My assemblymember is the author of the bill and refuses to do townhalls or actually take calls from his own constituents on this.
REGULATION
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AI Companies and Content Creators: New Economic Models Debate
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Dries Buytaert calls for a new economic model between AI companies and content creators. Is his optimism about AI companies wanting to collaborate too generous? Is Cloudflare’s blocking approach the right idea? What’s your take? https://
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Perplexity AI Limitations: Privacy Concerns and Access Restrictions
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First, the caveats: – It's still early, and struggles with longer workflows
– Most data is retained by Perplexity (privacy concern)
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AI Labs Patent Strategy and Competitive Dynamics
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The lack of an aggressive patent strategy among the AI labs is surprising to me, though it is accelerating AI growth. Patents in software are hard, but the stakes are high OpenAI pledged to only use their patents defensively, so is it all mutually assured destruction among labs?
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Local Privacy and Security Remains the Primary Focus
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Nothing, it's still focused on local privacy and security.
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Model Controllability: Essential for Safe AI Deployment
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For someone wanting to deploy a model, what they really need to know is how controllable it is, so that they can make it behave in the way they require.
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Stanford HAI Director Discusses AI Competition and U.S. Regulation
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@StanfordHAI Executive Director @russellwald opened @Reuters Momentum AI San Jose 2025, joining Reuter’s @JLDastin to discuss the current state of AI, big-dollar competition for talent, the U.S. approach to regulation, and more. #ReutersMomentum
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Grok Goes Federal: AI Enters U.S. Government Infrastructure
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Big move! Grok just went federal.
Now working with the DoD and listed on the GSA schedule, making it easier for any U.S. government agency to tap into frontier AI. This is a big step for AI + national infrastructure.
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DoD Awards $200M Contracts to Four AI Companies
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in case you’re curious about all the govt/AI news today, the DoD awarded the same contract (each w $200m ceiling) to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI
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Transparency Requirements for AI Model Attribution at Scale
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If you're that scale I don't think it's unreasonable to add a note saying that your product uses the model?