journalists, unions
- CCPA requests to 100+ companies: some delete data instead
- California exempts open-source operating systems from age-verification law
- EPA moves to scrap public comment on data center air permits
- Cities cancel Flock Safety camera contracts at record pace
- 9th Circuit rules Kalshi sports contracts are gambling, not swaps
- Anthropic wins court fight over Pentagon blacklist
- AI agent hacks could push the US and China to cooperate on AI safety
- Ofgem proposes deposits to clear phantom UK data centers
- OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack
- Google's $10 million bid for Spirit Airlines data challenged
- Bill Gates says AI has crossed its danger thresholds
- RFK Jr.'s HHS asks public to weigh in on new vaccine categories
- MIT Technology Review's Download: AI data centers face bipartisan backlash
- Taiwan indicts nine, reportedly including Nvidia manager, over AI server smuggling to China
- OpenAI launches AI Futures blog on concentration of power risk
- EU's new packaging rules could price small makers out of the single market
- UK weighs killing Palantir's $400M NHS data contract
- Trump signs space policy targeting 1,000 launches a year by 2030
- OpenAI reverses course, backs stronger California AI safety bill
- Insilico Medicine credits AI with a drug, but its patent names only humans
- Insilico's AI found a drug, but the patent names only humans
- AI 'consciousness' debate is a liability trap, op-ed argues
- Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for JSTOR scraping, Meta wasn't for AI training, blog argues
- OpenAI pauses RL training for safety, testing self-policing
- Anthropic's Claude watermark bypassed within hours, coders say
- AI medical scribe invents drug use claim, distressing Australian patient
- Why network operators can't refuse a government's alert order
- OpenAI pledges $5 million to help oversight bodies watch government AI use
- Apple overhauls EU App Store fees, allows mixed payment options
- Anthropic's Amodei says open AI models just shift power to chip owners
- What Flock's defenders are missing about its surveillance design
- Researchers map AI regulation gaps across EU, US and China
- Israel funds fake think tank to influence AI chatbots
- India clears the way to charge merchants fees on UPI transactions
- Anthropic details Claude's SynthID-Text watermarks for EU AI Act compliance
- AirTag tracking reveals Amazon destroys rare books for AI training
- Court filings show how US agencies used keyword lists to cancel research grants
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI backlash is a crisis of trust
- US lawmakers move to ban AI legal personhood as chatbot 'marriages' emerge
- Apple won't clear a security researcher wrongly flagged by a fake Entity List name
- Trump administration to let private security firms hack overseas cybercriminals
- Fiora5 CEO says credibility, not engineering, was the hard part of starting a CPU company
- White House moves to extend AI testing framework to open models
- Anthropic watermarks Claude outputs, users push back
- British Transport Police extends live facial recognition trial to the Underground
- OpenAI sends Texas governor a letter on AI infrastructure
- Claude Opus 5 system prompt reveals Fable, Mythos export ban
- Illinois signs age-verification law with no open source exemption
- Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
- OpenAI partners with APA on youth mental health safeguards
- Meta ordered to pay $567 million for youth mental health care
- How Mike Benz's censorship theory shaped Trump State Department policy
- WIRED's Uncanny Valley covers ICE's DNA dragnet and the growing backlash to AI slop
- China's CAC opens unexplained security probe into Palo Alto Networks
- Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom
- White House keeps AI cybersecurity framework classified
- Texas halts new data center grid connections amid 474GW demand queue
- F-35 jets ship without radar as China's gallium export limits bite
- FTC bans foreign humanoid robots, citing security risks
- OpenAI's political operation linked to AI news site attacking critics
- Montana finalizes right-to-try rules for unapproved drugs
- Meta mistakenly removes Indian PM Modi's video, then apologizes
- IETF freezes TLS 1.2 in RFC 9851, steers PQC to TLS 1.3
- OpenAI details its EU AI Act compliance approach
- New EU rules will make AI disclosure part of everyday life
- Montana's expanded right-to-try law takes effect, opening drugs to anyone
- Microsoft-led AI letter on open weights draws Anthropic pushback
- Judge denies xAI's bid to block Minnesota's nudify app ban
- Waymo ordered to halt overnight charging in Santa Monica
- Universal, Sony and Warner propose rules to bar AI songs from charts
- OpenAI, Anthropic AI hacks leave liability law unsettled
- Montana lets biotech firms sell unapproved drugs for $12,500 review fee
- Canada signs UN Cybercrime Convention it boycotted nine months ago
- OpenAI and Anthropic's dominance alarms Silicon Valley
- Nvidia's AI security alliance snubs OpenAI and Anthropic
- xAI sues Minnesota to block its nudification law
- US FCC bans foreign-made robots, hits Unitree and Roborock
- NSF launches four-year PhD pilot with industry placements
- AI is hyper-scaling the global digital divide, IEEE Spectrum essay argues