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The third in a series of landmark liability trials is opening this week in federal court in Oakland, California. In the first two trials, jurors found Instagram and YouTube liable for addicting and harming kids. What’s it all about? We have concise answers in clear, plain language.
A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties for violating the state’s consumer protection law more than 43 million times. The penalty order came in a case related to the misuse of Facebook data nearly a decade ago.
Two lawmakers debuted frontier AI model safety bills in Harrisburg yesterday—the first to be introduced after the OpenAI / Hugging Face attacks. They contain strong pre-deployment requirements that would strengthen standards set earlier this year in Illinois and California.
Lawmakers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania are moving forward on bills dealing with chatbots, liability, AI disclosure, and health insurance pre-authorizations.
Lawmakers passed bills on chatbot safety, education and children’s digital lives, medical authorization and mental health, consumer rights, and frontier model oversight. More states are expected to weigh in by year’s end.
Lawmakers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania are moving forward on bills dealing with chatbots, liability, AI disclosure, and health insurance pre-authorizations.