First Major Attempts to Regulate AI Face Headwinds From All Sides

While over 400 AI-related bills are being debated this year in statehouses nationwide, most target one industry or just a piece of the technology — such as deepfakes used in elections.
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House Passes Reauthorization of Key US Surveillance Program After Days of Upheaval Over Changes

The bill was approved on a bipartisan basis, 273-147, though it will still have to clear the Senate to become law.
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US-China Competition to Field Military Drone Swarms Could Fuel Global Arms Race

Military planners envision a scenario in which hundreds, even thousands of AI-powered machines engage in coordinated battle.
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House Will Try Again on Reauthorization of US Spy Program After Republican Upheaval

Speaker Mike Johnson is expected to bring forward a Plan B that would reform and extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for a shortened period of two years.
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Conservative Revolt in the House Blocks Effort to Reauthorize a Key US Spy Tool

A bill that would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was blocked by a conservative revolt.
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Key Lawmakers Float New Rules for Personal Data Protection; Bill Would Make Privacy a Consumer Right

The American Privacy Rights Act would preempt most state privacy laws — though it wouldn’t impact certain states’ laws already on the books that protect financial, health or employee data.
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Browsing in Incognito Mode Doesn’t Protect You as Much as You Might Think

Incognito modes generally do not prevent the websites you visit from seeing your location, via your IP address, or stop your internet service provider from logging your activities.
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Tech Companies Want to Build Artificial General Intelligence. But Who Decides When AGI is Attained?

With so much money riding on the promise of AI advances, it’s no surprise that AGI is also becoming a corporate buzzword that sometimes attracts a quasi-religious fervor.
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Scathing Federal Report Rips Microsoft for Shoddy Security, Insincerity in Response to Chinese Hack

Cyber Safety Review Board, said “a cascade of errors” by Microsoft let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials.
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