The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a policy statement on July 1 that would treat AI developers' undisclosed editorial shaping of chatbot responses as false advertising, a move critics say vio…
The U.S. Department of Justice cited a nonexistent Sixth Circuit case in a filing to argue that an ICE detainee should remain locked up, according to a federal judge. Judge Hala Y. Jarbou of the Weste…
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…
XAI, already facing a lawsuit for Grok's generation of child sexual abuse material, has sued user Terry Harwood for creating CSAM with the AI tool, arguing he must indemnify the company under the term…
The spread of local AI models that can run on personal computers or smartphones is making copyright enforcement harder, according to a report from Communia and analysis on the IPKat blog. The EU Copyr…
A ProPublica investigation into Texas oil refinery startup America First Refining, which secretly received investment from Donald Trump Jr., uncovered that the company's CEO John Calce had created a f…
Meta faces scrutiny over ad fraud, teen safety, and allowing Instagram photos to train AI without opt-out, while a teenager wins a landmark lawsuit against Meta and Google. Beijing considers restricti…
President Donald Trump is planning to meet with AI company executives to discuss the U.S. government taking financial stakes in their firms, with OpenAI reportedly proposing a 5% stake worth $42.6 bil…
The Premium Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Super Bundle, a twelve-course digital toolkit for learning AI and data science, is on sale for $37 via the Techdirt Deals Store, which is powered b…
Meta has introduced a $19.99 monthly subscription for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, limiting the 'conversation focus' feature to three hours per month unless users pay. The feature runs entirely on-devic…
Lawyers for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) were sanctioned by a federal judge after filing legal briefs containing fake citations generated by AI, and their corrected brief include…
Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz backed Donald Trump's 2024 campaign claiming he would protect AI, but Trump is now shutting down AI initiatives. The VCs' real motivation was acces…
Kotaku's coverage of AI in gaming has become dogmatic and pre-judges all uses of the technology, according to a Techdirt analysis. The outlet's writers express negativity toward AI tools in game devel…
The Trump administration's Department of Justice is intervening to protect Elon Musk's xAI from a lawsuit over pollution from its Memphis data center, arguing that shutting down the facility threatens…
The Trump administration forced Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models because the company hired cybersecurity expert Katie Moussouris, whom the administration views as a "radical D…
Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO, which includes Starlink and xAI, has been approved by U.S. regulators, generating $75 billion for Musk despite widespread criticism that the valuation is inflated and the compa…
Anthropic shut down access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after the Trump administration imposed export controls, treating the models like weapons. Amazon, a major investor in Anthropic, tipped…
Techdirt's weekly roundup highlights comments on AI replacing workers, with readers arguing CEOs should be replaced by AI due to high costs and poor decision-making, and on NCOSE's porn crackdown, cri…
Michigan lawmakers, led by Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin and Representative Haley Stevens, proposed the Protecting America From Chinese Cars Act, which would ban Chinese-badged vehicles from even …
Anthropic is accused of lying, fearmongering, and spreading doomsday nonsense in a Techdirt podcast episode. The episode also covers UK and Canadian proposals to restrict social media for children, Ap…