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UN Launches AI Panel and Dialogue, But Questions Linger Over Inclusion and Impact

US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, at a hearing titled "AI’ve Got a Plan: America’s AI Action Plan" on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.

US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, at a 

 titled "AI’ve Got a Plan: America’s AI Action Plan" on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.

US Senator Ted Cruz Proposes SANDBOX Act to Waive Federal Regulations for AI Developers

US Senator Marsha Blackburn holds up a Meta Quest virtual reality headset box while speaking at a US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on whistleblower allegations about Meta and child safety research.

US Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) at US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing, “Hidden Harms: Examining Whistleblower Allegations that Meta Buried Child Safety Research,” Sep. 9, 2025, Washington, DC. (

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How Big Tech’s 'Invisible Hand' Reaches Latin American Regulators

Flag of European Union on a microprocessor, CPU or GPU microchip on a motherboard. Symbolizing the EU recently adopted the AI Act.

A False Confidence in the EU AI Act: Epistemic Gaps and Bureaucratic Traps

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers the 2025 State of the Union address at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on September 10, 2025. Source: X

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers the 2025 State of the Union address at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on September 10, 2025. Source: 

State of the Union 2025: What’s Ahead for Tech in Europe

Laser weapons are seen during a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on September 3, 2025. (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)

China's Military Demonstrates Investments in Digital Firepower

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Digital Sovereignty Requires More Than Just European Tech

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Breaking Down the WhatsApp Whistleblower Lawsuit

WASHINGTON, DC — SEPTEMBER 4, 2025: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education in the East Room of the White House. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Reckless Race for AI Market Share Forces Dangerous Products on Millions — With Fatal Consequences

US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the White House AI Summit at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (Official White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the White House AI Summit at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (Official White House 

The AI Deregulation Agenda Has Helped Create an AI Bubble and May Hasten a Crash

WASHINGTON, DC—SEPTEMBER 3, 2025: Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on September 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing titled "European threats to American free speech and innovation." (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Washington and Brussels Vie for Control Over Big Tech

This image is a section of the Detroit Industry Murals by Diego Rivera, created between 1932 and 1933. Rivera, a renowned Mexican muralist, painted these panels inside the Detroit Institute of Arts. They are widely considered one of his greatest works and a landmark of 20th-century art.

The workers shown are laboring on automobile assembly lines, likely at the Ford Motor Company’s River Rouge Plant.

Rivera celebrated the dignity and effort of industrial labor, portraying the workers with strength and unity.

The style is Social Realism, characterized by its focus on working-class subjects and its detailed, lifelike forms.

Photograph of a detail of a 1933 Diego Rivera fresco at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Justin Hendrix/Tech Policy Press

Empowered Workers Are a Bulwark Against Illegal Monopoly

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Breaking Down the EU Antitrust Decision on Google Adtech

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The Silicon Illusion: Why AI Cannot Substitute for Scientific Understanding

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The image features a silver meat grinder. Going into the grinder at the top are various culturally symbolic, historical, and fun icons – such as emojis, old statutes, a computer, newspapers, an aeroplane. At the other end of the meat grinder, coming out is a sea of blue and grey icons representing chat bot responses like 'Let me know if this aligns with your vision' in a grey chat bot message symbol. 

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