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State regulators are ramping up children's privacy enforcement, focusing on parental consent, company knowledge of minors, and protective safeguards.

Experts call for robust enforcement of the rules on general-purpose AI with systemic risk, as the Commission unveils a new plan on advanced AI and cybersecurity.

Published 13 July 2026 — 3 minute READ Image — Kanishka Narayan, the UK’s Minister for Artificial Intelligence and Online Safety, speaks at an event celebrating the AI Impact Summit 2026, in New Delhi ...

Last October, I published a blog proposing a different mental model for AI agents: Treat them as cognitive skills and products, not as digital employees. That framing has since resonated strongly with Forrester clients, particularly technology leaders building agentic capabilities inside the enterprise. But the concept of a cognitive skill in that blog was deliberately loose. […]

Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI) I went looking for a definition of "Directly Responsible Individuals" and the best I found was in the GitLab handbook. Apparently the term originated at Apple, where it's used to describe the person who is "ultimately accountable for the success or failure of a specific project, initiative, or activity". I've been thinking about this term recently in the context of LLM-powered agents and how they fit into human organizations. I don't think an agent should e

Release: shot-scraper 1.11 Some minor improvements, mainly around command option consistency and making the server: mechanism used by both shot-scraper video and shot-scraper multi work if the server takes longer than a second to start serving traffic. server: processes used by shot-scraper multi and shot-scraper video now wait up to 30 seconds for the target URL to accept connections, polling for port availability and replacing the previous fixed one-second delay. #197 The shot-scraper , pdf ,

CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an article published by The Financial Times. The article examines why companies around the world are increasingly adopting Chinese AI models, drawn by their lower costs, improving capabilities, and the flexibility offered by open-weight systems. The post Companies turn to Chinese AI models to cut costs appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .

Image — The ‘Climate Changed Oak Tree’ in Kew Gardens, London, on 22 June 2026 at the start of London Climate Action Week. Photo by Brook Mitchell / AFP via Getty Images. As much of Europe emerged ...

More own goals than Scotland

Release: sqlite-utils 4.1 The first dot-release since 4.0 a few days ago , introducing a number of minor new features. sqlite-utils insert and sqlite-utils upsert now accept a --code option for providing a block of Python code (or a path to a .py file) that defines a rows() function or rows iterable of rows to insert, as an alternative to importing from a file. ( #684 ) sqlite-utils already had features that allow you to pass blocks of Python code as CLI arguments, for example this one for the s

Here at the National Academy of Sciences, it seems that my first job is to serve on the selection committee for the prestigious Michael and Sheila Held Prize in combinatorial and discrete optimization and related areas. The committee chair, my former MIT colleague Madhu Sudan (now at Harvard), invited me to share the following message […]

Five frames for seeing how AI is reshaping decisions, accountability, and knowledge.

Today's links Workplace "flexibility" isn't: What the gig economy calls flexibility is just risk-shifting. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Alanya to Alanya"; ToS are the internet's biggest lie; Soviet jokes; Fox rapists v gag orders; GBAO is the future; "Fun Family"; Sacklers get to keep the loot. Upcoming appearances: London, Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Brighton, London, South Bend. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep

GENEVA, July 10, 2026 - The AI for Good Global Summit concluded following four days of sessions that demonstrated the widespread application of artificial intelligence in a variety of sectors, including health and agriculture, mobility, education, creative industries, and public policy. The summit also raised awareness of quantum technologies, robotics, and the standards and infrastructure required to facilitate their widespread deployment. The post Day 4 at the AI for Good Global Summit: Women’

In a rare combined cybersecurity/squid post, a twenty-nine-year-old squid proxy bug can leak HTTP requests. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.

On July 9th, President Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and accepted the resignation of its lone remaining Republican, leaving the agency with zero sitting commissioners four months before the midterms. The White House cited last month’s Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Slaughter, which overturned decades of precedent […] The post After the Firings, Election Officials Need a Plan B for the EAC appeared first on Center for Democracy and Tec

HydroShear, a new physics-based simulator, teaches robots how to use their sense of touch to perform complex manipulation tasks, in a way that transfers seamlessly to the real world.

Download the final report here. Artificial Intelligence is showing enormous promise for improving our daily life. Countless applications in many sectors of the economy are already being developed and ...

The post The Robotics for Good Youth Challenge 2026 comes to an end as winners are awarded appeared first on AI for Good .

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CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an article published by The Wall Street Journal. The article examines China’s successful launch and recovery of the Long March-10B rocket booster, a milestone that could significantly reduce launch costs and strengthen China’s ambitions to become a leading space power. The post China Successfully Launches Reusable Rocket in a Win for Space Program appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .

Last weekend I was in Erfurt, the place where the authoritarian-populist AfD party held its annual federal convention. On Saturday I got up at the crack of dawn to help block the AfD delegates from reaching the assembly hall. Was I supposed to do that? As managing director of a legal-scholarly discourse platform should I not have remained neutral? The demand to forbid oneself from discriminating between non-banned parties loyal to the constitution and non-banned parties hostile to it is question

In my first weeks as Executive Director of EFF, I’ve been reminded every day how consequential this moment is in determining what kind of future we will have. We are on the edge. What each one of us steps up to do – with our expertise, energy, and resources – will determine whether our future is one of openness, security, and fundamental rights, or one controlled through fear, surveillance, and centralized power. I am proud to take the torch and help lead our EFF community forward at this pivota

As I’ve written before, these past couple years I’ve often felt like the last remaining person in either quantum computing or AI who lacked a stake in some startup company whose valuation is right now shooting into interstellar space. My academic colleagues, including the ones who seemed the most singleminded about quantum oracle separations and […]

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CSET Executive Director Helen Toner spoke about the global AI competition at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The post Helen Toner Discusses U.S.-China AI Race at Aspen Ideas Festival appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last night, federal lawmakers introduced the People-First Chatbot Act, a clear framework to make chatbots safer for everyone and address the harms caused by AI chatbots that were rushed into the public’s hands with little oversight or transparency. EPIC applauds Reps. Valerie Foushee and Greg Casar for sponsoring this important bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last night, federal lawmakers introduced the People-First Chatbot Act, a clear framework to make chatbots safer for everyone and address the harms caused by AI chatbots that were rushed into the public’s hands with little oversight or transparency. EPIC applauds Reps. Valerie Foushee and Greg Casar for sponsoring this important bill. This legislation was crafted to ensure that the companies operating AI chatbots provide users with clear disclosures, material safeguards, and co

This post is part 2 in a series about automated content moderation. Read the first post here . When whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked a set of documents from Meta in 2020, among the revelations was a jarring statistic: The company’s algorithms designed to detect terrorist content incorrectly deleted nonviolent Arabic-language content 77 percent of the time, while failing to detect hate speech under the company’s own policies in many instances. Meta’s own transparency report released later that

This guest post, by Katherine Klosek of ARL and Stephen Wolfson of the University of Pennsylvania, is the latest in […]

Key insights from the latest AI Safety Index | Edition #305

Co-authored with Kelly Brandmeyer, FPF U.S. Policy Intern In a two-day span from June 28 to June 30, the New Jersey legislature introduced and passed A5328, amending New Jersey’s comprehensive privacy law and establishing new data broker and “data collector” registration requirements. The new data broker law has a uniquely broad scope and high financial […]

The Summer of Ludd just wrapped in NYC; we talk to a participant and documentarian. Plus, is the Trump admin secretly worried about an AI bubble? The biggest-ever data center gets shut down, and more.

This is part 2 of the weekly, broadly covering speculation, rhetoric and policy, along with alignment research.

The Robotics for Good Youth Challenge Grand Finale will reach its conclusion on the Youth Stage from 14:10 to 14:45. After four days of competition, the challenge will come to an end, closing a season that opened the Youth Zone's programme on 7 July. The post Top 3 things happening on Day 4 of the AI for Good Global Summit 2026 appeared first on AI for Good .

In the near future, AI -powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do something wrong—shoplift, litter, jaywalk, you name it—the system will notice, retain it, tie it to your official government record, communicate that fact to you, and provide real-time alerts to any relevant authorities… and maybe also to the general public. Think of these systems as automated speed cameras, but on steroids. Only they’ll enforce n

Today's links "Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy: When we were robots in Egypt… Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Awkward questions for the entertainment industry; ISP v record label death penalty; Coming out on Splash Mountain; Negative Swiss bond yields; Are We Having Fun Yet? Upcoming appearances: London, Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Brighton, London, South Bend. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'e

CSET’s Jacob Feldgoise shared his expert insight in an article published by The Wall Street Journal. The article explores the U.S. government’s increasingly active role in supporting domestic semiconductor manufacturing and examines Intel’s efforts to reestablish itself as a leading American chipmaker amid growing competition. The post The White House Made Fixing Intel Its Pet Project. It’s Working. appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .

Microsoft’s latest Secure Future Initiative report outlines progress on secure foundations, AI-powered defense, and future-ready cybersecurity.

Data centers are so hot right now—and not just because of the waste heat. From the halls of Congress to the digital world of podcasts, it seems like all people want to talk about is artificial ...