Sources say the UK government (via the Home Office) wants Apple, Google and other tech companies to block explicit images by default at the OS level to protect children and require adults to verify their ages.
rumored 1 article 2025-12-15
UK government Home Office Apple Google other tech companies
Sources: the UK government wants Apple, Google, and others to block explicit images at the OS level by default to protect kids and have adults verify their ages
Financial Times · 2025-12-15 · #6
Suleyman addresses the need for and approaches to regulating AI.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-14
Mustafa Suleyman AI regulation
Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on defining superintelligence, its application in the medical field, universal basic income, regulation, and more
Bloomberg · 2025-12-14 · #20
Mustafa Suleyman discusses and attempts to define the concept of superintelligence in a Q&A.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-14
Mustafa Suleyman superintelligence
Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on defining superintelligence, its application in the medical field, universal basic income, regulation, and more
Bloomberg · 2025-12-14 · #20
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission withdraws its 2020 guidance on 'actual delivery' of digital assets to help enable broader access to regulated crypto markets.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-14
US CFTC 2020 guidance on 'actual delivery' of a digital asset regulated crypto markets
The US CFTC withdraws its 2020 guidance on the “actual delivery” of a digital asset, aiming to support broader access to regulated crypto markets
Bitcoin Magazine · 2025-12-14 · #19
Suleyman comments on universal basic income during the interview.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-14
Mustafa Suleyman universal basic income
Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on defining superintelligence, its application in the medical field, universal basic income, regulation, and more
Bloomberg · 2025-12-14 · #20
Authors cannot opt out of having 'Ask This Book' applied to their works on the Kindle iOS app.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-14
Authors Ask This Book
Amazon rolls out Ask This Book to the Kindle iOS app, letting readers ask questions about plot or characters; authors can't opt out
PCMag · 2025-12-14 · #3
GlobalFoundries will leave the Nasdaq 100 Index as part of the annual reconstitution effective before the December 22 market open.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-13
GlobalFoundries Nasdaq 100
Seagate and Western Digital, with stocks each up 200%+ in 2025, will join Nasdaq 100 before the December 22 market open; GlobalFoundries will leave the index
Bloomberg · 2025-12-13 · #2
The executive order signals that federal regulators may withhold federal funding or take other measures against states that maintain AI laws deemed inconsistent with the federal approach.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-13
President Trump states state AI laws federal regulators
David Sacks says Trump's AI executive order aims to ease companies' compliance burden.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-13
David Sacks Trump AI executive order
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
Bloomberg · 2025-12-13 · #8
The order declares a goal of a single, "minimally burdensome" national AI regulatory framework to avoid a patchwork of differing state laws.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-13
President Trump one minimally burdensome national standard federal AI regulation
David Sacks says the administration is working with Congress to develop a common AI oversight standard.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-13
Trump administration Congress common AI oversight standard
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
Bloomberg · 2025-12-13 · #8
President Trump issues an AI executive order directing federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding from states that pass 'the most onerous and excessive' AI laws.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-13
Trump federal agencies states passing onerous AI laws federal funding
Trump's AI executive order directs federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding from states passing “the most onerous and excessive laws” around AI
Washington Post · 2025-12-13 · #9
Google removed dozens of AI-generated videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-13
Google AI videos depicting Disney characters YouTube
Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links
Variety · 2025-12-13 · #23
Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at and dismiss President Trump's executive order aimed at reining in state AI laws.
denied 1 article 2025-12-13
Policymakers behind key state AI bills Trump executive order
Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump
Axios · 2025-12-13 · #7
Some Republican governors are pushing ahead with their own state AI bills despite the President's executive order.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-13
Some GOP governors state AI bills
Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump
Axios · 2025-12-13 · #7
President Trump issues a new executive order aimed at reining in state AI laws.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-13
President Trump state AI laws
Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump
Axios · 2025-12-13 · #7
President Trump issues an executive order establishing a single national AI framework and limiting states' ability to set their own AI regulations.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-13
President Trump single national AI framework state AI regulations
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
Bloomberg · 2025-12-13 · #8
STAT reports that the Trump order blocking state AI laws could slow health AI adoption and leave patients vulnerable.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-13
STAT health AI adoption patients
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
Bloomberg · 2025-12-13 · #8
President Trump signs an executive order intended to preempt state-level AI laws and establish a single federal standard for AI regulation.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-13
President Trump state AI laws states
David Sacks claims China is rejecting Nvidia's H200 AI chips.
rumored 1 article 2025-12-13
China Nvidia H200 AI chips
David Sacks says China is rejecting Nvidia's H200 AI chips, because the country wants “semiconductor independence” and to “prop up and subsidize Huawei”
Bloomberg · 2025-12-13 · #30
David Sacks asserts China wants semiconductor independence and intends to prop up and subsidize Huawei.
rumored 1 article 2025-12-13
China semiconductor independence subsidize Huawei
David Sacks says China is rejecting Nvidia's H200 AI chips, because the country wants “semiconductor independence” and to “prop up and subsidize Huawei”
Bloomberg · 2025-12-13 · #30
The executive order directs U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to create an \"AI Litigation Task Force\" that will coordinate (including meetings with David Sacks) to challenge inconsistent state AI laws.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-13
President Trump U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi AI Litigation Task Force David Sacks state AI laws
Sen. Tim Scott, GOP Senatorial Committee Chair, sent a letter to the Trump administration saying Netflix's proposed takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery raises significant antitrust problems, joining mounting opposition in Washington.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-13
Tim Scott Netflix Warner Bros. Discovery
In a letter to the Trump administration, the GOP Senatorial Committee Chair Sen. Tim Scott said the Netflix-WBD deal raises “significant antitrust problems”
Semafor · 2025-12-13 · #13
Sources report New York Governor Kathy Hochul is proposing to rewrite the RAISE Act, the AI transparency and safety bill.
rumored 1 article 2025-12-12
Kathy Hochul RAISE Act
Sources: New York's governor proposes rewriting the RAISE Act, the AI bill that passed NY legislature in June, with text copied verbatim from California's SB 53
Transformer · 2025-12-12 · #23
US sanctions targeted two overseas units of ACM Research.
rumored 1 article 2025-12-12
United States ACM Research (two overseas units)
Sources: Intel has tested chipmaking tools in 2025 from California-based ACM Research, which has deep China ties; US sanctions targeted two ACM overseas units
Reuters · 2025-12-12 · #15
New York's governor signs a bill requiring advertisements to disclose when performers are AI-generated.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-12
New York governor advertisements AI-generated performers
New York's governor signs bills requiring ads to disclose AI-generated performers and mandating heirs' consent to use a deceased person's likeness commercially
Deadline · 2025-12-12 · #24
In an executive order, President Trump directs U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to create an AI Litigation Task Force.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-12
Donald Trump Pam Bondi AI Litigation Task Force
In his EO, Trump orders US AG Pam Bondi to create an “AI Litigation Task Force” that meets regularly with David Sacks to challenge “inconsistent” state AI laws
Engadget · 2025-12-12 · #2
President Donald Trump signs an executive order on artificial intelligence intended to preempt state AI laws and establish a single central source of approval.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-12
Donald Trump artificial intelligence state AI laws
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”
Reuters · 2025-12-12 · #1
Companies are updating their insider trading policies to cover trading on prediction markets.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-12
Companies prediction markets
Companies are updating insider trading policies to cover prediction markets; Kalshi and others are pushing for federal oversight, including of insider trading
The Information · 2025-12-12 · #5
Switzerland's competition authority opens a preliminary antitrust investigation into Apple's terms for allowing third-party access to NFC technology on iPhones.
confirmed 1 article 2025-12-12
Switzerland's competition authority Apple terms for granting third-party access to NFC tech on iPhones
Switzerland launches a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access to NFC tech on iPhones violate its antitrust laws
MacRumors · 2025-12-12 · #12