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Trump loses more control over AI regulation as Illinois passes landmark law

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A few days after President Donald Trump abruptly canceled a plan that would have given the federal government power to vet frontier AI models over fears that it might hobble innovation, Illinois lawmakers passed the nation’s strongest AI safety law. On Wednesday, the Illinois legislature passed SB 315. If Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signs the […]

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Trump loses more control over AI regulation as Illinois passes landmark law

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Nvidia CEO wants Taiwan to be center of “AI revolution,” not US

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In a splashy move that signals that Taiwan remains irreplaceable to the AI industry’s short-term and long-term goals, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced Wednesday that his chip company will invest $150 billion a year to make sure Taiwan remains at the “epicenter” of the “AI revolution.” “This is where the chips come, packaging comes, this

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FBI easily nabs man selling sexy deepfakes who used his own photo in profile

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The earliest arrests under the Take It Down Act (TIDA) suggest that cops don’t have to work too hard to identify people illegally posting and selling nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes of women online. Last week, the FBI arrested two men after visiting porn websites and clicking on hashtags like #AI #Deepfakes or video titles like “AI_tits”

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Trump canceled AI safety testing EO after snub from tech CEOs

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President Donald Trump abruptly canceled an event on Thursday just hours before he was scheduled to sign an executive order granting the government the power to test frontier AI models before their public release. As The New York Times explained, Trump had been hoping that top executives from leading AI firms would attend the signing.

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Tech researchers are suing the Trump administration over the future of online safety

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Since its earliest days back in office, the Trump administration has been going after researchers who study and try to counter hate speech, harassment, propaganda, and disinformation online. Now, some of those researchers are fighting back. Last week their lawsuit—which could have global repercussions for online safety and free speech—made its first appearance in court.

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Electrical utility megamerger is all about the data centers

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A proposed merger of the largest utility in the country by market value, NextEra Energy, with the sixth-largest, Dominion, would create a megacompany at a time when data centers and rapid increases in electricity demand are reshaping the industry. The proposal, announced Monday morning and contingent on state and federal regulatory approval, would result in

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Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date

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An attempt to pressure Meta into removing a critical post from a Chicago Facebook group called “Are We Dating the Same Guy” may end in sanctions for lawyers whose takedown arguments appeared to rely on fake AI citations to support doxing claims. The case had already been dismissed with prejudice by a district court, which

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Elon Musk loses trial accusing Sam Altman, OpenAI of stealing a charity

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Elon Musk took too long to file his lawsuit that accused OpenAI of stealing a charity, a nine-person jury unanimously decided Monday. Musk sued OpenAI in 2024 for making a “fool” out of him after Musk donated $38 million to kickstart OpenAI as a nonprofit only to later be blindsided when OpenAI created a for-profit arm

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The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets

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For most of the past year, it looked like prediction markets had kicked off a new golden age of fraud. On Polymarket, traders raked in fortunes from suspiciously timed bets on geopolitical events like the raid on Venezuela and the Iran War. It wasn’t clear whether the US government would bother pursuing some of the

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