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Germany’s Federal Chancellery building on July 19, 2025 (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto) 

What Germany's AI Security Institute Could Learn From Other Countries

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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

A Labor Day Prescription for Preserving Fair Employment in the Digital Age

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Shirley Frame

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Ashley Faler

Members of California's legal team leave court after a settlement was reached in a multi-state lawsuit accusing Meta of causing harm to children on social media outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and US Courthouse on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

August 2026 US Tech Policy Roundup

Danny Tobey

Ashley Carr

Michael Atleson

The Colorado State Capitol is framed by buildings along Sherman Street Friday, June 27, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

What 12 State ‘Companion Bot’ Laws Demand of AI Providers

Natalie Welfens

Josefine Flesch

Bernard Quante

A tic-tac-toe board with human faces as digital blocks, symbolizing how AI works on pre-existing, biased online data for information processing and decision-making.

Amritha R Warrier & AI4Media / Better Images of AI / tic tac toe / CC-BY 4.0

Germany's Draft Law on AI in Migration Raises Rights and Bias Concerns

Isabel Hahn

Aaron Alva

A collage of circuit boards interwoven with aerial photographs of water treatment facilities, agricultural lands, industrial sites and mining machinery.

Privacy by Architecture Makes AI Compliance Work

Chris Mills Rodrigo

A yellow school bus is seen in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on July 28, 2026. (Photo by Marcin Golba/NurPhoto)

In the US, Caution Rules on AI Ahead of K-12 School Year

A young child holds up a smart phone in front of their face using both hands.

This Week's Meta Settlement Will Reverberate Across the World for Years

This image is a collage with a colourful Japanese vintage landscape showing a mountain, hills, flowers and other plants and a small stream. There are 3 large black data servers placed in the bottom half of the image, with a cloud of black smoke emitting from them, partly obscuring the scenery.

Deborah Lupton, "Servers in a Landscape" / 

'Technology Freedom Cooperative' To Build Infrastructure for Human Rights and Justice Groups

Darryl Slabe

A massive sculpture of Icarus lies in front of the Concordia Temple in the Valley of Temples in Agrigento, Sicily, on January 5, 2019. Shutterstock

A massive sculpture of Icarus lies in front of the Concordia Temple in the Valley of Temples in Agrigento, Sicily, on January 5, 2019. 

Make AI Companies Criminally Liable for Preventable Harm

Kevin Frazier

Three human silhouettes are depicted mid-stride, each comprising of a collage of hardware used to develop AI including circuit boards and CPU chips. In the background there is a black and grey gradient with smoke. Beneath the runners from the left, there are two rectangle panels which run across the image, one is red and the other is blue. 

To Avoid a 'Tokenocracy,' Ensure Popular Access to AI Systems

Sameer Hinduja

A child stands near a games stall. (Photo by Maxim Konankov/NurPhoto via AP) 

(Photo by Maxim Konankov/NurPhoto via AP)

Banning AI Toys for Four Years Won't Make Kids Safer

Tim Bernard

A yard sign expressing opposition to the construction of a data center is seen outside of a home in Mifflinville, Pa. on July 3, 2026. (Photo by Paul Weaver/Sipa USA via AP Images)

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