Author: Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner

A bipartisan group of Senate lawmakers introduced legislation to set guidelines and guardrails for generative artificial intelligence. The senators, led by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and John Thune (R-SD), introduced the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research, Innovation, and Accountability Act of 2023 on Tuesday. The bill provides a thorough framework for “bolstering innovation” while bringing “greater…

Facebook parent company Meta is calling on Congress to pass legislation that would make age restrictions on its rivals’ app stores much tighter to limit inappropriate content for teenagers. The company released a blog post on Wednesday backing requirements that app stores get parental permissions for users aged 13 to 15 to download apps. That…

A federal judge rejected a request by Big Tech companies to dismiss a nationwide lawsuit accusing the platforms of illegally enticing and addicting teenagers at the cost of their mental health. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers denied the request from Google, Meta, ByteDance, and Snap in a Tuesday order in the Northern District of…

State agencies in Maine fell victim to a cyberattack and lost nearly all of the state population’s data to hackers. The state government reported on Thursday that 1.3 million individuals had their data stolen by ransomware hackers, meaning people who install software locking up a user’s data and requiring a ransom to free it. SOCIAL…

The competition among Republican presidential candidates on the debate stage to signal eagerness to ban TikTok drew a contrast with the lack of clarity about front-runner Donald Trump‘s intentions for the ubiquitous social media platform. The presidential candidates who appeared onstage Wednesday spoke in favor of banning TikTok or forcing a sale by its Chinese…

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy swung at each other during the third Republican primary presidential debate over their use of TikTok, with Haley calling her opponent scum. Haley and Ramaswamy appeared at the third Republican debate on Wednesday, where the moderators asked each candidate whether they would ban TikTok, the China-owned…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) latest “Insight Forums,” held Wednesday, explored protecting elections from the influence of artificial intelligence and ensuring user data is kept private. The two events were the fifth and sixth forum in Schumer’s series, meant to help Congress expedite the drafting of legislation so that the United States has guardrails…

Big Tech companies have moved to stifle the use of artificial intelligence in political advertising months before Congress gets a chance to set the rules. Meta and Microsoft announced initiatives on Wednesday to provide rules and tools for reining in political ads containing AI-generated images. The announcements coincide with both companies having executives appear at…

Google and major European mobile carriers are attempting to use new European Union digital laws to force Apple to share its iMessage blue bubbles with Android devices. The search engine has long pressured Apple to abandon the unique encryption behind iMessage and embrace RCS, Google’s preferred DM encoding. The difference in encryption limits functionality between…

A former security engineer from Meta testified to Congress on Tuesday that the company chose not to respond to internal data indicating that more teenagers were being harmed by Instagram and Facebook than public data indicated. Facebook whistleblower Arturo Bejar appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to provide his perspective on Meta’s approach…