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🚨New paper alert!🚨 You can now read "The Right to an Explanation in Practice: Insights from Case Law for the GDPR and the AI Act" on SSRN, ahead of its publication in Law, Innovation, and Technology (October 2025). [This is a draft paper, it may contain (language) errors.]

"We need to reimagine property insurance as a climate adaptation technology; one that is governed by an ecosystem of public and private institutions, and meaningfully shapes decisions to deliver public value" medium.com/@wallisgreensl…

Seriously good opportunities in these residencies - please share widely!

🚨EPIC filed a complaint TODAY with the FTC calling on the Commission to investigate OpenAI 🧵 epic.org/wp-content/upl…

New: A leaked training presentation from a NY's largest hospital system shows how doctors are being encouraged to use AI for everything from writing emails to summarizing clinical evaluations to "diagnosing pancreatic cancer" and "parse" health records 404media.co/northwell-heal…

Y.I.K.E.S.

Apple researchers just showed that AI bots can’t think, and possibly never will latimes.com/business/story…

National/State/local bar association presidents have written an open letter aimed at warning colleagues against mounting frivolous election lawsuits: usnews.com/news/national-…

Reupping this story about the latest 764-related sentencing to flag some point: fed law enforcement has classified 764 as a "tier one" terrorism threat, has related cases in every FBI field office in the US, & is assigning roughly 10 related cases for investigation every week

In a new essay for Tech Policy Press, I trace the direction of tech policy in 10 years of Modi government, how its approach has evolved often with diminishing returns for digital rights. I weave, connect and highlight the big moves, battles and themes. techpolicy.press/10-years-of-mo…

AI can't worry about you; that's partly why it's an inadequate doctor, therapist, lawyer, teacher, assistant. #AIEthics jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

HFS

China launches AI that writes politically correct docs for bureaucrats go.theregister.com/feed/www.there…

"The automated comments in particular come across as tone deaf, since a huge reason #YouTube makes sense at all is the communication and relationship between audience and creator. I've had dozens of people say that they now second-guess every interaction with YouTubers" #ethics

Bribe. The word you’re looking for is bribe.

Don’t be like these companies. Revenue is a fact of life, even in open source, and we’re too far into all this to pretend otherwise.

The US State Department is to halt to nearly all current foreign assistance and pause new aid, says a leaked internal memo. The leaked notice follows President Trump's executive order for a 90-day pause in foreign development assistance. bbc.in/40LuzyW

This morning Uganda announced a new Ebola outbreak. The last time there was an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, the CDC worked with the WHO on helping end it. But now, the CDC can’t even talk to the WHO. I repeat, again and again, this is pure stupidity that will only hurt us.

Members of Congress buying stocks is one thing. Having a sitting government official making takeover bids is insanity & a collapse of the line between business and state cnbc.com/2025/02/14/ope…

ICE awarded, and promptly canceled, a $3.8 bln contract to build an immigrant tent detention camp on a Texas military base. The move came just days after Jeff Ernsthausen and Avi Asher-Schapiro and I profiled the company that won. The project is now being re-bid: propublica.org/article/ice-ca…