… He’s had to balance the company’s massive business interest in China with US policymakers’ concerns, and he’s worked to appease Trump for favorable regulatory decisions, without alienating too many Apple employees and customers in the process. …
… It is simply naïve to think that your company can operate under such circumstances without an extreme degree of regulatory caution. …
… It resulted in a week of total confusion for backers of either policy: AI preemption and child safety might be lumped together in order to ensure preemption gets signed into law, but whose version of child safety gets passed is unclear. …
… China will also miss out on Siri AI, again due to regulatory challenges. …
… Legion Intelligence’s Van Roo called it “uncharted territory” in the regulatory setting, adding that he doesn’t think this is the last time something like this will happen. …
… Ironically, the administration’s order comes after months of pushing to dismantle AI safeguards and regulation — it’s one of the first sweeping regulatory decisions President Trump has made. …
… When Leading the Future was launched last year, it was fairly typical for a super PAC, in that it was backed by several wealthy individuals and companies with shared policy goals, operating on both the state and federal election level. …
… On the one hand, the Trump administration is anti-AI regulatory efforts. …
… After several years of grappling with AI-generated images, videos, and audio, most major platforms now have some kind of policy covering synthetic media. …
… We have to be like, “I deputize you to be a state attorney general to escape the contract that you signed,” and now the state will get a cut of your private litigation and we’ve just created a whole other set of weird policy problems instead of just solving the policy problem. …