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Google CEO Sundar Pichai has joined the ranks of technologists calling for regulations on AI technology, which has exploded into prominence in the past year.

California bill AB 587, touted by Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom as a fix for “disinformation” on social media, has been challenged by a First Amendment lawsuit brought by podcaster and journalist Tim Pool, satirical website the Babylon Bee, and Minds.com, a free-speech friendly social media platform.

Disclosures brought about by Missouri and Louisiana’s tech First Amendment lawsuit against the federal government reveal that the U.S. State Department actively marketed government-funded online censorship tools to Big Tech companies.

Amid a developing war with Substack thought to be triggered by its upcoming Twitter-like feature, CEO and owner Elon Musk has hinted at his longstanding ambition to turn Twitter into an “everything app,” including video chat and payment services.

Hundreds of former officials at the CIA, FBI, and DHS were hired at Big Tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter between 2017 and 2022, an analysis of LinkedIn data has found.

The FTC’s efforts to block XBox owner Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision-Blizzard, one one the world’s largest video game companies, faces a major hurdle in the continued global dominance of Sony over the video game console market.

FBI documents obtained by the Heritage Foundation through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show the Bureau associating a wide variety of internet slang with “extremism.” According to the FBI, words like “based” and “Chad” are signs of violent extremism.

The Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), an offshoot of the Democrat-aligned Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, is pressing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to put the brakes on OpenAI.

Midjourney, which along with Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion and Open AI’s DALL-E is one of the leading AI image generating services, has shut down its free edition as it attempts to clamp down on the spread of deepfake images.

Tell me if this story sounds familiar: there’s a national security panic. Foreign adversaries threaten the homeland. Petty bipartisan disputes are put aside, and draft legislation is rushed out. At last, Congress is doing something.

The AI gold rush in the tech industry continues, representing one of the few growth areas in an industry that is facing cutbacks elsewhere.

A loud voice of doom in the debate over AI has emerged: Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, who is calling for a total shutdown on the development of AI models more powerful than GPT-4, owing to the possibility that it could kill “every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth.”

The outrage over the draconian RESTRICT Act, marketed to the public as a “TikTok ban,” is rapidly rising.

The Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act or RESTRICT Act, sold to the public as a “TikTok ban,” does far more than simply ban the Chinese-linked platform.

The IRS, not known for engaging in house calls, paid a visit to the home of Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi while he was giving testimony to Congress about the government’s efforts to control online discourse.

Researchers at market-leading AI firm OpenAI and at the University of Pennsylvania are predicting that up to 80 percent of jobs could be impacted by AI technologies, which are rapidly increasing in sophistication.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today sued Binance Holding Ltd., alleging it violated U.S. rules on futures and derivatives trading — despite the fact that Binance has no formal presence in the U.S.

The past several months have revealed a huge amount of government pressure on social media platforms to censor public content. New emails revealed through Missouri v. Biden show the administration went further, urging Facebook to censor private communications on its WhatsApp messaging service too.

While most lawmakers focused on TikTok’s ties to communist China at today’s hearing with its CEO, Shou Zi Chew, Congresswomen Doris Matsui (D-CA) and Yvette Clarke (D-NY) focused on what, for them, appeared to be a more important priority: stopping algorithms from becoming racist.

The General Services Administration (GSA), the agency tasked with the highly sensitive task of overseeing access to many of the federal government’s digital services, failed to implement a new system of secure logins for government officials, breaching federal security guidelines in the process — because its officials were concerned about “discrimination.”

The government’s confidential witness in its attempt to put a right-wing meme maker in jail is making stuff up. That seems to be the conclusion reached by both congressional Republicans and a left-wing journalist, Luke O’Brien, who said the witness was “full of it.”

Researchers at Stanford University have built an AI that they claim matches the capabilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which currently leads the market in consumer-facing AI products. However, while powerful AIs seem to be easy and cheap to build, running them is a different matter.

Google has finally killed off one of its most infamous product failures, the “Google Glass” wearable that promised a smart glass revolution but failed to deliver.

AI technologies invented by scientists at the University of British Columbia and B.C. Cancer has succeeded in discovering a previously-unknown treatment pathway for an aggressive form of liver cancer, designing a new drug to treat it in the process.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a “little bit scared” of AI — not for the usual, apocalyptic reasons, but for a more leftist concern: its potential to spread “disinformation.”

The Biden administration recently changed rocket procurement rules for Phase 3 of the National Security Space Launch System — the program the United States government uses to launch payloads into space — in a way that may provide significant financial benefits to Blue Origin and its founder, Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos.

Hardware giant Nvidia, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of microchips and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), has released a new, slightly less powerful version of its mainstream chips to comply with restrictions on microchip sales in China.

As startups race to integrate AI into their products, they are running into a major roadblock: spiraling costs, caused by the immense computing power required to process AI queries.

Microsoft, which is devoting its resources to the AI race, and which has a head start thanks to its bankrolling of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, has reportedly spent a figure “probably larger” than several hundred million dollars to assemble the computing power needed to support the AI company’s projects.

NewsGuard, the establishment “news-rating” project that presents itself to the public as an impartial authority on the trustworthiness of news publishers, is telling reporters that it is not “government funded” — despite receiving a $750,000 contract from the Department of Defense to track “misinformation.”

Prof. Adam Candeub, who led President Trump’s efforts to reinterpret Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), Big Tech’s “get-out-jail-free card” in censorship lawsuits, warned the House Judiciary Committee that some bipartisan antitrust efforts could empower the federal government and Silicon Valley’s axis of censorship.

Thanks to leaks, lawsuits, the Twitter Files, and congressional inquiry, the sheer size and complexity of the “disinformation” industry is starting to be exposed.

House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) easily disproved a false allegation from Democrat Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) during a hearing of the new House Subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government.

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), slammed collusion between the federal government and Twitter to censor American citizens at a Judiciary Committee hearing today, calling particular attention to the collaboration between intelligence agencies and the social media platform.

Rancor broke out in the opening minutes of the Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the weaponization of the federal government after the committee’s top Democrat accused journalists of “threatening” Twitter employees.

The government of the Netherlands is joining a U.S.-led effort to restrict the export of semiconductor chips to China, a campaign aimed at slowing the growth of the communist country’s military.