Breaking: Congress just passed the TikTok divest-or-ban bill, which Biden is expected to sign into law. washingtonpost.com/technology/202… by Cristiano Lima-Strong

it's wild that the world's most popular podcast includes lengthy segments discussing scientific topics in which the host, whose background is in comedy and hosting game shows, is actually the more informed of the two discussants

There's already so much online child sex abuse material that the system for reporting and investigating it is crumbling.

A flood of AI-generated child porn is about to make the problem much worse. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

It’s hard to believe that even Meta believes this is something that people actually want

this continues to go well

NEW: Sen. Maria Cantwell is closing in on an elusive data privacy law. But for years, she's been one of the biggest obstacles to a deal, according to interviews w/ over a dozen current & former aides. My inside look at years of past failed talks: washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

In a House hearing on Section 230 reform, lawmakers keep asking whether generative AI is protected by Section 230, and the expert witnesses have all said they don't think it should be.

But I'm not hearing people clarify whose immunity they're asking about: the maker of the gen

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot tweet, the courage to tweet the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

This is fascinating, and don't think I've seen it before—a tech co advertising its services as '100% LLM-Free' as a selling point.

Will have to look closer at the company, but another sign of the changing tide with regard to generative AI, perhaps...

inqwire.io

Fun fact: It isn't that looking at the sun *during an eclipse* is bad for your eyes. It's that looking at the sun *anytime* is bad for your eyes, and the eclipse is a time when people are tempted to look at the sun.

My 2017 post on this: slate.com/technology/201…