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A ban on state AI laws could smash Big Tech’s legal guardrails
A ban on state AI laws could smash Big Tech’s legal guardrails

Senate Commerce Republicans have kept a ten year moratorium on state AI laws in their latest version of President Donald Trump's massive budget package. And a growing number of lawmakers and civil so...

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OpenAI is storing deleted ChatGPT conversations as part of its NYT lawsuit
OpenAI is storing deleted ChatGPT conversations as part of its NYT lawsuit

OpenAI says it’s forced to store deleted ChatGPT conversations “indefinitely” due to a court order issued as part of The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it. In a post on Thursday, Op...

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Google rejected giving publishers more choice to opt out of AI Search
Google rejected giving publishers more choice to opt out of AI Search

Google didn’t want to give publishers the choice to keep their content out of AI Search results because it’s “evolving into a space for monetisation.” That’s according to a newly disclosed i...

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Epic asks judge to make Apple let Fortnite back on the US App Store
Epic asks judge to make Apple let Fortnite back on the US App Store

Epic is asking District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to order Apple to review — and approve if compliant with Apple’s guidelines — Epic’s submission of Fortnite to the US App Store in a new co...

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Anthropic blames Claude AI for ‘embarrassing and unintentional mistake’ in legal filing
Anthropic blames Claude AI for ‘embarrassing and unintentional mistake’ in legal filing

Anthropic has responded to allegations that it used an AI-fabricated source in its legal battle against music publishers, saying its Claude chatbot made an “honest citation mistake.”

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Don’t delete that ‘Lopez Voice Assistant’ email — it’s about Apple’s Siri settlement
Don’t delete that ‘Lopez Voice Assistant’ email — it’s about Apple’s Siri settlement

If you’ve been wary after getting an email with the subject line “Lopez Voice Assistant Class Action Settlement,” that’s understandable — but it’s likely a notification that you’re owed ...

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Apple is looking at adding Perplexity and other AI search engines to Safari
Apple is looking at adding Perplexity and other AI search engines to Safari

Apple is “actively looking at” bringing AI search options to Safari. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, made the statement during Google’s antitrust trial on Wednesday, sayin...

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Warning systems for floods, hurricanes, and famine are suffering from Donald Trump’s data purge
Warning systems for floods, hurricanes, and famine are suffering from Donald Trump’s data purge

Within weeks of President Trump stepping into office, key health and environmental resources that doctors and farmers rely on started disappearing from federal websites. Trump was also quick to disman...

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Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-consumer, rights-trampling harassment machine
Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-consumer, rights-trampling harassment machine

In less than 100 days the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been converted from a media and telecom watchdog into a bizarre, rights-trampling grievance machine built for one purpose: to codd...

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US Judge Rules Google Holds Illegal Monopoly in Ad Tech
US Judge Rules Google Holds Illegal Monopoly in Ad Tech

A U.S. judge rules Google holds an illegal monopoly in ad tech, marking a major antitrust setback that could force big changes to its ad business.

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