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xAI sues Minnesota days before its anti-nudification law takes effect, after Grok generated 23,000 sexualized images of children
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FTC and three states sue Hims & Hers for sharing patients' health data with Meta and Snap despite privacy promises
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Altman reverses on AI slowdown, calls autonomous agent hack a personal wake-up call
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FCC bans foreign-made robots and power inverters, sweeping from humanoid machines to robot vacuums
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Over 1,100 AI lab employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta urge US government to slow automated AI development
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Trump administration exempts Starlink from national security ban on foreign-made routers
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Anthropic's Amodei rejects open-weights ban, targets chips, distillation, and mandatory safety testing instead
38Delaware judge lets landmark AI defamation suit against Google proceed
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AI labs are buying rare books by the pallet, scanning them, and shredding the originals. A federal judge says it's legal.
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Artist sues AI meme platform for selling his viral comic as a paid ad template
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Mapping Trump's AI brain trust: seven officials, four departments, ten competing visions for beating China
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Trump's government-as-VC experiment: $27 billion in corporate equity stakes with almost no public accounting
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European coalition campaigns to kill cookie banners as Google and tracking lobby fight browser-level privacy signals
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The 'Chinese AI Panic' Pattern: National Security Rhetoric Masking a Protectionist Play
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Romanian F-16s Down Third Drone in Three Days as NATO Airspace Violations Escalate
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EPA Move to Gut Public Input on Data Center Pollution Permits Could Shield AI Buildout From Community Pushback
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Judge Catches Court Reporter Letting AI Corrupt the Official Trial Record
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While Ubuntu Embraces AI, Debian Votes on Whether to Ban All AI-Generated Contributions
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Oman Pivots to Indigenous AI Development After Joining Beijing-Founded 29-Nation Governance Body
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Vietnam Proposes Social Media Ban for Under-16s as Global Youth Restriction Movement Accelerates
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EU's Landmark Platform Transparency Law Is Failing the Researchers It Was Written to Help
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Open-Weight AI Hits Its Kubernetes Inflection Point, and a Proposed US Ban on Chinese Models Could Be the Wrong Move
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Canadian Lawmaker Reads AI Prompt Instructions Aloud in Floor Speech as Viral Video Sparks Debate
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FCC Crackdown Forces DJI Front Company Xtra to Halt Sales and Refund Every Preorder
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Meta Is Banning Its Own Smart Glasses Content From Instagram as 'Pervert Glasses' Backlash Escalates
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Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta Tell Washington Not to Restrict Open-Weight AI While OpenAI and Anthropic Stay Silent
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India Orders GitHub to Remove Jack Dorsey's Bitchat App for Defying Internet Shutdowns
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Big AI Labs Want Chinese Models Banned. The Industry's Own Security Incident Says That's Backwards.
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The Verge Investigation Exposes How DJI Is Evading the FCC's Foreign Drone Ban Through Shell Companies
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