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Don't Steal This Book

An empty tome listing nearly 10,000 authors — including Kazuo Ishiguro — calls out “theft” by AI companies as the UK government weighs sweeping changes to copyright law. It follows last year’s “silent album” stunt.

DOGE is no more, and in its wake, only chaos

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US blindsides states with surprise settlement in Live Nation/Ticketmaster trial

States seek mistrial, saying “sudden disappearance” of US will influence jury.

It looks like the DOJ isn't going to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster

The DOJ and Live Nation agreed to a tentative settlement, but dozens of State Attorneys General don't want to drop the lawsuit.

DOGE used ChatGPT to gut the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Elon Musk’s short-lived agency rolled into the NEH with the mandate to cancel grants that it deemed contrary to Donald Trump’s anti-DEI agenda. According to the New York Times, decisions about which grants to cancel weren’t made after careful analysis and deliberation. Instead, they were made with a ChatGPT prompt.

US privacy policy

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Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI?

Artificial intelligence is supercharging surveillance, and the law has not caught up with it.

Congress extends ISS and tells NASA to get moving on private space stations

We were happy to see the renewed commitment to transition from the ISS.

Anthropic CEO says refusal to pander to Trump caused Pentagon blowup.

In a scathing 1,600 word memo to employees sent on Friday, CEO Dario Amodei suggested Anthropic’s relationship with the government soured because, unlike OpenAI or its executives, “we haven’t donated to Trump” and “we haven’t given dictator-style praise to Trump.”

AI companies are spending millions to thwart this former tech exec’s congressional bid

A tech billionaire-backed super PAC is spending $125 million to undercut candidates pushing for AI regulation. New York's Alex Bores, a former tech executive himself, is one of them.

Iowa county adopts strict zoning rules for data centers, but residents still worry

Though the rules are among the strictest in the US, locals say they aren’t enough.

Hackers and internet outages hit Iran amid US air strikes

Users of a popular Iranian prayer app were flooded with phone notifications as U.S. air strikes hit Iran's biggest cities, killing the country's leader.