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The US State Department restarts student visa interviews and requires all applicants to make their social media accounts public for vetting by US embassies (www.washingtonpost.com)
10 days ago

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (www.washingtonpost.com)
17 days ago AI 4Q

Sources: before installing Starlink at the White House in February, DOGE ignored security concerns that the service bypasses traditional WH security controls (www.washingtonpost.com)
21 days ago

A comparison of GPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Llama 4, and Copilot: Claude won overall, having the most consistent answers and no hallucinations (www.washingtonpost.com)
24 days ago

ChatGPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Llama 4, and Copilot comparison: Claude was the best overall with the highest consistency and no hallucinations (www.washingtonpost.com)
24 days ago

Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x+ the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term (www.washingtonpost.com)
25 days ago Trump

Researchers say tactics used to make AI more engaging, like making them more agreeable, can make chatbots reinforce harmful ideas, like encouraging drug use (www.washingtonpost.com)
27 days ago AI chatbot

Sources: the White House is finalizing EOs on drones that could end Chinese drone sales in the US, update federal rules on where drones can be flown, and more (www.washingtonpost.com)
29 days ago China Drone EOS

Chainalysis: the US government's top 20 crypto holdings are worth ~$20.9B as of May 28, including $20.4B in bitcoin, primarily derived from its seized crypto (www.washingtonpost.com)
30 days ago Bitcoin

People are using ChatGPT for unsparing assessments of their looks, with many also asking the chatbot to create plans to “glow up” their appearance (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-27 chatbot

Grok's tendency to repeat debunked claims raises doubts about Elon Musk's goal of making it a reliable source of information in high-stakes areas like medicine (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-25 Elon Musk

Experts say some Trump officials' plans to amp up cyberattacks against China would risk retaliation the US is increasingly unprepared for amid budget cuts (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-24 Trump China Budget

State lawmakers and AGs from both parties, Democrats, consumer advocates, and others oppose GOP's push to ban state AI regulations for the next 10 years (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-23 AI Ban Democrat Republican

Investigation: for two years, New Orleans police secretly scanned city streets using 200+ facial recognition cameras, seemingly violating a 2022 city ordinance (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-22 Facial Recognition

Investigation: New Orleans police secretly relied on facial recognition tech to scan city streets for two years, in apparent defiance of a 2022 city ordinance (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-20 Facial Recognition

Big Tech companies are firing staff who organize protests and rejecting petitions, even as a poor job market discourages worker activism, once ubiquitous in SV (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-17 Job Market

Senate hearing: Sam Altman says that requiring government approval to release AI would be “disastrous” for the US' lead in AI, a reversal from his 2023 comments (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-9 AI Senate

Analysis: ~67,000 new or small-time crypto investors bought the $TRUMP memecoin but 80% of them bought near the coin's peak and saw their holdings nosedive (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-9 Trump

Sources: DOGE plans to build a centralized database with troves of personal information about millions of US residents, sometimes bypassing security protocols (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-8 Database

Internal messages show how the US State Department, in conjunction with trade talks, pushed nations facing tariffs to clear regulatory hurdles for Starlink (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-8

Microsoft shut down Skype on May 5, capping a remarkable 21-year run for a software that for many embodied the open internet and hit 300M+ users in its heyday (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-6 Microsoft Skype

Meta AI brings more privacy risks than ChatGPT and Gemini, building a Memory file including the user's sensitive personal info, like fertility and payday loans (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-6 AI

Meta AI goes beyond ChatGPT and Gemini regarding privacy concerns, building a detailed Memory file that includes sensitive personal information about the user (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-5 AI

The US House passes the Take It Down Act to criminalize posting nonconsensual sexual images of others, including deepfakes, and require platforms to remove them (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-29

How AI tools like Autistic Translator and Goblin Tools are helping those with autism and other neurodiverse people understand social situations (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-28 AI

Sources: China has quietly exempted from tariffs at least eight classifications of US-made microchips, as it seeks to exempt “irreplaceable” goods (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-26 China

Meta's Oversight Board rules that two posts disparaging trans women aren't hate speech, in the first major test since Meta weakened its policies in January (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-24

A draft executive order sent to US agencies shows the Trump administration is considering issuing an order to create a policy integrating AI into K-12 education (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-22 Trump AI Education

The US v. Google remedies trial opens with the DOJ arguing that Google should be forced to divest Chrome, and Google calling the proposed remedies “extreme” (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-22 Google Chrome

Sources: Tim Cook spoke to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick last week about how tariffs could affect iPhone prices, before Trump exempted Apple products (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-4-18 Trump iPhone Apple Tim Cook

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