President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”
Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches Michael Kan / PCMag : Trump Signs Executive Order to Go After ‘Burdensome’ State AI Laws Poligirlsayswhat / Baller A...
Airbnb makes its temporary ban on parties at rented properties, introduced in 2020, permanent, saying the ban “became much more than a public health measure”
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Reddit says it has banned nearly 7,000 subreddits since June, resulting in an 18% drop in users posting hateful content
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Experts say “Clean Network” plan, as it stands now, is merely bluster, with no technical details, no reference to the legislative tools needed to implement it
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Despite being banned in China, YouTube has automatically removed comments with certain phrases that are insulting to the Communist Party, calls it an error
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White House issues 10 principles for US agencies to consider when making rules for the use of AI in the private sector but says they should avoid “overreach”
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Microsoft says it denied a California law enforcement request to use its facial recognition tech over bias concerns, but it has sold the tech to a US prison
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EU publishes seven guidelines for developing ethical AI applications including being accountable, sustainable, explainable, privacy-respecting, and unbiased
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European Parliament approves the Copyright Directive, a controversial law that includes Article 11, dubbed the “link tax”, and Article 13, the “upload filter”
New copyright rules that include some payment to publishers—Toughest in world privacy rules—New state laws on terrorist content/hate speech, EU directive coming—Repeated privacy/antitrust enforcement....
400K+ items, making up about a third of Amazon's ~$6B in annual sales in India, may disappear from Amazon India, while it works to meet new compliance rules
and a big one is in India Jon Russell / TechCrunch : Amazon and Flipkart pull 100,000s of products to comply with new Indian law John Adams / PaymentsSource : How politics are carving up the global pa...