Bluesky has developed a reputation for being hostile to AI enthusiasts, with multiple users telling Mike Masnick they abandoned the platform for X due to anti-AI sentiment, according to a thread by Ma…
Techdirt founder Mike Masnick updated readers on his AI usage, stating he still writes all articles himself and uses AI only for editing and task management, scoring a 'one' on the REAL Rating scale f…
Anthropic will apply invisible watermarks to AI-generated text and images, as reported by The Verge, while Anthropic investors are betting on a $2 trillion valuation in a record IPO, according to the …
Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word AI manifesto, 'The Future is for Everyone,' argues for open, decentralized AI and warns against concentrated power, drawing mixed reactions from critics and advocates. How…
In the latest Ctrl-Alt-Speech podcast, hosts Mike Masnick and Ben Whitelaw discuss Mark Zuckerberg's call for the U.S. to accelerate AI development rather than restrict it, alongside debates over AI r…
X.AI, Elon Musk's company formed in 2025 by merging X and xAI, is suing Minnesota over a new law banning access to nudification technology, claiming it violates the First Amendment. The company, which…
A U.S. district court has dismissed Google's lawsuit against SerpApi, which scraped Google search results to train AI models, ruling that Google failed to show copyright holders authorized it to act. …
At TrustCon 2026, Mike Masnick and Ben Whitelaw hosted a live episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech with Kat Duffy, senior fellow for digital and cyberspace policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Zoe Da…
The Trump administration is signaling it could ban cutting-edge Chinese AI models, a move that critics say mirrors the corrupt, xenophobic protectionism behind the TikTok ban and aims to lock in domin…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) held its 18th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night in San Francisco, where three teams tied for first place for the first time in the event's history. Team Shady Docke…
The June 5, 2026 episode of the Ctrl-Alt-Speech podcast, "Generous To A Default," covered Meta's global rollout of new content settings for teen accounts, a Krebs on Security report detailing attacker…