But passing the House might be another story
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KOSA and COPPA 2.0 pass the Senate
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Welcome to the shitpost election
Forget what’s true and false. Did you hear about J.D. Vance and the couch?
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Sam Altman calls for an AI coalition
AI leaders are promoting the idea of an arms race — but the hype is getting ahead of the technology. PLUS: KOSA makes a comeback
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Meta unleashes its Llama
The company's open-source AI is now roughly on par with rivals from OpenAI and Google. Should we worry?
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How Kamala Harris sees the tech industry
Plus: Zuckerberg and Trump, is X "back," and other questions about the brand-new 2024 presidential campaign
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How the world is ceding AI to America
As regulations pile up in Europe, South America, and elsewhere, it’s still full speed ahead in the United States
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The e/accs inch closer to the White House
How billionaire donors, a new policy framework, and Trump’s VP pick promise to steamroll the AI safety movement
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An assassination attempt for the social media age
On a dark day for democracy, the rules of the 2020 internet no longer apply
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Adam Mosseri on the first year of Threads
With more than 175 million monthly users, Meta has its sights set on overtaking Twitter
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The Supreme Court gives a green light to jawboning
A decision this week should mean Russia won't easily be able to repeat its 2016 propaganda campaign — but First Amendment advocates still have concerns
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Snap tackles the teen sextortion problem
What will it take to stop an epidemic of suicides among teenage boys?
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The record labels come for AI
Another industry recognizes a bad bargain when it sees one
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How to stop Perplexity and save the web from bad AI
We can still have the internet we want — but we have to try new business models
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Election deepfakes make a shallow impact
The world braced for the worst — but so far, politicians are using generative AI in mostly conventional ways
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The surgeon general wants a warning for social media
A year after issuing an advisory, Vivek Murthy sharpens his rhetoric
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The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled
House Republicans attacked the lab’s reports on misinformation and election integrity — and now Stanford is pulling the plug
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Nine things to know about Apple Intelligence
Apple’s move into content moderation, unlimited ChatGPT, and more
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Apple’s AI moment arrives
What WWDC told us about the near-term future of computing
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The misinformation panic may be over
Three new studies suggest the problem is manageable — and smaller than you might expect. PLUS: What is Joan Donovan’s deal?