The Trump White House is keeping its new AI oversight framework secret, with no public release planned, according to three sources familiar with the discussions. The framework, which invites AI develo…
The Ninth Circuit ruled that an AI agent cannot be held liable for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), but a person who controls or directs the agent may be. The ruling comes amid incid…
The Ultimate Python and Artificial Intelligence Bundle, featuring 9 courses on data pre-processing, visualization, artificial neural networks, and the Keras framework, is on sale for $40 through the T…
Meta Platforms Inc. has paused its plan to charge a $20 per month Meta One Premium subscription for the 'conversation focus' feature on its AI glasses after customer backlash, according to a statement…
The Trump administration has expanded its protectionist campaign against Chinese technology to include robot vacuums, lawnmowers, and other software-controlled ground robots, according to a report fro…
Ukraine's battlefield openness, including a public leaderboard for drone teams and the TrophyLab platform for sharing captured Russian weapons intelligence, demonstrates that wide, rule-bound access t…
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…
Axon's AI-powered police report tools, Draft One and Form One, are being pitched as time-savers but have shown problems including hallucinations and factual errors, with a Utah officer's report falsel…
XAI has sued to block Minnesota's new law banning nudification technology, arguing it is an unconstitutional restriction on speech. The law, HF 1606, is overbroad and not limited to child sexual abuse…
Anthropic, the only major frontier AI lab that refused to sign an Nvidia-led open letter defending open-weight AI models, now argues it opposes a ban on such models while advocating restrictions that …
The FTC's open comment period on its Policy Statement Addressing AI Accuracy closes Friday, with critics arguing the policy is an unconstitutional attempt to let the agency punish AI systems for produ…
The Complete Machine Learning Bundle, featuring over 10 courses on topics including self-driving cars and speech recognition, is on sale for $30 through the Techdirt Deals Store, powered by StackComme…
AI systems reliably out-persuade expert humans, including professional canvassers and world championship debaters, in a series of four preregistered experiments involving 18,978 conversations from 6,9…
A federal judge dismissed Google's lawsuit against SerpAPI for scraping its search results, ruling that Google's DMCA 1201 anti-circumvention claim lacked a legitimate copyright basis. The court found…
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 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…