Hilarious editor's note on this one: www.axios.com/2026/01/21/g...

Still can’t believe ICE killed that Good woman.

Excellent piece on the "Commercial off the shelf" or COTS exceptions the tech industry is constantly looking to expand.

25/...But it is also pushing national security agencies towards faster and greater dependence on industry for its technology needs, increasing exposure to these risks.

theonion.com/what-to-know... Excellence.

On the left, the NYT valorizing Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski for standing up to Trump. On the right, a commenter on the blog of a local independent writer, a few days later when she cast the deciding vote to block release of the Epstein files.

Okay, but I'm pretty sure the current law that it would replace also takes away the private right of action and in addition has a huge liability shield for companies...https://www.levernews.com/lawmakers-backtrack-on-ais-get-out-of-jail-free-bill/

This feels like a new low from Zuckerberg: www.reuters.com/investigates... The Wall Street Journal report from back in April has more details on how he pushed staffers to undo the related guardrails. Truly disgusting.

will be interesting to see how much property owners under the restrictions of DOJ's settlement continue to rely, or not, on algorithmic price setting tools like RealPages'.

Fun turns of phrase at the judiciary on AI and Copyright: "The death-knell doctrine" and the issue of "the rare changelings."

AI appreciation day, now? Give me a break, JFC

from my inbox this recess week, pls send help:

The potential deportation of the leading mayoral candidate for NYC is rightfully getting a lot of attention, but there are also stories like this one: abcnews.go.com/US/governmen...

Nancy Mace is especially sickening here. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u... The update of Hochul defending him against Trump is good at least...

That she hasn’t apologized for this is the wreckage of tribalism. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Don't look away. Read every one of these soldiers' quotes. Understand the nature of what's happening here. #WarCrimes www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Can confirm: my homemade hair mask--egg yolk, avocado, banana, coconut oil and honey--is delicious!

Funny how when the conversation is about regulations the private sector describes the government as overly risk averse but then when it's about "public-private partnerships" and technology transfers, the government needs to help the private sector "de-risk" their investments with taxpayer dollars.

Our little station in Fort Reno Park today. No kings, dammnit.

The May 21 decision in the Character AI lawsuit is a really good read. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Big hair energy, after reporting on another day of AI mumbo jumbo.

Very proud to be partnered with one @bergmayer.net , who works in the public’s interest. youtu.be/D006HMr8TDs?...

The Commerce Department banned those NVIDIA H20 chips from going to China after they were specifically designed to meet US export control rules and then the Anthropic CEO (after DeepSeek) said those chips, specifically, should be banned, moving the goal post. insideaipolicy.com/ai-daily-new...

More Gaza-war protesters here at the AI+ Expo, during Eric Schmidt’s session: “no tech for genocide.” 🪧 (Yesterday: “Palantir has blood on its hands” 🩸)

No one’s built an agent that works yet, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott tells me. But things like MCP are maybe the beginnings of how they’ll get built - if anyone can figure out the business models www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

he’s also splitting with his own AG in endorsing a federal moratorium on states enforcing their own AI laws, including the Colorado AI Act, which he signed!

Lining up to normalize extrajudicial killings for $$$ x.com/StockMKTNewz...

So, language from the "non-profit killer" is back in the budget reconciliation bill being considered. (starting on page 380, here. And to save you the search, "material support" means "any service, or tangible or intangible property." waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u...

NEW: I obtained two internal Google reports that indicate the company has little control over Project Nimbus, its contract with the Israeli gov/military, and is largely in the dark about how it's being used. theintercept.com/2025/05/12/g...

Go pope go.

Asked how the government might help to protect average rate payers as AI companies try to erect more power-hungry data centers, Altman's proposed solution is essentially drill baby drill. Says the Market will take care of it if we just increase supply.

Cruz announces he'll introduce a "regulatory sandbox bill" for AI. Consumer advocates reject this model, which is being circulated by ALEC, drafted by industry-backed allies (see link). rtp.fedsoc.org/blog/a-sensi... Basically let's companies negotiate their own rules behind closed doors.

In case there was any doubt, here is Elizabeth Kelly, who was leading the AI Safety Institute at NIST, making use of the ol’ revolving door. Other Anthropic connections are still at the institute, where the idea is to test models to foster consumer trust. www.fastcompany.com/91328039/ant...

yeah, bad, bad, bad, but also a problem beyond Politico, of course. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-cor...

This one is worth the free trial if you're a foreign national. The administration's point is that immigrants don't matter. And Palantir is officially back in the game now; get ready for the walls around DHS' infamous RAVEN database to come down: insideaipolicy.com/ai-daily-new...

Becoming harder to avoid the conversation about Palestine on my beat apnews.com/article/trum...

Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), an active member on crafting legislation to prevent algorithmic discrimination, just now to the head of Scale AI, the subject of multiple lawsuits including in conjunction with wage theft: "You're makin' it happen, we're proud of you."

This year's Stanford AI index is chock full of reportables. Here's the teaser for my story on them saying assessments by METR and the current state of benchmarks for measuring responsible AI is not cutting it: insideaipolicy.com/ai-daily-new...

Pray tell, who is the Democrats' witness here?

"The important 'safety' work of making AI more right wing" -- @bergmayer.net Also suggests you can't maximize both scale and control with these things...

This seems good at least? apple.news/AubYjGTjQTw2...

NEWS: @epic.org leaves NIST's AI Safety Institute consortium under Trump, "cannot remain part of an institution that is being directly ordered to ignore some of the most significant and harmful AI impacts because of an ideological agenda against acknowledging bias and harm.”

Read my fascinating conversation w/ @rondeibert.bsky.social of @citizenlab.ca on the org's technical approach to finding spyware, why there is likely spyware that has not yet been discovered + more. Of spyware use under Trump: "We should all be prepared for the worst" therecord.media/ron-deibert-...

How Trump's dimunution of the FTC could raise the cost of your eggs. Think surveillance, not inflation. insideaipolicy.com/ai-daily-new...

For those who care about AI and water consumption, the conversation around data centers should be probably be eclipsed by chip fabrication. www.weforum.org/stories/2024...

Just got a bounce back from the AISI's now-former press person. Can't really blame folks who decided to forego sending comments to NIST at this particular juncture in favor of submitting to the White House on the action plan they're developing there instead.

It all comes back to standards. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

In Trump's America, the AI Safety Institute is not allowed to talk about AI Safety.... www.wired.com/story/ai-saf... wild stuff on my beat.

Saudi Arabia just bought Pokemon Go, and probably all of your location data. Niantic (Pokemon Go creator) now spinning off their AI mapping business which was using Pokemon Go data to build an AI model www.404media.co/saudi-arabia...