AI Policy & Regulation News

The FTC has reached settlements totaling nearly $1 million with Cox Media Group, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works for falsely claiming their "Active Listening" service used smart device microphones to eavesdrop on conver…

A practical implementation pattern for building a secure AI agent harness for a bank, moving beyond theoretical design principles. The system is structured with five layers—Engineer, FastAPI Agent Portal, Policy Gateway,…

OpenAI has hired veteran political operative Chris Lehane, who calls himself a "master of disaster," to address a growing public relations crisis as negative public sentiment toward AI intensifies. Lehane aims to convinc…

Based solely on the provided text, the article reports that Democrats are criticizing former President Trump for underfunding cybersecurity initiatives while spending money on a ballroom and a January 6 "slush fund." Rep…

More than 30 states are asking a federal judge to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster by ordering the sale of the ticketing giant and a "sufficient number" of large amphitheaters, going beyond the terms of the Department o…

According to a recent preprint published in APSA Preprints, listening to "The Joe Rogan Experience" is a stronger predictor of voting for Donald Trump in the 2024 election than watching Fox News, even when controlling fo…

Several U.S. schools have canceled or pressured speakers to withdraw from graduation speeches due to student complaints about their political views, including controversial remarks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and…

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Cox Media Group, MindSift LLC, and 1010 Digital Works agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle allegations that they falsely claimed their "Active Listening" service cou…

AT&T has filed a lawsuit against California to end its obligation to provide landline phone service to all customers in its territory, arguing that maintaining the aging copper network costs $1 billion annually while onl…

A podcast episode of WIRED's "Uncanny Valley," which discusses Meta's recent layoffs and declining employee morale, Elon Musk's loss in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and Google's ambitious AI-driven changes to search annou…

In 2024, Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of abandoning the company's original non-profit mission to benefit humanity in favor of pursuing profits. After a nearly month-long …

Websites to make nuanced decisions about AI search crawlers rather than blocking or allowing them all indiscriminately. It distinguishes between crawlers used for search indexing, real-time AI answers, and AI training, r…

GardaWorld Federal Services has accelerated hiring for a warehouse detention center in Surprise, Arizona, despite an ongoing state lawsuit alleging that the facility was built for industrial storage, not human habitation…

Spotify has partnered with Universal Music Group to launch a paid add-on for Premium subscribers that allows fans to create AI-generated covers and remixes of songs, with a revenue share for participating artists. The de…

Meta settled a lawsuit with Kentucky's Breathitt County School District, which sought compensation for mental health harms linked to social media, following similar settlements by YouTube, Snap, and TikTok. The case was …

Zillow lost access to thousands of Chicago-area property listings after filing an antitrust lawsuit alleging that MLS provider MRED and brokerage Compass conspired to hide listings in a private network. The lawsuit claim…

London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a £50 million contract between the Metropolitan Police and the US tech company Palantir, citing a "clear and serious breach" of procurement rules because the police had only seriously cons…

Contentious debate surrounding the use of large language models (LLMs) in software development, particularly criticizing those who dismiss LLM tools without serious hands-on experience. It highlights the Rust programming…

The IEEE Standards Association has launched the IEEE Global Medical Mobile App Assessment and Registry, a publicly searchable directory that lists therapeutic medical apps vetted by experts for technical soundness, ethic…

The Seattle Shield is an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle Police Department that includes members from Facebook, Amazon, ICE, and other private and public entities. Established in 2009, the network sh…