How precedent-setting is it? Santa came early for Meta. On Dec. 20, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California handed down a decisive legal win for the tech giant’s subsidiary,…
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How AI labs and public policies helped safeguard the 2024 elections—and what to learn in order to protect democracy from future threats. A Super Year of Elections and New Super Tools At…
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The question is no longer whether artificial general intelligence will arrive, but whether we’ll be ready when it does. Last week, on the last of its “12 Days of OpenAI,” OpenAI unveiled the…
During a Dec. 18 press conference in Mar-a-Lago, President-elect Donald Trump took an unexpected tack, suggesting the United States and China could “work together to solve all of the world’s problems.” With China hawks…
Rising AI demand is expanding global data centers, potentially threatening water reserves and sparking calls for greater transparency. Data centers are essential computational infrastructure, powering nearly all of today’s digital activities, especially…
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Terms of service are essentially public law for the internet, with no oversight. Contracts rule the digital world. Today’s terms of service dictate Americans’ speech rights, privacy rights, and even Fourth Amendment rights.…
To harmonize cyber regulations, researchers and the government must first understand disharmonies and their causes. If a large U.S. company suffers a data breach, losing a substantial amount of sensitive or personal…
Large language models cannot eliminate the need for human judgment in constitutional law. Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have improved at a dizzying pace, leading some judges, lawyers, and…
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare. The U.S. government and lawmakers are scrambling to deal with the ongoing compromise of U.S. telecommunications companies by a Chinese…
The U.S. has invited a conundrum for the Department of Justice upon itself. On Aug. 9, an ad hoc United Nations committee unanimously adopted draft language for a new cybercrime convention (the Draft Convention).…
