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Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI

At Washington’s request, Anthropic suddenly took its newest and most powerful AI models offline over the weekend. The American company said it had little choice after the White House demanded it block access for all foreign nationals, including its own employees. Abroad, the incident offered a sobering reminder that the US not only dominates frontier […]

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Google Chrome is closing the loopholes that let old ad blockers keep working

Google Chrome version 150 and 151, expected in late June and July, respectively, will cut off support for the last remaining workarounds for running older ad blockers, 9to5Google reports. Google phased out support for ad-blocking extensions built for Manifest V2, like uBlock Origin, in 2024. At that point, most Chrome users either switched to newer […]

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Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation

For months, Big Tech’s Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. This would be a comprehensive federal law, passed in Congress and signed by the president, applying one set of AI rules across the entire country and overriding the legally messy state-by-state approach to regulation. For months, lobbyists have run […]

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Roblox exec says ticking a box for age verification is ‘not enough anymore’

Roblox’s vice president of safety product policy, Eliza Jacobs, told NBC News that Roblox is “optimistic” that its new facial age estimation tech will “continue to get better,” saying, “Ticking a box to say you’re 13 or older, it’s not enough anymore.” NBC invited a group of kids to try out Roblox’s new video selfie […]

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