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U.S. lawmakers are preparing to introduce a bill that will give the government the ability to trigger an emergency shutdown of artificial intelligence models that may cause harm to the public. In what might sound like it’s veering too close to Hollywood …
France to become first EU nation to ban social media for children under 15
French lawmakers today voted in favor of banning social media use for children under the age of 15, making it the first nation in the European Union to introduce an age limit in line with legislation that is slowly taking hold globally. …
Anthropic settles with authors and publishers for $1.5B in landmark copyright case
A federal judge today approved a $1.5 billion settlement awarded to authors and publishers whose works were used by Anthropic PBC to train the AI chatbot, Claude, in what is the largest copyright class action settlement in history. Judge William Alsup issued …
EU paves way for banning social media for children
The European Union today moved closer to a ban on social media for children across its 27 member states in what will become the most meaningful effort so far to protect young people from the dangers of spending too much time online. …
Palantir CEO Alex Karp doesn’t hold back in interview as he rails against AI industry
Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp appeared to go into meltdown mode during an interview with CNBC today where for 20-odd minutes he went off script after being asked to discuss his company’s ongoing deal with chip maker Nvidia Corp. The …
Supreme Court rules constitutional privacy protections apply to geofence warrants
The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that law enforcement’s use of warrants to collect large amounts of cellphone location data requires privacy protections under the Fourth Amendment. The case centered on a bank robbery, where prosecutors relied in part on cellphone location …
Google settles lawsuit over social media harm
Google LLC-owned YouTube today reached a settlement with a Florida-based minor in a social media addiction case, one of many trials that will take place as social media platforms face growing scrutiny for a mental health crisis in the young. The suit …
With chatbot regulation, Canada proposes a ban on social media for under 16s
The government of Canada announced today that it’s mulling a ban on social media for children under 16, though unlike some other countries that have already introduced such a ban, Canada has said the social media platforms can keep serving children if …
In policy paper, OpenAI diverges from White House on AI safety
OpenAI Group PBC’s newly released proposal for how advanced artificial intelligence should be regulated differs slightly from the Trump administration’s executive order, also released this week. Released Tuesday, OpenAI’s paper, “Democratic Governance of Frontier AI: A blueprint for a federal framework,” asks …
Florida AG sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over claims the technology is dangerous and exploits its users
Florida today became the first U.S. state to sue OpenAI Group PBC and its chief executive, alleging that its product ChatGPT can be harmful to its users and that the company has failed to make clear these dangers to the public. “Today, …