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Trump signs an EO to end “federal censorship” of online platforms, and directs the AG to probe if the Biden admin engaged in censorship of Americans' views (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-21 Trump U.S.

US and European officials: evidence suggests recent damage to Baltic Sea subsea internet cables was likely caused by maritime accidents, not Russian sabotage (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-20 Russia Europe

TikTok bans in countries around the world have played out quite differently; Instagram Reels largely replaced TikTok in India, following TikTok's ban in 2020 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-19 India Instagram Ban

A whistleblower complaint claims Amazon paid $380M for licensing robot maker Covariant's tech and hiring its staff, and the deal merits antitrust scrutiny (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-19 Amazon Robot

Sources: Donald Trump is considering issuing an executive order once in office that would suspend enforcement of the TikTok sale-or-ban law for 60 to 90 days (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-16 Trump Ban

Donald Trump is considering issuing an executive order once in office that would suspend enforcement of the TikTok sale-or-ban law for 60 to 90 days (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-16 Trump Ban

An investigation finds 15 police departments across 12 US states have arrested suspects identified through facial recognition without having any other evidence (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-14 Facial Recognition

Meta's fact-checking overhaul is set to deepen a growing schism between how platforms do content moderation in the US and in stricter regions like Europe (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-9 Europe

How Huawei is flourishing despite harsh US sanctions, demonstrating the resilience of a company at the center of a worsening cold war between the US and China (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-5 China

Sources: Chinese government hackers breached the US Treasury Department's OFAC, which administers economic sanctions, and two other Treasury offices (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-2 China

Elon Musk got new support for his OpenAI lawsuit in filings last week, including from tech advocacy group Encode, backed by AI researchers like Geoffrey Hinton (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-2 AI Elon Musk

Waymo robotaxis, which are now ubiquitous in parts of CA, will often not stop for pedestrians using crosswalks there, unless a pedestrian is far into the road (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-12-31

Johns Hopkins and Stanford researchers say they trained robots with videos to perform surgical tasks with the skill of human doctors, even correcting mistakes (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-12-30 Robot

Sources detail IDF's Unit 8200, tasked with identifying human targets as candidates for elimination during the war in Gaza; one describes it as an “AI factory” (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-12-30 AI

How some doctors are using AI tools, like DAX Copilot from Microsoft's Nuance, to automate administrative tasks like taking and summarizing notes (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-12-27 Microsoft AI

Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 2028, as the state races to increase electricity production (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-12-25

A US judge finds NSO Group liable for exploiting a bug in WhatsApp to spy on 1,400 users and that WhatsApp is entitled to sanctions against NSO (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-12-21 WhatsApp

Congress approves $3B in funding for a project to remove Huawei and ZTE equipment from US phone networks nationwide; Trump's FCC started the initiative in 2020 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-12-20 Trump

Congress approves $3B in funding for a project to remove Huawei and ZTE equipment from US networks nationwide; Trump's FCC started the initiative in 2020 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-12-19 Trump

The US FTC issues long-awaited rules requiring companies to display the full price of hotels, concert tickets, and more up front, rather than hiding “junk fees” (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-12-18

Donald Bitzer, plasma screen co-inventor and the father of PLATO computer system, considered a precursor to messaging apps and more, died on December 10 at 90 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-12-15

An investigation into the suicide of a Minnesota man details how an online terrorist network called 764 has used Discord to find and torment vulnerable people (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-12-11 Terrorism

Sauron, which is touting a waiting list of tech CEOs and VCs for its home security system that incorporates drones and facial recognition, raised a $18M seed (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-12-7 Drone Facial Recognition

OpenAI suspends early access to Sora after ~20 artists leaked access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals as “PR puppets” (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-28

OpenAI suspends access to Sora in response to a group of artists leaking access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-27

The US DOJ and Google made their closing arguments in the ad-market antitrust case before Judge Leonie Brinkema, who expressed some skepticism toward both sides (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-26 Google

Sources: Marc Andreessen, Travis Kalanick, and others are involved in Department of Government Efficiency; Andreessen is acting as a networker for recruitment (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-25

Sources: two congressional Republicans prepare an age verification bill that puts the onus for age verification on app store operators, boosting Meta's campaign (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-22 Republican

Trump Media has a ~$7B market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb: Truth Social site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-20 Trump

Microsoft unveils a new AI interpreter in Teams that can simulate voices and offer near-real-time voice interpretation in nine languages, launching in preview (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-20 Microsoft AI

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