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Sources: the NHTSA is losing about 10% of its workforce through firings and buyout offers, including half of a small team that regulates autonomous vehicles (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-22 Autonomous Car

Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Andy Biggs write to National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard asking her to demand the UK retract its back door request to Apple (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-13 Apple Intelligence

How DeepSeek's R1 accelerated the rollout of chatbots showing their “thinking” process; an expert says seeing a chatbot's inner monologue can trigger empathy (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-10 chatbot

Sources: in a secret January order, UK security officials demanded that Apple create a backdoor to access all cloud content any Apple user globally has uploaded (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-8 Apple

Sources: in a secret order last month, UK security officials demanded Apple create a backdoor to access all cloud content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-7 Apple

Sources: DOGE is processing sensitive data from across the Education Department with AI tools in Microsoft's Azure to look for potential spending cuts (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-7 Microsoft AI Education

Google drops language from its AI Principles that said it would not pursue AI applications “likely to cause overall harm”, such as for weapons and surveillance (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-5 Google AI

Google drops language from its AI Principles that said it would not pursue applications “likely to cause overall harm”, including weapons and surveillance (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-5 Google AI

An analysis of FEC filings shows Elon Musk spent $288M+ to elect Trump and other Republicans, the 2024 election's biggest donor; Musk's America PAC raised $263M (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-2-3 Trump U.S. Elon Musk Republican

Sources outline negotiations between the Biden administration and TikTok ahead of the ban, as company insiders refute claims that a blackout helped their case (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-25 Ban

Some TikTok users say the app has changed, expressing trepidation and paranoia over its complimentary mentions of Trump in its goodbye and welcome back messages (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-23 Trump

An interview with Pinterest CEO Bill Ready on why his company is backing US state laws to restrict cellphone use in classrooms (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-23 Interview

Sources: a deep philosophical rift over how DOGE should operate spurred Vivek Ramaswamy's exit, with Donald Trump's January 20 EO embodying Elon Musk's vision (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-22 Trump Elon Musk

Documents: Google gave Israel access to its latest AI tools from the early weeks of the Israel-Hamas war, directly assisting the Defense Ministry and the IDF (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-22 Israel Google AI

Sources: a deep philosophical rift over how DOGE should operate helped spur Vivek Ramaswamy's exit, with Donald Trump's Jan. 20 EO embodying Elon Musk's vision (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-22 Trump Elon Musk

Legal experts and lawmakers: Trump's EO halting the TikTok ban may not protect companies that host or distribute the app, as Trump cannot overturn Congress' law (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-21 Trump Ban

Trump signs an EO to end “federal censorship” of online platforms, and directs the AG to probe if the Biden admin engaged in censorship of Americans' views (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-21 Trump U.S.

US and European officials: evidence suggests recent damage to Baltic Sea subsea internet cables was likely caused by maritime accidents, not Russian sabotage (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-20 Russia Europe

TikTok bans in countries around the world have played out quite differently; Instagram Reels largely replaced TikTok in India, following TikTok's ban in 2020 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-19 India Instagram Ban

A whistleblower complaint claims Amazon paid $380M for licensing robot maker Covariant's tech and hiring its staff, and the deal merits antitrust scrutiny (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-19 Amazon Robot

Sources: Donald Trump is considering issuing an executive order once in office that would suspend enforcement of the TikTok sale-or-ban law for 60 to 90 days (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-16 Trump Ban

Donald Trump is considering issuing an executive order once in office that would suspend enforcement of the TikTok sale-or-ban law for 60 to 90 days (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-16 Trump Ban

An investigation finds 15 police departments across 12 US states have arrested suspects identified through facial recognition without having any other evidence (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-14 Facial Recognition

Meta's fact-checking overhaul is set to deepen a growing schism between how platforms do content moderation in the US and in stricter regions like Europe (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-9 Europe

How Huawei is flourishing despite harsh US sanctions, demonstrating the resilience of a company at the center of a worsening cold war between the US and China (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-5 China

Sources: Chinese government hackers breached the US Treasury Department's OFAC, which administers economic sanctions, and two other Treasury offices (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-2 China

Elon Musk got new support for his OpenAI lawsuit in filings last week, including from tech advocacy group Encode, backed by AI researchers like Geoffrey Hinton (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-2 AI Elon Musk

Waymo robotaxis, which are now ubiquitous in parts of CA, will often not stop for pedestrians using crosswalks there, unless a pedestrian is far into the road (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-12-31

Johns Hopkins and Stanford researchers say they trained robots with videos to perform surgical tasks with the skill of human doctors, even correcting mistakes (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-12-30 Robot

Sources detail IDF's Unit 8200, tasked with identifying human targets as candidates for elimination during the war in Gaza; one describes it as an “AI factory” (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-12-30 AI

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