However, Trump seems to think that longtime TikTok partner Oracle taking a bigger stake while handling Americans' user data at its facilities in Texas will be enough to prevent remaining China-based owners—which will maintain less ....

Earlier this month, Ars spoke with the Consumer Technology Association's vice president of international trade, Ed Brzytwa, to check in and see how tech firms have navigated Donald Trump's unpredictable tariff regimes so far. Brzytwa ....

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project, an effort to preserve early music recordings that only exist on brittle shellac records. No ....

According to Bessent, China agreed to "commercial terms" and "technical details" of a deal "between two parties," but Xi and Trump still needed to discuss the terms—as well as possibly China's demands to ease export ....

Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think there may finally be a solution to end AI crawlers hammering websites to scrape content without permission or compensation. Announced ....

"Spotify honors our users’ privacy rights, including the right of portability," Spotify's spokesperson said. "All of our users can receive a copy of their personal data to use as they see fit. That said, UnwrappedData.org ....

Microsoft has avoided an EU fine after the US tech group offered concessions on how it packages together its Teams and Office products, ending a long-running antitrust investigation by the bloc’s regulators. The probe, which ....

The bill also drew opposition from the Real Estate Technology & Transformation Center (RETTC). The group's sponsors include real estate companies and Internet providers AT&T, Comcast, and Cox. Another notable sponsor of RETTC is RealPage, ....

Failure to complete the revision process would leave the EPA vulnerable to claims that it's relying on an incomplete draft report for its scientific justifications. So, while the DOE's tactics may protect some of its ....

Hale, a 38-year-old with prior felony convictions for armed robbery, risked a potential sentence of 15 years for these crimes, but he reduced his sentence to a maximum of five years through his plea deal. ....

In the one-pager, Cruz noted that "most US rules and regulations do not squarely apply to emerging technologies like AI." So "rather than force AI developers to design inferior products just to comply with outdated ....

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has a simple request for the Trump administration: Don't take our broadband money away. Trump's Commerce Department rewrote the rules of the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grant ....

Instead of providing notice to customers and obtaining or verifying customer consent itself, Verizon "largely delegated those functions via contract," the court said. This system and its shortcomings were revealed in 2018 when "the New ....

Some Republicans are still angry over the deplatforming of Trump by tech executives once known for their progressive politics. They had been joined by a “vocal and growing group of conservatives who are fundamentally suspicious ....

"For almost a decade, the Defendant led the scheme to systematically coerce and defraud women into engaging in filmed sexual activity for profit," the sentencing recommendation said. "A sentence of 260 months is warranted, given ....

1935 Supreme Court is key precedent The key precedent in the case is Humphrey's Executor v. United States, a 1935 ruling in which the Supreme Court unanimously held that the president can only remove FTC ....

SpaceX's complaints to the Federal Communications Commission have helped the satellite company land a $17 billion deal to buy spectrum licenses from EchoStar. The deal consists of up to $8.5 billion in cash and up ....

Midjourney could slow down the cycle and "minimize" these allegedly infringing outputs, if it cannot automatically block them all, WB suggested. But instead, "Midjourney has made a calculated and profit-driven decision to offer zero protection ....

Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models. In a press release provided to Ars, the ....

Burroughs' footnote said that district courts try to follow Supreme Court rulings, but "the Supreme Court's recent emergency docket rulings regarding grant terminations have not been models of clarity, and have left many issues unresolved." ....

A Democrat who was fired from the Federal Trade Commission by President Trump was reinstated to her position yesterday in an appeals court ruling. Trump's firing of Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter violated Supreme Court precedent, ....

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr is teaming up with Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to block funding for Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolchildren. Cruz convinced the Senate to kill the FCC's hotspot program in May. While ....

And perhaps the biggest confounding factor for businesses attempting to align supply chain choices with predictable tariff costs is looming chip tariffs. Trump has suggested those could come in August, but nearing the end of ....

Rule-cutting and mergers on cable agenda As the NCTA's new head, Gardner will be representing the interests of Comcast, Charter, and other cable companies. He can be expected to continue the group's long-term fight against ....

The Federal Communications Commission's Republican chairman is eliminating regulations at breakneck speed by using a process that cuts dozens of rules at a time while giving the public only 10 or 20 days to review ....

Fresh off his thorough victory over CBS News, President Trump is taking aim at ABC and NBC. "Why is it that ABC and NBC FAKE NEWS, two of the absolute worst and most biased networks ....

And perhaps the biggest confounding factor for businesses attempting to align supply chain choices with predictable tariff costs is looming chip tariffs. Trump has suggested those could come in August, but nearing the end of ....

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Since 2022, Republican lawmakers in Congress and state attorneys ....

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson accused Google of using "partisan" spam filtering in Gmail that sends Republican fundraising emails to the spam folder while delivering Democratic emails to inboxes. Ferguson sent a letter yesterday ....

The FCC's threat drew widespread backlash from across the political spectrum. The conservative Free State Foundation told the FCC that the move would create "regulatory uncertainty" for carriers, while consumer advocacy groups warned it would ....

During those chats, "ChatGPT mentioned suicide 1,275 times—six times more often than Adam himself," the lawsuit noted. Ultimately, OpenAI's system flagged "377 messages for self-harm content, with 181 scoring over 50 percent confidence and 23 ....

However, the US can vote "as it wishes," Intel reported, and experts suggested to Reuters that regulations may be needed to "limit government opportunities for abuses such as insider trading." That could reassure investors somewhat, ....

We contacted the FCC and will update this article if it provides a response. The plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction said the FCC, led by Chairman Brendan Carr, "acted favorably on several Starlink initiatives" ....

"Commissioner [Frank] Bisignano and the Social Security Administration take all whistleblower complaints seriously," the agency said. "SSA stores all personal data in secure environments that have robust safeguards in place to protect vital information. The ....

Authors are celebrating a "historic" settlement expected to be reached soon in a class-action lawsuit over Anthropic's AI training data. On Tuesday, US District Judge William Alsup confirmed that Anthropic and the authors "believe they ....

"There is no telling how long this exclusive arrangement will last," X said, warning the court that OpenAI's rivals "suffer harm every moment they are illegally denied access to these prompts." X suggests that Apple ....

US Senator Ron Wyden accused the federal judiciary of “negligence and incompetence” following a recent hack, reportedly by hackers with ties to the Russian government, that exposed confidential court documents. The breach of the judiciary’s ....

As banks around the world prepare to replace many thousands of workers with AI, Australia's biggest bank is scrambling to rehire 45 workers after allegedly lying about chatbots besting staff by handling higher call volumes. ....

After a judge warned that the Federal Trade Commission's probe into Media Matters for America (MMFA) should alarm "all Americans"—viewing it as a likely government retaliation intended to silence critical reporting from a political foe—the ....

4chan's law firms, Byrne & Storm and Coleman Law, said in a statement on August 15 that "4chan is a United States company, incorporated in Delaware, with no establishment, assets, or operations in the United ....

"The defendant breached his employer’s trust by using his access and technical knowledge to sabotage company networks, wreaking havoc and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses for a U.S. company," Galeotti said. Developer ....

Intel has agreed to sell the US a 10 percent stake in the company, Donald Trump announced at a news conference Friday. The US stake is worth $10 billion, Trump said, confirming that the deal ....

The dissents The primary dissent was written by Chief Justice Roberts, and joined in part by the three Democratic appointees, Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor. It is a grand total of one paragraph, and can be ....

Since reducing costs was one of the Trump administration's stated goals, and states are complying with that mandate, they have a fighting chance to get their updated plans approved even if they face challenges from ....

Court ruled broadband isn’t telecommunications Although the Obama-era FCC won on this point in the District of Columbia Circuit in 2016, a Supreme Court ruling in 2024 gave courts more power to block rules when ....

Trump plan salvages CHIPS Act he vowed to kill While chipmakers wait for more clarity, Lutnick has suggested that Trump—who campaigned on killing the CHIPS Act—has found a way to salvage the legislation that Joe ....

The UK has dropped its demand that Apple create a backdoor for government security officials to access encrypted data, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard wrote in a post on X ....

Starlink operator SpaceX is continuing its fight against state plans to expand fiber broadband availability. After saying the Trump administration should deny a Virginia proposal, SpaceX is taking the same approach in a fight against ....

"Perhaps the Defendants will establish otherwise later in these proceedings," Sooknanan wrote. "But at this stage, the record certainly supports that inference," that the FTC was politically motivated to back Musk's fight. As the FTC ....

Carriers claimed selling data didn’t violate law Instead of denying the allegations, the carriers argued that the FCC overstepped its authority. But the appeals court panel decided that the FCC acted properly: Sprint and T-Mobile ....

These sought-after regions are scientifically vital and geopolitically sensitive, as multiple countries want to build bases or conduct research there. Building infrastructure in these areas would cement a country’s ability to access the resources there ....

A former adviser to Joe Biden's Commerce Department, Alasdair Phillips-Robins, told Reuters that the levy suggests the Trump administration "is trading away national security protections for revenue for the Treasury." Huawei close to unveiling new ....

Musk claimed the request was to "ensure OpenAI was not being taken advantage of or corrupted by Microsoft," but two weeks later, he appeared on national TV, insinuating that OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft was "improper," ....

After what was arguably Meta's biggest purge of child predators from Facebook and Instagram earlier this summer, the company now faces backlash after its own chatbots appeared to be allowed to creep on kids. After ....

Why Intel may be into Trump’s deal At one point, Intel was the undisputed leader in chip manufacturing, Bloomberg noted, but its value plummeted from $288 billion in 2020 to $104 billion today. The chipmaker ....

We contacted the White House today and will update the story if it provides any comment. Ending “weaponization” Public Citizen wrote that "President Donald Trump spent much of his 2024 presidential campaign claiming his prosecution ....

Noting that its "project areas span from mountains and hills to farmland and coastal plains," the DHCD said its previous experience with grant-funded deployments "revealed that tree canopy, rugged terrain, and slope can complicate installation ....

xAI apparently lost a government contract after a tweak to Grok's prompting triggered an antisemitic meltdown where the chatbot praised Hitler and declared itself MechaHitler last month. Despite the scandal, xAI announced that its products ....

Wikipedia's parent organization lost a challenge to the UK Online Safety Act but can bring another case if the government tries to force it to verify the identity of Wikipedia users. The High Court of ....

Beijing is demanding tech companies including Alibaba and ByteDance justify their orders of Nvidia’s H20 artificial intelligence chips, complicating the US chipmaker’s business in China after striking an export arrangement with the Trump administration. The ....

As more recent evidence of allegedly bad-faith conduct, OpenAI noted that Musk signed a letter calling for a moratorium on all AI development in 2023. That six-month pause on all AI development may have bought ....

Among concerned users fighting to block AI age checks is the petition starter, an anonymous YouTuber who runs a monetized account exploring video game lore called "Gerfdas Gaming" (who, for simplicity's sake, we'll refer to ....

"Until they’re able to defend their site and comply with platform policies (e.g., respecting user privacy, re: deleting removed content) we’re limiting some of their access to Reddit data to protect redditors," Rathschmidt said. A ....

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. The order requires that any announcement of funding opportunities be reviewed by the head of ....

OpenAI announced an agreement to supply more than 2 million workers for the US federal executive branch access to ChatGPT and related tools at practically no cost: just $1 per agency for one year. The ....

Some of Storm's instant messages that his defense team wanted to use at trial. But Storm fought back. In a trial in Manhattan over the last few weeks, his defense team has introduced text messages ....

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency made lots of headlines by rejecting the document that establishes its ability to regulate the greenhouse gases that are warming our climate. While the legal assault on regulations grabbed ....

The Trump administration is telling states they will be shut out of a $42 billion broadband deployment fund if they set the rates that Internet service providers receiving subsidies are allowed to charge people with ....

It derives from a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that named greenhouse gases as “air pollutants,” giving the EPA the mandate to regulate them under the Clean Air Act. Critics of the rule say that the ....

The Tesla board approved the interim award yesterday, with recusals from Musk and his brother, Kimbal. The Tesla board is still working on "a longer-term CEO compensation strategy, which we plan to put to a ....

The CAC did not specify which experts had found a back door in Nvidia’s products or whether any tests in China had uncovered the same results. Nvidia did not immediately respond to a request for ....

But even Amazon may struggle to shift its supply chain as the de minimis exemption is eliminated for all countries. In February, the e-commerce giant "projected lower-than-expected sales and operating income for its first quarter," ....

Survivors, or their representatives, must submit claims by February 2, 2026. To receive compensation, claims must include at least one document showing they "suffered monetary and/or behavioral health losses," the claims form specified. Documents can ....

Faced with mounting backlash, OpenAI removed a controversial ChatGPT feature that caused some users to unintentionally allow their private—and highly personal—chats to appear in search results. Fast Company exposed the privacy issue on Wednesday, reporting ....

Delta scandal highlights value of transparency According to Delta, the company has "zero tolerance for discriminatory or predatory pricing" and only feeds its AI system aggregated data "to enhance our existing fare pricing processes." Rather ....

Despite the protests of millions of Americans, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced it will be winding down its operations after the White House deemed NPR and PBS a "grift" and pushed for a ....

Picking up where the FTC left off, lawmakers announced the Click to Cancel Act, which requires companies to "provide a simple, direct mechanism to cancel a subscription and immediately stop charges." It also requires companies ....

Privacy experts are demanding transparency after YouTube announced it would test using AI to estimate user ages in the US ahead of a wider rollout of the age check system. Throughout the first half of ....

Also on Friday, the Windscribe VPN service posted a screenshot on X claiming to show a spike in new subscribers. The makers of the AdGuard VPN claimed that they have seen a 2.5X increase in ....

Moxon has switched to Ghost for his independent blog, The Reframe, an open source Substack alternative that woos users by migrating accounts for users and ditching Substack's fees, which take a 10 percent cut of ....

We asked the White House and European Commission for more details today and will update this article with any new information. If the White House fact sheet's reference to network usage fees has at least ....

Wyoming’s data center boom Cheyenne is no stranger to data centers, having attracted facilities from Microsoft and Meta since 2012 due to its cool climate and energy access. However, the new project pushes the state ....

The Federal Communications Commission's approval of CBS owner Paramount's $8 billion merger with Skydance came with a condition to install an ombudsman, which FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has described as a "bias monitor." It appears ....

But experts seem to fear that Trump isn't paying enough attention to how exports of US technology could threaten to not only supercharge China's military and AI capabilities but also drain supplies that US firms ....

And while at least one analyst has suggested that the US and China may extend a 90-day truce ahead of an August deadline, perhaps the biggest confounding factor for businesses attempting to align supply chain ....

Boerner said her goal with the bill "was always a basic broadband service" that would be affordable. "There are lots of packages out there in the world that people choose to get because they're being ....

“The targeted and proportionate actions we have set out today would enable UK app developers to remain at the forefront of global innovation while ensuring UK consumers receive a world-class experience,” Cardell said. “Time is ....

Trump’s plan was not welcomed by everyone. J.B. Branch, Big Tech accountability advocate for Public Citizen, in a statement provided to Ars, criticized Trump as giving “sweetheart deals” to tech companies that would cause “electricity ....

Warning that the "Paramount payout" and "reckless" acquisition approval together mark a "dark chapter" for US press freedom, Gomez suggested the FCC's approval will embolden "those who believe the government can—and should—abuse its power to ....

"There is no fare product Delta has ever used, is testing or plans to use that targets customers with individualized offers based on personal information or otherwise," Delta said. "A variety of market forces drive ....

Earlier this summer, Grok shocked the world after Musk announced he would be updating the bot to eliminate a supposed liberal bias. The unhinged chatbot began spouting offensive outputs, including antisemitic posts that praised Hitler ....

Donald Trump vowed to save TikTok before taking office, claiming only he could make a deal to keep the app operational in the US despite national security concerns. But then, he put Vice President JD ....

Nearly 150 employees of the National Science Foundation (NSF) sent an urgent letter of dissent to Congress on Tuesday, warning that the Trump administration's recent "politically motivated and legally questionable" actions threaten to dismantle the ....

Nearly 150 employees of the National Science Foundation (NSF) sent an urgent letter of dissent to Congress on Tuesday, warning that the Trump administration's recent "politically motivated and legally questionable" actions threaten to dismantle the ....

Yesterday, Ukrainian authorities arrested the suspected administrator of a notorious Russian-language crime forum, XSS.is. In an X post, the Paris Prosecutor's Office announced that Ukrainian authorities detained the suspect after an investigation conducted with French ....

In May 2020, Sacramento, California, resident Alfonso Nguyen was alarmed to find two Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies at his door, accusing him of illegally growing cannabis and demanding entry into his home. When Nguyen refused ....

A popular account on TikTok and Instagram stopped posting suddenly at the end of last year, hit by a lawsuit after garnering millions of views on funny videos using adorable Calico Critter dolls made for ....

X claimed that David Chavalarias, "who spearheads the 'Escape X' campaign"—which is "dedicated to encouraging X users to leave the platform"—was chosen to assess the data with one of his prior research collaborators, Maziyar Panahi. ....

"As part of our return to following the plain language of section 706, we propose to abolish without replacement the long-term goal of 1,000/500Mbps established in the 2024 Report," Carr's plan said. "Not only is ....

Now, Herman is paying $80 a month to his own company for symmetrical gigabit service. Prime-One also offers 500Mbps for $75, 2Gbps for $95, and 5Gbps for $110. The first 30 days are free, and ....

It's "Crypto Week" in Congress, and experts continue to warn that legislation Donald Trump wants passed quickly could give the president ample opportunities to grift while leaving Americans more vulnerable to scams and financial ruin. ....

While Trump and Musk have fallen out this year after developing a political alliance on the 2024 election, the US president has directly attacked EU penalties on US companies calling them a “form of taxation” ....

Although Delta's AI pricing could increase competition in the airline industry, Slover expects that companies using such pricing schemes are "all too likely" to be incentivized "to skew in the direction of higher prices" because ....

Some Democrats supported the GENIUS Act, arguing that some regulation is better than none as cryptocurrency activity increases globally and the technology has the potential to revolutionize the US financial system. But Hand told Ars ....

"Without removal protections, that independence would be jeopardized... Accordingly, the Court held that the FTC Act's for-cause removal protections were constitutional," wrote AliKhan, who was appointed to the District Court by President Biden in 2023. ....

CPB expenses in fiscal year 2025 are $545 million, of which 66.9 percent goes to TV programming. Another 22.3 percent goes to radio programming, while the rest is for administration and support. The CPB distributes ....

A former cop in the United Kingdom was sentenced to five and a half years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to covering up his theft of 50 bitcoins seized during an investigation into the ....

When contacted by Ars today, the CPB did not offer any comment on the Trump administration's lawsuit but referred us to its June 8 statement on Moss's ruling. "We are very pleased that the Court ....

In an SELC press release, LaTricea Adams, CEO and President of Young, Gifted and Green, called the SCHD's decisions on xAI's permit "reckless." "As a Black woman born and raised in Memphis, I know firsthand ....

Chinese firms have begun rushing to order Nvidia's H20 AI chips as the company plans to resume sales to mainland China, Reuters reports. The chip giant expects to receive US government licenses soon so that ....

Grok checked Musk’s posts, called itself “MechaHitler” xAI has been checking Elon Musk's posts before providing answers on some topics, such as the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. xAI acknowledged this in an update today that addressed two ....

The language Abbott’s office used appears to be fairly boilerplate. Paxton’s office, in an explanation of the common-law privacy exception on its website, mentions that “personal financial information” that doesn’t deal with government transactions “is ....

"Society has long protected youngsters from products that aren't suitable for them, from alcohol to smoking or gambling," Ofcom said. "Now, children will be better protected from online material that's not appropriate for them, while ....

Where trucks congregate There’s also a policy tool called indirect source rules, or ISR. The rules are called “indirect” because they don’t regulate the vehicles themselves, but the facilities that attract emissions-heavy traffic, like large ....

Lawyers representing MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell were fined $6,000 after using artificial intelligence in a brief that was riddled with misquotes and citations to fictional cases. Attorney Christopher Kachouroff and the law firm ....

And "the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter" with xAI, Yaccarino said. Grok cites “growing tensions” between Musk and CEO It's unclear how Yaccarino's departure could influence X advertisers who ....

The code also details expectations for AI companies to respect paywalls, as well as robots.txt instructions restricting crawling, which could help confront a growing problem of AI crawlers hammering websites. It "encourages" online search giants ....

DOJ approval “reads like a complaint” The DOJ's unusual statement about the wireless industry oligopoly shows that the Justice Department staff and antitrust chief "clearly did not want to approve this," stated Harold Feld, senior ....

Update: Shortly after this article was published, the Department of Justice announced that it has closed its investigation into the T-Mobile/US Cellular deal and will not try to stop the merger. The FCC had not ....

The AI tool could also possibly be "overstepping in its interpretation of the audio," possibly misinterpreting slang or adding context that never happened. A "major concern," the EFF said, is that the AI reports can ....

Ars could not immediately find any legislation that seemed to match Prince's description, and Cloudflare did not respond to Ars' request to comment. Passing tech laws is notoriously hard, though, partly because technology keeps advancing ....

With Verizon seeking permission to lock phones to its network for six months or longer instead of the current 60 days, a coalition of advocacy groups yesterday urged the Federal Communications Commission to reject the ....

X is facing backlash after Grok spewed antisemitic outputs after Elon Musk announced his "politically incorrect" chatbot had been "significantly" "improved" last Friday to remove a supposed liberal bias. Following Musk's announcement, X users began ....

FTC arguments rejected Summarizing the FTC's arguments, judges said the agency contended that US law "did not require the Commission to conduct the preliminary regulatory analysis later in the rulemaking process," and that "any alleged ....

"Even if Beijing would choose to overlook the recent tariff hikes and ratcheting up of US export controls on chip technologies, they still wouldn’t grant export licenses for the algorithms," Capri said. US version of ....

The 1,200 MHz between 5.925 and 7.125 GHz was allocated to Wi-Fi in April 2020 under then-FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. The Pai-led FCC rejected the mobile industry's requests to use the band for cellular networks, ....

In a sudden reversal, Canada has caved and will remove its digital services tax after trade talks with the US suddenly fell apart this weekend. Blocked just hours before taking effect, the controversial digital services ....

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could determine whether Internet service providers must terminate users who are accused of copyright infringement. In a list of orders released today, the court granted ....

Section 230 has so far failed to shield Meta and TikTok owner ByteDance from a lawsuit raised by a mother who alleged that her son's wrongful death followed a flood of "subway surfing" videos platforms ....

An early evaluation shows the administration’s planned energy policies would result in the drilling of 50,000 new oil wells every year for the next few years, he said, adding that it “ensures the continuation of ....

Cruz blamed “outside interests” After the compromise fell apart, the Senate voted 99-1 for Blackburn's amendment to remove the AI provision from the budget bill. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) cast the only vote against the ....

Payout to future presidential library Paramount told us that the settlement terms were proposed by a mediator and that it will pay $16 million, including plaintiffs' fees and costs. That amount, minus the fees and ....

Before xAI got the permit, residents were stuck relying on infrequent thermal imaging to determine how many turbines appeared to be running without BACT. Now that xAI has secured the permit, the company will be ....

Separately, Trump v. Casa blocked the use of a national injunction against illegal activity. So, while the government's actions have been determined to be illegal, Young can only protect the people who were parties to ....

News orgs will soon start searching ChatGPT logs The clock is ticking, and so far, OpenAI has not provided any official updates since a June 5 blog post detailing which ChatGPT users will be affected. ....

If AI note writers "generate initial drafts that represent a wider range of perspectives than a single human writer typically could, the quality of community deliberation is improved from the start," the paper said. Future ....

As Clothoff's growth appears unstoppable, the user explained to Der Spiegel why he doesn’t feel that conflicted about using the app to generate fake nudes of a famous singer. "There are enough pictures of her ....

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has decided to let prisons and jails keep charging high prices for calling services until at least 2027, delaying implementation of rate caps approved last year when the FCC ....

AI companies must buy in For Cloudflare's plan to work, AI companies must sign up, too. However, while some AI companies may not see the incentive, Cloudflare has confirmed that it has partnered with AI ....

Michael Calabrese of New America's Open Technology Institute told Ars that 6 GHz and CBRS "are the most vulnerable non-federal bands for reallocation and auction." While the spectrum for auctions is to come from frequencies between ....

The proposed consent order, which is subject to a 30-day public comment period, would resolve an administrative complaint filed by the FTC against Omnicom and Interpublic. The FTC complaint alleges that the merger would violate ....

But if you're not intimately familiar with the AI industry and copyright, you might wonder: Why would a company spend millions of dollars on books to destroy them? Behind these odd legal maneuvers lies a ....

With Comcast trying to figure out how to stop losing broadband customers, the cable firm yesterday announced new plans that are available nationwide and do not have data caps. Comcast said it is offering "four ....

In the meantime, the Copyright Office is in the odd position of attempting to carry on as though it wasn’t missing its head. Immediately after Perlmutter’s dismissal, the Copyright Office paused issuing registration certificates “out ....

Justice Elena Kagan filed a dissenting opinion that was joined by Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Kagan said that in similar cases, the court applied strict scrutiny, "a highly rigorous but not fatal form ....

Finally, the Consumers' Research position produces absurd results, divorced from any reasonable understanding of constitutional values. Under its view, a revenue-raising statute containing non-numeric, qualitative standards can never pass muster, no matter how tight the ....

An interesting wrinkle that may have stopped authors from invoking market dilution as a threat in the Meta case is that Chhabria noted that Meta had argued that "market dilution does not count under the ....

It could certainly look worse for Meta if authors manage to present evidence supporting the second way that torrenting could be relevant to the case, Chhabaria suggested. "Meta downloading copyrighted material from shadow libraries" would ....

The Trump phone was announced last week with a claim that the device would be made entirely in America, and people were rightly skeptical. Trump Mobile's $500 T1 Phone "is a sleek, gold smartphone engineered ....

Whether Trump's appointees can manage DOGE without Musk's help or his appointees remains to be seen, as DOGE continues to seek new hires. While Musk's appointed DOGE staff was heavily criticized from day one, Kamarck ....

The lawsuit alleged that Media Matters' free speech rights are being violated "as state governments and now a federal agency have employed sweeping governmental powers to attempt to silence and harass an organization for daring ....

"This order doubts that any accused infringer could ever meet its burden of explaining why downloading source copies from pirate sites that it could have purchased or otherwise accessed lawfully was itself reasonably necessary to ....

Hunt's fears are not unfounded, Corynne McSherry, legal director for the digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Ars. "The discovery order poses genuine risks to user privacy in itself and as a precedent ....

Blackburn said she agreed with Cantwell that the AI regulation proposal "is not the type of thing that we put into reconciliation bills." Blackburn added that lawmakers "are working to move forward with legislation at ....

“Where’s the support for that?” Young asked. “I see no evidence of that.” Meanwhile, a lawyer representing one of the plaintiffs suing to block the grants, Kenneth Parreno, seemingly successfully argued that canceling grants related ....

But the new mobile empire could collapse at any moment. Trump Mobile's website repeatedly warns customers that its use of the Trump trademark can "be terminated or revoked," while noting that "Trump Mobile, its products ....

Although that statement may provide comfort to those who have kept their WhatsApp numbers off the Internet, it doesn't resolve the issue of WhatsApp's AI helper potentially randomly generating a real person's private number that ....

"It is our sincere belief that the current social media landscape makes it far too easy for bad actors to promote false claims, hatred and dangerous conspiracies online, and some large social media companies are ....

For many Americans, losing TikTok would be disruptive. TikTok has warned that US businesses could lose $1 billion in one month if TikTok shuts down. As these businesses wait in limbo for a resolution to ....

"Why—beyond the obvious benefit of gaining favor, directly or indirectly, with the Trump administration—did you select USD1, a newly launched, untested cryptocurrency with no track record?" the senators asked. Responding, World Liberty Financial's lawyers claimed ....

"For instance, if all the 35 turbines operated by xAI were using" add-on air pollution control technology "to achieve a NOx emission rate of 2 ppm"—as xAI's consultant agreed it would—"they would emit about 177 ....

The departments of Commerce, Treasury, Homeland Security and the National Institutes of Health were all compromised. A large roster of private companies—among them Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Deloitte, FireEye, and CrowdStrike—were also breached. In response, a ....

Most obviously, AI models are still prone to hallucination, Kaur noted. And while Mattel's AI toys are "unlikely to cause physical harm," toys giving "inappropriate or bizarre responses" could "be confusing or even unsettling for ....

Last Friday, a Michigan man named David Bartels was sentenced to five years in federal prison for "Possession of Child Pornography by a Person Employed by the Armed Forces Outside of the United States." The ....

Critics warn that the United States may soon be taking on more nuclear safety risks after Donald Trump fired one of five members of an independent commission that monitors the country's nuclear reactors. In a ....

The new report concludes that not only will the expansion of ethanol increase greenhouse gas emissions, but it has also failed to provide the social and financial benefits to Midwestern communities that lawmakers and the ....

"This could also invoke issues with contract, property and intellectual property rights, and right of publicity as well if AI replicas (image, voice, text, etc.) are being used without authorization," Sheehan said. And there are ....

FTC chair alleged “serious risk” from ad boycotts After Musk's purchase of Twitter, the social network lost advertisers for various reasons, including changes to content moderation and an incident in which Musk posted a favorable ....

Both countries agreed in Geneva last month to slash their respective tariffs by 115 percentage points and provided a 90-day window to resolve the trade war. But the ceasefire came under pressure after Washington accused ....

Butcher said Lutnick is exercising "authority as a central government over the rights and expertise of a state body, which I guess I don't understand how the party's values work anymore, but that to me ....

Elon Musk's strategy of suing or threatening to sue companies that don't buy advertising on X has reportedly paid off in at least a few cases. A Wall Street Journal report yesterday said that Verizon ....

The legal action follows similar moves in other creative industries, with more than a dozen major news companies suing AI company Cohere in February over copyright concerns. In 2023, a group of visual artists sued ....

"DoD is concerned about the high possibility that non-Federal users will not adhere to the established coordination conditions at all times; the impacts related to airborne systems, due to their range and speed; and required ....

Incompas, a communications industry trade group, said that revoking the deadline extension "would undermine regulatory certainty and threaten to disrupt ongoing investments in advanced network infrastructure, including EchoStar's important work to integrate Open RAN and ....

Backlash to the idea was quick, with the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus immediately calling it "unethical." "Allowing a dangerous virus that we don’t fully understand to run free is simply unethical. It’s ....

Jackson said the ruling "sends a troubling message" that the court will depart from its usual legal standards "for certain litigants." While other litigants seeking a stay "must point to more than the annoyance of ....

The administration says the plan will "drastically" speed up hiring while cutting costs. The plan said that efficiencies would be created by cutting down resumes to a maximum of two pages (cutting review time) while ....

When plaintiff Catherine Jackson received her termination notice, she "was surprised to see recent performance ratings that were flatly incorrect," the lawsuit said. Jackson worked in the Office of Child Care "supporting the state of ....

According to a post on his blog, this was done with the approval of Musk before he left DOGE. “When he asked the room about improving DOGE’s public perception, I asked if I could open-source ....

There were at least 100 heat-related deaths in the state from June 26 to July 2, 2021, according to the Washington State Department of Health. That unprecedented stretch of scorching high temperatures was the deadliest ....

BEAD changes: No fiber preference, no low-cost mandate The BEAD program is separately undergoing an overhaul because Republicans don't like how it was administered by Democrats. The Biden administration spent about three years developing rules ....

In the copyright fight, Magistrate Judge Ona Wang granted the order within one day of the NYT's request. She agreed with news plaintiffs that it seemed likely that ChatGPT users may be spooked by the ....

On Thursday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued against a proposed 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation in a New York Times opinion piece, calling the measure shortsighted and overbroad as Congress considers including it in ....

Notably, Reddit pointed out that Anthropic's Claude models will help power Amazon's revamped Alexa, following about $8 billion in Amazon investments in the AI company since 2023. "By commercially licensing Claude for use in several ....

Two commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission are resigning at the end of this week. For at least a little while, the FCC will have just two members: Chairman Brendan Carr, a Republican chosen by ....

"The court nevertheless required OpenAI to continue preserving API Conversation Data as well," OpenAI argued, in support of lifting the order on the API chat logs. Users who found out about the preservation order panicked, ....

A federal judge ruled today that Florida cannot enforce a law that requires social media platforms to block kids from using their platforms. The state law "is likely unconstitutional," US Judge Mark Walker of the ....

Lutnick's announcement of the BEAD overhaul also criticized what he called the program's "woke mandates" and "burdensome regulations." Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) have criticized a requirement for ISPs that accept subsidies to offer ....

The Trump administration weighed in on Cox's side, arguing that ISPs should not be held "liable for contributory copyright infringement for failing to terminate subscribers after receiving notices of infringement." The Trump admin's Department of ....

College students who have reportedly grown too dependent on ChatGPT are starting to face consequences after graduating and joining the workforce for placing too much trust in chatbots. Last month, a recent law school graduate ....

Johnson, who heads China Strategies Group, a risk consultancy, said that China had successfully leveraged its stranglehold on rare earths to bring the US to the negotiating table in Geneva, which “left the Trump administration’s ....

Last week, Musk posted that he was "back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms." Lawsuits against Musk, DOGE continue Musk and the Trump administration are facing numerous lawsuits over the authority ....

Musk, so used to getting his way at his businesses, struggled for control. At various points in his tenure he took on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Transport Secretary Sean Duffy, ....

Ars contacted Google to see if the glitch's cause has been uncovered. A spokesperson remained vague, only reiterating prior statements that Google "investigated a technical issue that temporarily showed inaccurate road closures on the map" ....