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Electronic Frontier Foundation to swap leaders as AI, ICE fights escalate

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Back in 2022 when Cindy Cohn, the executive director of a US digital rights nonprofit called the Electronic Frontier Foundation, started writing her memoir, Privacy’s Defender, she worried that people would think she was an “old fuddy duddy” still sounding alarms about government spying online. As one of EFF’s first litigators and then its longtime […]

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As teens await sentencing for nudifying girls, parents aim to sue school

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Two teens behind one of the earliest US high school deepfake scandals will be sentenced this week, but the case is unlikely to resolve families’ concerns about the school’s significantly delayed response. Earlier this month, the 16-year-old boys admitted to using AI tools to “nudify” images of 48 female classmates at Lancaster Country Day School

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Musk’s tactic of blaming users for Grok sex images may be foiled by EU law

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The European Union may soon ban nudify apps after Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok emerged as a prime example of the dangers of an AI platform failing to block outputs that sexualized images of real people, including children. In a joint press release, the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Civil Liberties committees confirmed that lawmakers voted

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Sustaining diplomacy amid competition in US-China relations

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The United States and China “are the two largest emitters of carbon in the world,” said Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, at a recent MIT seminar. “We need to work with each other for the good of both of our countries.” During the MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition presentation,

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Elon Musk’s xAI sued for turning three girls’ real photos into AI CSAM

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A tip from an anonymous Discord user led cops to find what may be the first confirmed Grok-generated child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) that Elon Musk’s xAI can’t easily dismiss as nonexistent. As recently as January, Musk denied that Grok generated any CSAM during a scandal in which xAI refused to update filters to block

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OpenAI’s own mental health experts unanimously opposed “naughty” ChatGPT launch

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OpenAI cannot escape the doom cloud swirling around its rollout of a text-based “adult mode” in ChatGPT. Late Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported that insiders confirmed that OpenAI’s “handpicked council of advisers on well-being and AI” were “freaking out” over the company’s plans to move ahead with “adult mode,” despite their urgent warnings. Back

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“Use a gun” or “beat the crap out of him”: AI chatbot urged violence, study finds

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An advocacy group said its study of 10 artificial intelligence chatbots found that most of them gave at least some help to users planning violent attacks and that nearly all failed to discourage users from violence. Several chatbot makers say they have made changes to improve safety since the tests were conducted between November and

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Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI

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Elon Musk’s xAI has lost its bid for a preliminary injunction that would have temporarily blocked California from enforcing a law that requires AI firms to publicly share information about their training data. xAI had tried to argue that California’s Assembly Bill 2013 (AB 2013) forced AI firms to disclose carefully guarded trade secrets. The

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AI startup sues ex-CEO, saying he took 41GB of email and lied on résumé

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Hayden AI, a San Francisco startup that makes spatial analytics tools for cities worldwide, has sued its co-founder and former CEO, alleging that he stole a large quantity of proprietary information in the days leading up to his ouster from the company in September 2024. In a lawsuit filed late last month in San Francisco

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Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

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Meta’s approach to user privacy is under renewed scrutiny following a Swedish report that employees of a Meta subcontractor have watched footage captured by Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses showing sensitive user content. The workers reportedly work for Kenya-headquartered Sama and provide data annotation for Ray-Ban Metas. The February report, a collaboration from Swedish newspapers Svenska

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