Stories tagged policy & regulation.
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central
From baseline AI literacy to early career exposure, Jobs for the Future president Maria Flynn shares how education systems can prepare young people for ...
DroneDJ / DroneLife / sUAS News / DroneXL
Ohio's HB 251 police drone law starts Oct. 6. Cleveland's Skydio X10 rules already ban facial recognition, protest surveillance and all weapons.
Fierce Biotech / Fierce Healthcare / MedCity / GEN
This structural problem calls for a structural solution, requiring no new science, regulation, or data. The post The Trials Were Always There — Patients Just Couldn’t Find Them appeared first on MedCity News.
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Pay-by-Bank Startup Trustly Lays Off 24% of Staff, Enova Abandons Bid for Grasshopper, Regulators Put FIS, Fiserv, Jack Henry On Notice
The Hindu — Technology / BusinessLine — Info-tech
The partnership comes as AI developers face growing pressure from regulators, companies and researchers to ensure their advanced models are safe and reliable
Notebookcheck
Fake profiles on Instagram and Facebook advertise investments that do not exist, using the face of a well-known German finance educator. A court in Frankfurt has held Meta directly liable, because its ad auction decides which user sees which ad. People who lost money get less out of the ruling than…
Mint — Technology / AI
The lawsuit reportedly argues that the leading AI companies violated antitrust laws when they agreed to coordinate slowdown efforts, and that doing so would reduce the value consumers get for paid AI subscriptions.
Modern Retail / Digital Commerce 360 / AgFunderNews
While other DTC footwear brands like Allbirds struggled, Rothy’s surpassed $200 million in sales by growing carefully, testing retail and wholesale, and managing to avoid DTC's costly expansion traps. Rothy’s CEO and president, Dayna Quanbeck, joined the Modern Retail Podcast to talk about the…
China: SCMP Tech / TechNode / Pandaily / KrASIA / Sixth Tone
Chinese researchers have made early strides in pushing semiconductor processing nodes below 3-nm using older lithography technology, as more advanced extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) tools from ASML remain blocked under US sanctions. The breakthrough marks the latest progress in China’s drive…
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now
California Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order is an opportunity for a needed, thoughtful conversation about artificial intelligence and its potential harms. Everyday Californians are feeling real anxiety about the risks of artificial intelligence, and as an organization that works to ensure…
FedScoop / StateScoop / Nextgov
Lawmakers introduced several measures this week looking to rein in some of the potential abuses and dangers of using AI, as well as a proposal that looks to leverage AI for pediatric cancer research and treatment.
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now
Apple’s new operating system is here, and along with it comes a new version of Siri, dubbed with two very familiar letters: AI. As the name suggests, this Siri power-up resembles an AI chatbot more than the often derided voice assistant you might be used to. It has even evolved from a blob you…
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now
Secure messaging platforms, like Signal, WhatsApp, and recently, encrypted RCS, operate on a straightforward assumption: the content at each end of a conversation is private to the participants in the conversation. End-to-end encryption helps provide the mathematical guarantees that the companies…
FedScoop / StateScoop / Nextgov
EEOC officials touted a long-running discrimination case against NASA as an example why federal sector cases were in need of reform. The employees who brought the case said commissioners railroaded them.
FedScoop / StateScoop / Nextgov
COMMENTARY | Paying for their education should not depend on whether a system failed badly enough to get fixed in the first place.
Canary Media / Heatmap / Latitude Media
1. Suffolk County, New York – Rarely do I get to say battery fire fears can be quelched but we have a very good example brewing in the Empire State. On September 11, New York state regulators did a Friday News Dump: The Department of Environmental Conservation confirmed a large PFAS pollution site…
Modern Retail / Digital Commerce 360 / AgFunderNews
Office Depot’s parent company, formerly known as The ODP Group, has rebranded as Office Depot Group, retiring its distribution business’s name, ODP Business Solutions, in favor of Office Depot Business. The move unifies the 40-year-old Office Depot brand across both its retail stores and B2B…
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News
Husch Blackwell this week launched a new artificial intelligence-focused platform, called CXT (Complex Torts), which will focus on the management and defense of complex litigation such as mass torts.
FedScoop / StateScoop / Nextgov
Fiscal 2027 program starts are already on hold until December.
FedScoop / StateScoop / Nextgov
The agency’s Missing and Murdered Unit will use Clearview AI tools to “rapidly identify and locate missing persons, crime victims, and suspects nationwide,” contracting documents said. The post Interior to use facial recognition AI for missing and murdered persons, human trafficking cases appeared…
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News
Nominations are now open for the 2027 Alli Gerkman Legal Visionary Award, which recognizes an innovator who, early in their career, has made a significant impact toward making the American legal system work better for everyone. That description fits the person for whom the award is named. Alli…
FedScoop / StateScoop / Nextgov
The order directs state officials to accelerate independent AI audits and create new safeguards for frontier models, including emergency “kill switches” and expanded reporting of critical safety incidents.
FedScoop / StateScoop / Nextgov
The latest grants from the Administration for Children and Families aim to help modernize background check systems to speed foster family licensing and child placements.
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News
An update on the legal tech market’s past week, from product launches to new partnerships.
Canary Media / Heatmap / Latitude Media
The fate of permitting reform legislation that could smooth the way to all kinds of new and improved energy infrastructure — including transmission lines and renewables — is currently hostage to opaque discussions between Senate committee chairs. Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, the…
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News
A legal operations professional requested a demo earlier this year with a note that intrigued me. She said that she was going to “stack” a CLM solution, and she was looking for the workflow portion (which is what my product, Josef, does). When we met, I dug in further, finding that she’d piloted…
Game Developer / VGC / GamesIndustry.biz (re-test)
A Shanghai court ruling may signal how Chinese courts will rule on genAI usage.
Semafor (filter tech)
A look at newspaper archives shows parallels in how society debated the impacts of nuclear power and its regulation and AI, though there are limits to the analogy.
Payload (space) / CTVC (climate) / Newcomer (VC)
Plus, Muse gains on Instinct & crypto legislation stalled by Trump’s profiteering.
Modern Retail / Digital Commerce 360 / AgFunderNews
Health & beauty brand Dr. Squatch has been planning for peak sales events in 2026 since January, when it began preparing for Amazon Prime Day and the Cyber 5. Dr. Squatch sells through retailers, direct-to-consumer (DTC) from its own website, and on the Amazon marketplace. It had a “very strong”…