A History of Data from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

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Alex Stamos on Why the US Should Lift Its Fable and Mythos Export Ban

Late on Friday, June 12, Anthropic announced it had received a letter from the United States Department of Commerce notifying the company that the government had issued an export control directive forcing it to suspend all access to its AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any forei ...  Show more

Unpacking the Great American Artificial Intelligence Act of 2026

On June 4, Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) and Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) released a 269-page bipartisan discussion draft of a bill called the Great American Artificial Intelligence Act of 2026. On the same date, they published an opinion in Bloomberg Law calling for feedback on the dr ...  Show more

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