the copyright office's approach right now is to reject wholly AI-generated work with no or little human input, but to permit AI-assisted works. the exact line where it crosses from AI-assisted to AI-generated is fuzzy
SCOTUS deciding not to hear this particular case doesn't really change much
image says AI-generated art can't be copyrighted
i've seen this kind of headline a few times and just want to note that it's...not correct. SCOTUS declined to hear an odd case that insisted that an AI had *created* a work of art. it wanted the copyright to go *to the AI.*
And here's another prediction market regulation bill: blakemoore.house.gov/media/press-...
Hacking internet-connected civilian security cameras for recon has become a standard operating procedure of modern warfare. First for Russia and Ukraine, now for Israel and Iran.
Your insecure internet-of-things surveillance system is now their targeting system.
www.wired.com/story/from-u...
Suit over the Khamenei death carveout claims Kalshi has "unclean hands and should not be permitted to invoke policies designed to prevent profiting from death to shield themselves from liability for a market that was, in substance, a trade on that very outcome"
www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...
Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic
how romantic
Great interview with Kalshi founder Tarek Mansour by @stevenlevy.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/big-in...
Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found.
After Trump officials cut food aid to Kenya, children starved to death in an American-made hunger crisis.
(Published Dec. 2025)
'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.
"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NEW: Since Jan 2023, ICE + CBP together have spent at least $515 million on products from Palantir, Microsoft, Amazon, & Google.
But where is the money actually going, & what specifically is it powering? Here, I break down everything we know about both of these things:
www.wired.com/story/how-bi...
SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.
This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.
a few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich
In non-WWIII news, the Supreme Court has denied cert in Thaler v. Perlmutter, leaving in place the DC Circuit’s decision denying copyright to wholly AI-generated works. This will leave for another day hard labor and industrial policy questions about hybrid works generated in part by AI.
NEW: Took a look at the Kalshi Khamenei shitshow.
The company lost over $2 million in its quest to appease pissed-off customers
www.wired.com/story/irania...
Folks seeking an easily digestible account of the 1979 Iranian revolution and its consequences in the U.S. could to worse than to pick up this brick.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Reagan...
Former Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is the leader.
“I love the CFTC, but they’re not set up to do this,” he tells WIRED, on prediction market regulations.
A new coalition against prediction market harms just debuted- and it’s led by conservatives: www.wired.com/story/former...
WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
This account includes an eyewitness.
Also: “At least 85 people, almost all of them young girls, have been killed in an air strike on a primary school in southern Iran, the Iranian judiciary said.”
im starting to think the woke mind virus wasnt actually the biggest threat to civilization
From our team in the Middle East: As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran this morning, millions of Iranians received mysterious push notifications saying that “help is on the way”, promising amnesty if they surrender.
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theonion.com/this-war-wil...
This did not age well LOL
Sam Altman tweet: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
My goodness.
i thought it was a TACO but it looks like... quite the opposite
yeah looks like it is indeed being designated a supply chain risk 😱 www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0...
