MIT Technology Review
The FTC, America’s AI watchdog, is losing its bite
Most Americans encounter the Federal Trade Commission only if they’ve been scammed: It handles identity theft, fraud, and stolen data. During the Biden administration, the agency went after artificial intelligence companies for scamming customers with deceptive advertising or harming people by selling irresponsible technologies.
The world is moving closer to a new cold war fought with authoritarian tech (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 07/21/2025 - 13:23A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 07/21/2025 - 10:22AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 07/21/2025 - 10:21These four charts show where AI companies could go next in the US (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 07/17/2025 - 12:23Cybersecurity’s global alarm system is breaking down (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Fri, 07/11/2025 - 09:58This tool strips away anti-AI protections from digital art (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 07/10/2025 - 15:08Why the AI moratorium’s defeat may signal a new political era
The “Big, Beautiful Bill” that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4 was chock full of controversial policies—Medicaid work requirements, increased funding for ICE, and an end to tax credits for clean energy and vehicles, to name just a few. But one highly contested provision was missing. Just days earlier, during a late-night voting session, the Senate had killed the bill’s 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulation. The moratorium fight may have signaled a bigger political shift.