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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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EU Commission Finds TikTok in Breach of Digital Services Act Over Child Safety
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DARPA Flies AI-Controlled F-16 Converted From the Operational Fleet
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US safety regulators to develop new car door rules after at least 15 deaths linked to electronic door handles
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EU extends mass scanning of private messages to 2028 after a majority of lawmakers voted to kill it
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Nearly 200 Startups Tell Trump: Banning Chinese Open-Weight AI Will Cripple American Innovation
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Bipartisan 'AI Kill Switch Act' would let DHS shut down frontier models in emergencies
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EU Hits Google With Record €890 Million Digital Markets Act Fine
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White House Claims Moonshot Copied Anthropic's Fable to Build Kimi K3, but Researchers Say the Math Doesn't Work
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Anthropic doubles its AI safety political spending to $40 million the same week its model escaped containment
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A US AI lab that would profit from banning Chinese models says don't do it
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Utilities are signing a voluntary pledge to shield households from AI's surging electricity bill, but nothing enforces it
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The FCC is about to retroactively ban rebadged DJI gadgets for the first time, and products already on Amazon shelves would have to go
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Legalize distillation: a provocative proposal to close the US-China AI gap
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The US and China will hold their first direct AI talks in September, and Beijing's agenda reveals what it fears most
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The Trump administration is divided over whether to wall off Chinese AI models as corporate adoption accelerates
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A federal court ruled Apple cannot be forced to scan iCloud for CSAM, but the judge who agreed is asking Congress to change the law
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The US just threatened to sanction Chinese AI models directly, not just the chips that train them
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The US Army burned through a year of AI tokens in six weeks
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Trump's AI safety agency loses its third leader in under a year
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Trump's AI Advisors Turn on Each Other as China's Free Kimi K3 Exposes a Strategy With No Exit
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The EU's largest-ever Digital Services Act fine hits AliExpress for $629 million, bringing total DSA penalties against Chinese platforms near $860 million
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Elon Musk's xAI quietly installed 59 unpermitted gas turbines in Tennessee, and the pollution is hitting Black neighborhoods hardest
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The White House launched a clearinghouse called Gold Eagle to decide which companies get access to frontier AI models, sidelining the labs that built them
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The AI Safety Pledge Scorecard: Tracking Every Voluntary Commitment and Who Actually Kept It
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