Under-16 social media ban announced by UK government
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Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government order
… In its statement, the company lays out the steps it took to safeguard Fable and Mythos, including working with the US and UK governments and changing its data retention policy to help track attempts to use them for malicious purposes. …
How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
… But to Washington, the shift in the White House’s policy was due to three major changes. …
Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understands
… Experts say the episode appears to be unprecedented, exposing an uncertain and unstable stage in AI governance. …
Age verification is a mess but we’re doing it anyway
… Putting device makers on the spot Increasingly, law- and policy-makers have settled on a seemingly elegant solution to age-gating: just make app stores do it. …
Use this map to find the data centers in your backyard
… So Reksopuro, a student at the University of Washington who studies the connections between tech and public policy, decided to map it out. Using information collected by Epoch AI and data scraped from legislation on data centers, she built an interactive map tracking AI policy around the world. …
Microsoft could be the next Big Tech antitrust target
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YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tool to all adult users
… Takedown requests are evaluated using YouTube’s privacy policy, and the company says it considers removals based on criteria like whether the content is realistic, is labeled as AI-generated, and if a person can be uniquely identified. …
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