David Sacks says Trump's AI EO aims to ease companies' compliance burden and that the administration is working with Congress on a common AI oversight standard
Trump warns America can't regulate itself into defeat Bobby Allyn / NPR : Trump tech adviser David Sacks under fire over vast AI investments Samantha Dorisca / AfroTech : A New Executive Order By Pres...
While facial recognition tech remains unregulated at the US federal level, 23 states have passed or expanded laws to restrict mass scraping of biometric data
Bobby Allyn / NPR : LinkedIn: Pete Fussey . Bluesky: @eff.org . Forums: r/technology LinkedIn: Pete Fussey : Interviewed for this NPR story on US State-level initiatives to regulate biometrics in the...
The White House says TikTok's threat to shut down is a “stunt” as there is “no reason for TikTok or other companies to take actions” before Trump takes office
Here's The Only Workaround For 170 Million American Users Fatimah Quadri / The ICIR : TikTok halts US operations amid Trump's reinstatement push Niamh Shackleton / UNILAD : TikTok hints that US ban is...
Donald Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as Commerce Secretary
a sign of crypto's new political clout Dan Alexander / Forbes : ‘The Most Hated Guy On Wall Street’: The Unspoken Story Around Howard Lutnick, Trump's Pick For Commerce Secretary Wall Street Journal :...
The US FTC adopts its final “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up, after proposing the rule in 2023
WOOT. … Rebekah Valentine / IGN : FTC New ‘Click to Cancel’ Rule Will Make it Easier to Cancel Subscription Services Justin Bachman / Payments Dive : FTC unveils final ‘click-to-cancel’ rule for consu...
After the House vote, Chinese officials say the US has shown “robber's logic” toward TikTok, and Washington must “stop unfairly suppressing foreign companies”
TIKTOK IS LESS OF A DANGER TO THE USA THAN META (FACEBOOK!), WHICH IS A TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. Jessica Kwong / Metro.co.uk : Trump's ex-treasury secretary is trying to buy TikTok amid ban threat Mo...
Twitter dropped the “Government-funded” and “China state-affiliated” labels from accounts of media organizations and journalists, including NPR, BBC, and Xinhua
Twitter dropped the “Government-funded” and “China state-affiliated” labels, which implies government involvement …
Twitter replaces the week-old “US state-affiliated media” label on NPR's account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as “Government Funded”
Twitter removed the “state-affiliated media” label it had affixed on NPR's account this week …
Twitter adds a “US state-affiliated media” label to NPR's account, seemingly contradicting Twitter's previous policy that used NPR as an example of an exception
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Twitter adds a “state-affiliated media” label to NPR's account, seemingly contradicting Twitter's own policies, which used NPR as an example of an exception
Twitter added a warning to NPR's Twitter account on Tuesday, declaring it as “state-affiliated media,” …