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Google rolls back an image generation tool in Google Earth to add “stronger guardrails” after concerns arose it can be used to create deepfake satellite imagery
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Google
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about a possible takeover last year, before directing Meta employees to build a prediction market app
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2026-7-1
Zuckerberg
SCOTUS finds that Trump's 2025 firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter without cause was lawful, placing independence of several agencies in doubt
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2026-6-30
Trump
Documents: Meta's planned prediction markets app will use Meta AI models to generate questions from trending topics, make recommendations, and resolve markets
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2026-6-25
AI
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state; the CFTC has sued Minnesota in response
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2026-5-20
CFTC
How opposition to data centers, over concerns like power demands, pollution, and water needs, has become a voting issue for many people in the 2026 US midterms
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2026-4-22
Bubblemaps analysis: an anonymous Polymarket trader netted $316,346 in profits by correctly betting on Biden's pardons for Hunter Biden, Liz Cheney, and others
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2026-4-16
Letter: ICE officials confirm they are using Graphite spyware to intercept encrypted messages, saying it is primarily used to target fentanyl traffickers
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2026-4-8
A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow
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2026-3-7
Kalshi says it has suspended an editor for MrBeast and a former GOP California gubernatorial candidate for insider trading, its first public enforcement action
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2026-2-26
Republican
California
Researchers say TikTok's server outage in late January disrupted all post categories, not just political content as users claimed, based on limited public data
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2026-2-5
TikTok US says it doesn't “have rules against sharing the name Epstein in direct messages” and is “investigating why some users are experiencing issues”
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2026-1-27
ICEBlock's developer sues the Trump administration in federal court for First Amendment violations after Apple removed its app following White House pressure
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2025-12-9
Trump
Apple
A new study of 6,554 children aged 9 to 10 found that social media users scored lower on reading, vocabulary, and memory tests two years later than non-users
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2025-10-14
A survey of 1,000 ninth through 12th grade US students finds that nearly one in five say they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with AI
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2025-10-9
AI
While facial recognition tech remains unregulated at the US federal level, 23 states have passed or expanded laws to restrict mass scraping of biometric data
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2025-8-29
Facial Recognition
“Deadbots”, AI avatars of the deceased, are used for advocacy and emotional connection, but their potential commercial use raises ethical and legal concerns
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2025-8-27
AI
A proposed class action lawsuit accuses Otter.ai of “deceptively and surreptitiously” recording private conversations to train its AI without user consent
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2025-8-16
AI
Survey: when it comes to using AI as a companion to seek advice, flirt, or share deep conversations, ~75% of US teens say they've used AI this way at least once
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2025-7-21
AI
Sources: the US DHS, in partnership with DOGE, has built the first-ever searchable national citizenship data system, pulling from SSA and immigration databases
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2025-6-30
Immigration
OpenAI says it disrupted 10 malicious operations in the past three months, including four that likely originated in China and targeted multiple countries
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2025-6-5
China
Internal docs show Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content
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2025-6-1
AI
Whistleblower: at NLRB, DOGE staff disabled monitoring tools, deleted logs, one worked on “NxGenBdoorExtract”; one DOGE account tried to log in via a Russian IP
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2025-4-16
Russia
Sources: after Jensen Huang went to Mar-a-Lago last week, the White House reversed course on Nvidia H20 export restrictions to China, in the works for months
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2025-4-10
China
Nvidia
Microsoft turns 50: A look back at everything from the Altair to the Zune
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2025-4-7
Microsoft
A US federal judge rejects OpenAI's request to dismiss the NYT's lawsuit, allowing the main copyright infringement claims to go forward while narrowing the suit
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2025-3-27
A look at the Internet Archive, which sees ~100TB of material uploaded daily and had cataloged ~73K US government website pages that the Trump admin expunged
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2025-3-24
Trump
Sources: some staffers at CISA were given deferred resignation offers and just hours to decide whether to accept them, extending broader cybersecurity fears
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2025-2-7
Sources: the Trump admin is in talks for Oracle and a group of US investors to take over TikTok's global operations, with ByteDance retaining a minority stake
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2025-1-26
Trump
Oracle
Trump signs an EO that pauses the TikTok ban for 75 days to give ByteDance more time to reach a deal and provides a liability shield to TikTok's providers
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2025-1-21
Trump
Ban
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