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Washington Put $6 Million Behind Child-Welfare Prediction. The Same Day, a Journal Accepted the Study It Cites — With Smaller Numbers.
The federal footnote points at a draft on a personal web page. The peer-reviewed version says 65 percent, not 83 — and only in one score bin. Here's the…
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A Judge Ruled the Pentagon's Punishment of Anthropic Illegal on August 27. The Deadline to Strip Its Software Out Is Still September 29.
Winning did not stop it. The government reached for two statutes, so the company had to sue in two courts — and the purge is running on the one no court…
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Four States Wanted to Stop Software From Deciding What You Are Worth. The Law That Passed Protects Your Groceries.
Not one of the four got a floor vote. Colorado's passed both chambers and was vetoed in June. The law that did pass governs what you are charged, not…
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The Bill Does Not Ban AI Translation at Federal Agencies. It Bans Replacing the Human.
One trade headline said ban. The text says agencies may not fully replace a human — and must publish their AI's error rates every year. That second half…
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Your Child's School Flags Their Searches. In July the Government Deleted the Rule That Could Have Made Someone Answer for It.
Monitoring software watches school accounts around the clock. On July 24 the standard that let a lopsided outcome count as a violation was deleted …
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The Senate Bill to Ban Superintelligence Is One Page Long. The Clause That Would Bind Everyone Is the Undefined One.
Sanders and Casar would outlaw superintelligent AI — and pause "advanced AI development" until an agency that does not exist writes rules nobody has…
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California Makes Police Disclose When AI Wrote the Report. England and Wales Have No Law That Says They Ever Must.
Since January 1, a California police report drafted by AI must say so on every page, and the first draft must be kept. Here's what it buys you.
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New York Became the First State to Pause the Data Centers. The Order Stops One Kind of Permit — and Hands Your Town a Number to Argue Over
The pause is narrower than the headlines and ends when a study does. What outlasts it is a state framework, due mid-September, that towns may use to…
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The Labels Licensed the Recordings to the AI Companies. Now the Musicians Who Played on Them Are Suing Over a Clause Bargained in 1999.
Two of the largest music companies say the "new use" clause points nowhere. Briefing closes September 11 — and the answer decides who ever learns what…
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The Bill Says Your Boss Must Warn You Before the Algorithm Manages You. The Clause That Decides Whether It Is Real Is About Arbitration.
Two senators want employers to warn workers and bargain before an automated system starts managing them. Whether anyone could ever enforce that turns on…
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California Made AI Label Itself on August 2. The Mandatory Label Is Invisible, and It Starts at a Million Users.
The visible label is a user option. The mandatory one is metadata — so I ran the check on my own published images to see whether it survives the trip to…
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Seven English Schools Put a Chatbot Against a Notepad. The Students Who Learned the Least Liked It the Most.
A randomized trial of 405 teenagers: note-taking beat the chatbot on retention and comprehension, and 42 percent of those who tried both still preferred…
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