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Trump Finally Issues Executive Order Countering State AI Laws

Report from Washington Post In Brief – After failed attempts to attach a federal moratorium on state AI regulation to “must pass” legislation, President Trump has issued an executive order that calls on government agencies to “check the most onerous and excessive”...

Another Call for an AI Pause, This Time Against “Superintelligence”

Report from Financial Times In Brief – A group of over 1000 individuals, led Nobel laureates, policymakers, and celebrities, have signed a public statement calling for the development of AI “superintelligence” to be halted until there is “broad scientific consensus...

Austrian Privacy Advocates File Criminal Complaint Against Clearview AI

Report from Courthouse News In Brief – Austrian data privacy advocacy group Nyob (None of Your Business) announced that it filed a criminal complaint with Austrian authorities aiming to have executives of US-based facial recognition firm Clearview AI held personally...

Indian Court Overturns Regulator Ban on WhatsApp Data-Sharing for Ads

Report from Medianama In Brief – India’s National Company Law Tribunal (NCLAT), a judicial appeals panel, has set aside part of an antitrust order from the country’s competition authority in ruling that Meta’s WhatsApp service could continue to share the user data...

Chat-GPT Output Similar Enough to Copyright Works for Trial to Proceed

Report from Courthouse News In Brief – A federal judge in New York has denied OpenAI’s motion to dismiss a direct copyright infringement claim brought by a group of authors who allege the AI giant violated federal copyright law by using their copyrighted works to...

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