Government

U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin ruled that the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal. The court found the government's actions violated the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act. Continue Reading →

The White House does not plan to publicly release its new framework for evaluating advanced AI models, three sources told Axios. That means the government has written the standard by which the most powerful systems in the world will be judged and shared it only with the companies invited into the room. Continue Reading →

Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act. It would require covered AI developers to maintain controls that can throttle inference, restrict users or capabilities, suspend service, or shut down a system. Continue Reading →

OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to develop prototype frontier AI capabilities for national security use. According to the official DoD announcement, the contract is a fixed amount, prototype, "other" transaction agreement awarded under the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO). Continue Reading →

A Senate working group has proposed $32 billion in annual funding for AI programs, covering a wide range of areas from infrastructure to national security risk assessments. In theory, this "roadmap" sets the stage for future legislation, identifying key investment areas to keep the US competitive in the global AI landscape. Continue Reading →

The U.S. House of Representatives has announced that it will no longer permit the use of TikTok on any devices under its management. The ban was announced by the House's Chief Administrative Office on Tuesday, following the introduction of legislation that would prohibit the use of TikTok on all federal devices. Security issues make the app "high risk," according to the House cybersecurity office. Continue Reading →

When government regulators scared Facebook out of its Libra/Diem cryptocurrency project a while back, I didn't think too much about it. The original project was ambitious. Libra was designed to be a stablecoin and was backed by deposits of real cash to be contributed to the Libra Association, a supporting plutocracy with a membership fee of $10 million. Founding members got an option to become validator node operators, a vote on the Libra Council, and could earn interest on their investment. Continue Reading →

The White House would like to get to the bottom of this whole "is cryptocurrency going to destroy the climate or not" thing. The Office of Science and Technology Policy announced it's putting together a report that assesses whether digital assets “impede or advance efforts to tackle climate change” and makes moves toward a “clean and reliable electricity grid.” Continue Reading →

Imagine a universe where Twitter is fully regulated, an alternative Twitterverse. This is not a place that will ever exist, but sometimes it's helpful to simplify complex issues to help think them through. What would your perfect Twitterverse be like? What rules and regulations would have to exist? Would the world be a better place if your imaginary Twitterverse existed, or would it just present us with a different set of complex issues? Continue Reading →

Facebook is being pilloried for its unwillingness to remove a paid advertisement by President Trump’s reelection campaign after Facebook was notified by the Biden campaign that the ad contained false statements about Joe Biden and his son. On the surface, this seems simple, and Facebook’s decision not to remove the ad seems wrong. But there is much more to the story. Shelly Palmer talks with Kerry Drew and Bianca Peters on Fox 5 New York's Good Day. Original Airdate: October 15, 2019 Continue Reading →