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In brief Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal approved an Eesti.ai advisory council proposal on June 17 to create an “AI…
The NO FAKES Act is supposed to target harmful AI-generated impersonations. But in reality, it will make it easier to…
Six years ago, Richard Hershey was distributing religious leaflets on a public sidewalk in a public park surrounding a public…
from the speak-up-now dept You have less than a week to weigh in on Brendan Carr’s obviously bullshit retaliatory censorial…
In brief Nvidia, Carnegie Mellon, and UC Berkeley have released ENPIRE, a framework that lets AI coding agents run the…
From yesterday’s decision in Commonwealth v. Brown, written by Justice Kevin Dougherty, joined by Justices Sallie Updyke Mundy, Kevin Brobson,…
In brief Trace Finance raised a $32 million Series A round led by CoinFund, with backing from Coinbase Ventures, Haun…
from the have-we-tried-being-less-evil? dept The US military has engaged in extrajudicial killings via drone strikes since it was first shown…
Russian propagandists asserted in March 2022 that the U.S. was funding bioweapons laboratories in Ukraine as a justification for their…
In brief GLAAD says AI systems are already causing disproportionate harm to LGBTQ people through bias, misinformation, and discrimination. The…
Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz…
New York, June 17, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Mozambican authorities to return the equipment of prominent investigative…