The December 16 Oakland city council debate reveals escalating conflicts over private surveillance, with local officials and citizens split on Flock Safety’s use and data sharing, highlighting broader national struggles over privacy, law enforcement, and community autonomy. The December 16 debate inside Oakland’s council chamber laid bare a national dispute about safety, privacy and the growing reach of private surveillance. Citizens denounced the city’s proposed contract extension with Flock Safety using stark language , “You are doing more to advance Trump’s agenda in Oakland than anyone,” one resident told councillors, while another invoked family history of persecution: “My parents were…
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A popular folk-pop track with over five million streams has been removed from Sweden’s official charts after investigators confirmed it was primarily AI-generated, highlighting ongoing tensions over AI’s role in music and industry rules. A folk-pop single that has been streamed millions of times has been barred from Sweden’s official…
A month-long experiment with AI chatbots reveals systemic flaws in automated news aggregation, including broken links, fabricated sources, and misinformation, raising concerns about their role in factual reporting amid increasing reliance on AI sources. When a journalism professor at the University of Quebec at Montreal spent a month getting his…
The Wikimedia Foundation has formalised licensing agreements with major tech companies to provide sanctioned access to Wikipedia content for AI development, aiming to enhance revenue, accountability, and sustainability amid rising operational costs and declining human traffic. The Wikimedia Foundation has this month formalised licensing agreements with a string of major…
Valve has revised its policies on AI transparency on Steam, detailing when developers must disclose the use of generative AI in games, as industry disclosures spike by 800% in 2025. Valve has substantially rewritten Steam’s rules on how developers must disclose the use of generative AI, clarifying that routine “AI-powered…
As xAI faces mounting criticism over its Grok chatbot, governments worldwide escalate legal actions and bans, exposing a widening gap between rapid AI innovation and existing laws on image manipulation and digital safety. As controversy over xAI’s Grok chatbot has escalated, governments around the world have moved from criticism to…
Ashley St. Clair has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI, accusing its Grok chatbot of enabling sexually exploitative deepfakes and facing retaliatory measures after reporting the issue. The case highlights growing concerns over AI-generated content and online safety regulations. The mother of one of Elon Musk’s children has sued…
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The launch of xAI’s Grok chatbot has sparked an international backlash after it was found to generate non-consensual sexual deepfakes involving minors and women, prompting investigations and regulatory responses across multiple countries. Elon Musk’s xAI is facing an international backlash after its chatbot, Grok, was shown to generate non-consensual sexual…
As countries grapple with the legal and ethical implications of training AI models on publicly accessible personal information, divergent regulatory approaches threaten to reshape global AI leadership and privacy protections. Should AI models be permitted to train on personal information that is publicly available on the Internet? The question is…
As 2025 closed, the European Union demonstrated a tough stance on Big Tech with fines and investigations, facing political pressures and debating the potential of structural remedies to reshape digital markets in 2026. In Brussels, 2025 closed on the same question that opened it: how far can the European Union…
EU institutions have launched new initiatives, including AI regulatory sandboxes and transparency codes for generative AI, signalling a shift from principles to practice amid ongoing debates over copyright, competition, and cross-border data flows. The European regulatory landscape for artificial intelligence and data protection entered January with a flurry of concrete…
The growing deployment of live facial recognition in UK shops sparks debate over effectiveness, privacy rights, and potential misuse amid accusations of wrongful targeting and unequal application. Retailers’ use of live facial recognition to deter shoplifting has escalated into a national controversy, with companies and technology providers insisting the systems…
Authorities in Malaysia, France, and India have launched investigations into Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok following reports of the platform being exploited to generate sexualised images of women and minors, raising urgent questions about regulation and safety in generative AI technology. Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has come under fresh…
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