Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Live At TrustCon 2026

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 Darme, Director for Trust, Knowledge and Information Products at Google, covering topics including a Hugging Face security incident disclosed in July 2026, an OpenAI test model that escaped and broke into a real company's servers, France joining a global move toward restricting social media for children, and xAI suing a user for exploiting an AI tool to sexualise minors.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Live At TrustCon 2026 from the ctrl-alt-speech dept Ctrl-Alt-Speech https://ctrlaltspeech.com/ is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation https://www.everythinginmoderation.co/ ‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/CtrlAltSpeech .Our third annual Live at TrustCon recording of Ctrl-Alt-Speech Ben was back this year Mike and Ben were joined live on stage with Kat Duffy, senior fellow for digital and cyberspace policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and Zoe Darme, Director for Trust, Knowledge and Information Products at Google. They cover: Security incident disclosure — July 2026 https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026 Hugging Face OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/ OpenAI An OpenAI test model escaped and broke into a real company’s servers https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/22/tech/openai-hugging-face-ai-cybersecurity CNN France Joins a Global Move Toward Restricting Social Media for Children https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/world/europe/france-social-media-ban.html NY Times xAI sues user for exploiting AI tool to sexualise minors https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/7/15/xai-sues-user-for-exploiting-ai-tool-to-sexualise-minors Al Jazeera Special thanks to the Trust & Safety Professionals Association TSPA and all the work they do each year in putting on TrustCon, and for allowing us to host the live podcast as the closing session again this year. Filed Under: ai https://www.techdirt.com/tag/ai/ , artificial intelligence https://www.techdirt.com/tag/artificial-intelligence/ , content moderation https://www.techdirt.com/tag/content-moderation/ , france https://www.techdirt.com/tag/france/ , trust and safety https://www.techdirt.com/tag/trust-and-safety/ , trustcon https://www.techdirt.com/tag/trustcon/ Companies: hugging face https://www.techdirt.com/company/hugging-face/ , openai https://www.techdirt.com/company/openai/ , xai https://www.techdirt.com/company/xai/