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This three-part blog series explores the growing complementarity between artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum technologies. The first post introduced quantum technologies and outlined their strengths and the challenges of combining AI with quantum systems. The second examined how AI can support the development of quantum technologies, helping to optimise systems and accelerate progress towards practical […] The post How quantum technologies could open new frontiers for AI appeared first on O

Congress is closer than ever to rewriting the rules for young people online. Just last week, the House of Representatives passed the KIDS Act, which includes a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) 2.0. Most of the public debate has centered on what these […] The post Should Have Known Is the Wrong Standard for Kids’ Safety Laws appeared first on Center for Democracy and Technology .

CSET’s Helen Toner shared her expert insight in an article published by WIRED. The article explores Anthropic’s philosophy of advancing cutting-edge AI while simultaneously positioning itself as a leader in AI safety. The post Anthropic Thinks Its Own Success Is Key to Making AI Safe appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .

Nations have long invested in domestic infrastructure to advance their economies, protect and use their data, and take advantage of technology opportunities in areas such as transportation, communications, commerce, entertainment and healthcare. AI, the most important technology of our time, is turbocharging innovation across every facet of society. Countries are investing in AI capabilities so […]

Senators Grassley and Klobuchar have re-introduced the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), to address competition concerns with market concentration in the online platform marketplace. The new bill is similar to a version of the bill that saw action two Congresses ago, but has been revised in significant respects. As the letter indicates, CDT plans […] The post CDT Letter on Reintroduced AICOA Bill appeared first on Center for Democracy and Technology .

Integration Through Law was and remains, in various forms, the major driver of European integration. Constitutional Pluralism arose out of constitutionalisation, counterbalancing the move to neoliberalism in the new millennium. In Commission v Hungary, the Court recognised European society “in which pluralism prevails” as a legal concept. The Court radiates judicial authority at a time when Europe is again in crisis, politically through populism, economically through competitiveness and sustaina

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Can one speak of a European society without speaking about private relations? Recent scholarship on European society has largely approached the concept through the lens of public law. Yet societies are constituted at least as much by the horizontal relations between individuals and groups as by public institutions. This blogpost turns to EU private international law (PIL) and will argue that EU PIL brings into view the importance of coordination frameworks for organising a mode of integration ba

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Amid pending proceedings before the ECtHR concerning summary expulsions and arbitrary detentions, in a context marked by over 120,000 documented push-backs on the Belarusian border, the Chișinău Declaration seeks to influence the legal framework within which the Court assesses such practices. The Declaration emphasises the fundamental duty of states to protect their borders and maintain national security in the context of instrumentalisation of migration, drawing on “democracy capable of defendi

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The punk-rap duo Bob Vylan has filed defamation proceedings against the BBC in the High Court in Ireland, following its coverage of their 2025 Glastonbury performance, which the broadcaster described as containing “anti-Semitic sentiments.” The case stems from controversy over chants the band led calling for “death to the IDF [Israel Defence Force],” which the […]

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Read five key learnings from the Frost & Sullivan 2025 Frost Radar™ for CSPM to learn how CSPM is evolving from point-in-time compliance to continuous risk management.

On the morning of 4 September, CEPS will convene a public event to launch a report summarising the work of a CEPS Task Force on ‘Next steps for EU law and regulation for the digital world’. The need ...

Access Now joins more than 20 human rights organizations and individuals in condemning Pegasus spyware attack against Stelios Kouloglou, Greek journalist and then-Member of the European Parliament The post Same government, more victims: Access Now calls for an urgent investigation into hacking of MEP appeared first on Access Now .

CDT Europe is publishing a joint statement with civil society organisations and individual signatories calling on the EU institutions to regulate spyware technologies after the 2026 Citizen Lab revelations. On 3 July 2026, a forensic analysis by the Citizen Lab revealed that Stelios Kouloglou, former Member of the European Parliament and investigative journalist, was targeted […] The post Joint Statement: Pegasus in the European Parliament, the EU Must Act Now appeared first on Center for Democr

We are facing a storm of geopolitical instability, economic coercion, AI and climate change – and it’s likely to get worse. But by working more closely with Europe and seeking greater cooperation ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Texas law requiring websites with substantial sexual content to use age verification to prevent access by minors. This was a significant win for states enforcing ...

I just launched my third course, Whimsical Animations, and so far, it’s on track to sell roughly ⅓ as many copies as a typical course launch. It’s a similar story with my two existing courses. Sales are down significantly from last year. There are likely a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest is AI. There’s sort of a double whammy with AI: Many people are wondering whether developer jobs will even exist in a few months, so they’re reluctant to spend time/money learning new dev skills

The American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act rests on a sweeping claim about the ownership of value created by artificial intelligence. Because AI models are trained on data generated by the public, the bill treats the resulting gains as a public resource subject to state control and redistribution. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) proposal would require ... The Fatal Conceit Gets a GPU Cluster: Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Socialize AI The post The Fatal Conceit Gets a GPU Cluster: Bernie Sanders’ Plan t

I went into my kid’s school a couple months back and spoke to the year group about manufacturing. Honestly it was the most rewarding speaking gig I’ve done all year. It was about the process of making my AI clock and I have a ton of pics from my factory visit to Shenzhen (mostly pics that I have only shared with Kickstarter backers). I talked about where ideas come from and the value of playing around, and how it’s neat to learn new techniques that you can combine together. I talked about protot

Plus, a data center rebellion erupts in Canada, Gen Z says it's sexy to be a Luddite, and the push to paint anti-tech activists as extremists. This is Episode 2 of the BITM show with guest Paris Marx.

This is from a 2024 company presentation : Officers can also tap into data showing a car’s decals, bumper stickers, back and top racks—along with temporary and unique state tags. Flock calls it a “Vehicle Fingerprint” and it’s touted as a way for law enforcement officials to get more information “even when you don’t have full plate information,” the company’s presentation shows. The company gives police officers the ability to search that data as well, to “build stronger cases with less informat

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The Vercel Chief of Software explains how its agent framework, eve, was created — and why skills, sandboxes and agent-readable websites now matter.

Adobe is experimenting with “agentic sites” that generate pages around an individual user’s intent. At AIEWF, we talked to Carlos Sanchez about the Web's future.

CSET’s Jessica Ji shared her expert insight in an article published by CNBC. The article examines the House passage of the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act, a bill aimed at strengthening protections for minors online through age verification, content restrictions, and parental oversight tools. The post A major online safety bill for kids just passed the House. Here’s what experts say parents need to know appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .

Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to the SigmaWest science camp and then STOC, there was much talk about a recent Trump administration action that would ban not only differential privacy, but […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple security firms connecting NetNut to the Popa botnet, a collection of at least two million devices that have been compromised by malicious software wi

We recently ran a strategy fellowship through Astra. As part of this, we ran a reading group for our fellows on some of the topics that we think are important for thinking about AI futurism (key dynamics in AI development, existential risk from AI, and approaches to mitigating risk). This post contains the reading list we used.

Antitrust agencies have a habit of giving new labels to old anxieties. In artificial intelligence, the latest worry is that partnerships between large technology firms and startups are not partnerships at all, but mergers in clever disguises. In the first article in this series, we examined how Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) has ... Killer Theories and Acqui-Hire Alibis The post Killer Theories and Acqui-Hire Alibis appeared first on Truth on the Market .

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill has signed A5328, banning the sale of sensitive data and creating a data broker registry in New Jersey. The ban on sale applies to all forms of sensitive data under the New Jersey Data Privacy Act and applies to all entities regardless of the number of consumers whose data the … Continued

X Corp. should not be able to escape privacy compliance because it changed its name. On May 15, X Corp. filed a petition before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to set aside or modify an order issued in 2022 requiring the company to report regularly to the FTC for its violations of user data. The order or “consent decree” is a result of misleading the platforms’ 140 million users by using private information given to secure accounts, like phone numbers and email addresses, for targeted adverti

Paul Bakaus talks to us about Impeccable, human judgment in a 'loopmaxxing' era, and why agents still need people to steer them.

For roughly 90 years, Humphrey’s Executor had been the constitutional law equivalent of a load-bearing antique: an awkward, if still functioning, architectural kludge, much admired in certain circles, but increasingly hard to rationalize. Earlier this week, finally, the U.S. Supreme Court replaced it. In Trump v. Slaughter, the Court overruled that 1935 opinion. The president ... Much Ado About Removal: The Supreme Court, the FTC, and the End of Independent-ish Agencies The post Much Ado About R

Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an extensive database of international case law. This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. Across Kenya, more than 350 anti-government protesters were arrested last […]

OpenAI’s proposal to hand the U.S. government a 5 percent equity stake has made a theoretical debate over the relationship between private corporations and the government into an immediately relevant ...

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On Tuesday, the United States Department of Commerce removed restrictions on two of Anthropic’s new advanced AI models that have prompted security concerns: Mythos 5 and Fable 5. This is a major ...