Category: Artificial Intelligence
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The Retreat of the Open Internet
Self-preservation looks a lot like surrender from the outside.
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xAI Sues Colorado to Block AI Speech Regulation on First Amendment Grounds
AI’s lawsuit against Colorado doubles as the first major courtroom test of whether the government can tell an AI what…
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Alberta Bill Would Fine Political Deepfakes $10,000 Without Satire Exemptions
The bill makes no distinction between a fake video designed to suppress votes and a satirical meme poking fun at…
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OkCupid Gave 3M Users’ Photos to AI Firm, FTC Says
The regulatory price for handing three million people’s dating photos to a facial recognition startup turned out to be a…
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The $4 Tool That Can Unmask Anonymous Accounts, and the Habits That Give You Away
The throwaway account you made years ago is sitting in a database, waiting for a system that costs less than…
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Blackburn’s TRUMP AMERICA AI Act Repeals Section 230, Expands AI Liability, and Mandates Age Verification
The bill is framed as pro-innovation, but its actual architecture makes self-censorship and digital ID the only rational business decision…
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White House AI Framework Pushes Age Verification ID Mandate
Calling age verification requirements “privacy protective,” is a bit like calling a honeypot “security infrastructure.”
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Microsoft Copilot Health Centralizes Personal Medical Records
Microsoft built a product that knows your cholesterol levels, your step count, and your last hospital visit and faces none…
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Microsoft Copilot Update Hijacks Default Browser Links
Microsoft’s new “context preservation” keeps you from losing the thread of your conversation and keeps you inside Microsoft’s browser engine,…
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How Grok’s Football Roasts Put X in the Crosshairs of Britain’s Online Censorship Law
The episode handed British regulators the pretext they’d been waiting for to wire censorship directly into the software itself.
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Australia’s “eSafety” Commissioner Threatens App Stores Over AI Age Verification Deadline
The same government that already bars under-16s from social media is now coming for AI chatbots, app stores, and search…
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Samsung Bakes Perplexity AI Into Galaxy S26 OS, Raising Privacy Concerns
The AI era’s defining feature isn’t intelligence; it’s installation without asking.