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We Are Not Talking About AI Memory Enough | TechPolicy.Press Surprisingly little attention is paid to what AI assistants remember about us and how we can shape their memory to control what they do, writes Ruchika Joshi.

AI assistants are becoming more powerful—but also more risky. In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, CDT’s Ruchika Joshi argues we need to treat AI memory not just as a feature, but as a governance tool that empowers users and reduces harm. Read the full piece: www.techpolicy.press...

President Trump's new AI action plan seeks to prevent states from creating legislation to protect people from AI harms.

In the absence of federal laws to defend our rights from AI companies, states must act.

Californians Deserve Better than Newsom’s ‘DOGE but Better’ | TechPolicy.Press California is following DOGE's dangerous path of weakened regulation, aided and abetted by state politicians, Sara Geoghegan writes.

In Washington, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has slashed federal regulation and left consumers in harm’s way. Now California is following this dangerous path of weakened regulation, aided and abetted by state politicians and regulators, Sara Geoghegan writes:

Mark Zuckerberg is Out of Ideas | TechPolicy.Press Dave Karpf reflects on Zuckerberg's mini-manifesto on “Personal Superintelligence" and what it says about the vision for the company.

Mark Zuckerberg accomplished a rare feat this week: he managed to make Sam Altman look like a deep and nuanced thinker by comparison.

My latest, for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, “Mark Zuckerberg is out of ideas.”

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July 2025 US Tech Policy Roundup | TechPolicy.Press A roundup of the most important US tech policy developments in the federal government, Congress, and beyond from Freedman Consulting and Tech Policy Press.

Catch up on what happened in US tech policy in July with a roundup from Freedman Consulting’s Rachel Lau and J.J. Tolentino and Tech Policy Press’s Ben Lennett, including coverage of the Trump Administration’s AI action plan, the State Department’s restructuring, and developments in Congress.

Mark Zuckerberg is Out of Ideas | TechPolicy.Press Dave Karpf reflects on Zuckerberg's mini-manifesto on “Personal Superintelligence" and what it says about the vision for the company.

Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg posted a new online mini-manifesto, titled “Personal Superintelligence,” setting the direction for Meta’s AI program. The one strong prediction we can make right now is that the future of AI will be a gigantic mess, with huge social costs, writes Dave Karpf.

The Trump AI Action Plan is Deregulation Framed as Innovation | TechPolicy.Press The administration's plan favors corporate interests over the public interest, write Public Citizen's J.B. Branch, Ilana Beller, and Tyson Slocum.

Trump's AI Action Plan will collectively tilt federal power toward industry self-regulation while diminishing the role of states, independent agencies, and public safeguards, write Public Citizen’s J.B. Branch, llana Beller, and Tyson Slocum. "It is a vision for a select few billionaires."

Governments Want to Ease AI Regulation for Innovation, But Do Citizens Agree? | TechPolicy.Press A 2025 survey across six countries finds that citizens are not in favor of deregulation and allowing AI innovation to progress unchecked.

🙋 "This raises an important question: Do citizens want regulation, and what do they expect from their governments? So, we asked them.” @techpolicypress.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social @nickmattis.bsky.social @laurensnaudts.bsky.social buff.ly/gGBh3T3

Why AI Researchers Need To Hear More From Workers and Unions | TechPolicy.Press Policymakers should study and pilot programs that foster partnerships between the labor sector and researchers, Shalin Jyotishi writes.

My latest in @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Policymakers should foster partnerships between #workers and #tech R&D leaders to identify productivity bottlenecks, overlooked implementation challenges, and solve industry problems.

Why & how: www.techpolicy.press/why-ai-resea...

'Kill Switch Shield' and the Recurring Erosion of Trust in US Tech | TechPolicy.Press Juan Ortiz Freuler examines how US sanctions reveal new risks to dependencies on US tech and prompt global shifts in internet governance and sovereignty.

If the Snowden revelations sparked concern that the US was leveraging global networks to pull data in for espionage, the current fear is that its control over the networks and today’s digital platforms means it can cut off its supposed adversaries altogether, writes Juan Ortiz Freuler.

Why AI Researchers Need To Hear More From Workers and Unions | TechPolicy.Press Policymakers should study and pilot programs that foster partnerships between the labor sector and researchers, Shalin Jyotishi writes.

Policymakers should study and pilot programs that foster partnerships between the labor sector and researchers, which can help technologists identify productivity bottlenecks, overlooked implementation challenges, and solve industry problems, Shalin Jyotishi writes.

The Overlooked Climate Risks of Artificial Intelligence | TechPolicy.Press Felippa Amanta and Charlie Wilson explore how AI contributes to climate risks beyond data centers.

Current concerns about AI’s adverse climate impacts are largely confined to operational energy and water use by data centers. While these impacts are important, they represent only a fraction of the ways in which AI can influence climate outcomes, write Felippa Amanta and Charlie Wilson.

Addressing GDPR’s Shortcomings in AI Training Data Transparency with the AI Act | TechPolicy.Press Ameneh Dehshiri explains how the EU AI Act can increase transparency in GPAI training data and potentially strengthen GDPR enforcement.

Recent developments suggest that the EU AI Act’s transparency regime, though limited, could become a powerful lever for enforcing existing data protection rules against AI companies that rely heavily on large-scale personal data scraping for training their models, writes Ameneh Dehshiri.

Do Proposed Measures in UK’s Mobile Ecosystems Investigation Challenge Market Power? | TechPolicy.Press How far is the CMA is willing to go, Tech Policy Press fellow Megan Kirkwood asks, in tackling massive concentration of power in the digital economy?

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has released its provisional findings that both Google and Apple should be designated under its new competition law, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Megan Kirkwood. How far do proposed remedies go in correcting the concentration of market power?

Trump AI Action Plan Raises Legal Questions, Potentially Violates Constitution | TechPolicy.Press ACLU senior policy counsel Cody Venzke says Congress should conduct oversight to ensure agencies stay within legal and constitutional boundaries.

Trump is attempting to forestall state AI regulation. Just like the moratorium that was stricken from the reconciliation package, this attempt threatens significant harm, raises legal questions, and potentially violates the Constitution, writes ACLU senior policy counsel Cody Venzke.

Trump's Order Against 'Woke AI' Will Create Real Harm | TechPolicy.Press Trump’s AI Action Plan reads like a nationalist innovation agenda, writes Camille Stewart Gloster.

Real neutrality isn’t about silencing facts. It’s about grounding systems in science, transparency, and integrity, then giving people the tools to make their own choices, writes Camille Stewart Gloster.

How X’s Community Notes Leave South Asians Disproportionately Exposed to Misinformation | TechPolicy.Press X’s Community Notes face delays and low coverage in Hindi, Urdu, and other South Asian languages, leaving misinformation unchecked, writes Kayla Bassett.

X’s Community Notes struggle in South Asian languages due to stalled notes and few reviewers, leaving misinformation unchecked. CSOH’s Kayla Bassett highlights these gaps and lessons for X and Meta.

Lethal Autonomous Weapons and the 'Right for Machine Hesitation' | TechPolicy.Press Virgílio Almeida, Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça, and Fernando Filgueiras say autonomous weapons represent a rupture in the logic of human rights.

Virgílio Almeida, Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça, and Fernando Filgueiras say autonomous weapons represent a rupture in the logic of human rights. As algorithms reshape war, they write, they also inaugurate new modes of resistance—grounded in a novel human right: the right to hesitation.

Chatbot Grok Doesn’t Glitch—It Reflects X | TechPolicy.Press Grok stands as an indictment of our current laissez-faire approach to AI governance, write Gabrielle D. Beacken and Dr. Matthias J. Becker.

Grok stands as an indictment of our current laissez-faire approach to AI governance, write Gabrielle D. Beacken and Dr. Matthias J. Becker. We urgently need independent oversight, enforceable ethical frameworks, and above all, accountability, they write.

Governments Want to Ease AI Regulation for Innovation, But Do Citizens Agree? | TechPolicy.Press A 2025 survey across six countries finds that citizens are not in favor of deregulation and allowing AI innovation to progress unchecked.

Do citizens want AI regulation, and what do they expect from their governments? Claes de Vreese, Natali Helberger, Sophie Morosely, Nicolas Mattis, and Laurens Naudts surveyed citizens in Brazil, Denmark, Japan, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the US to find out:

Why AI Researchers Need To Hear More From Workers and Unions | TechPolicy.Press Policymakers should study and pilot programs that foster partnerships between the labor sector and researchers, Shalin Jyotishi writes.

Policymakers should study and pilot programs that foster partnerships between the labor sector and researchers, which can help technologists identify productivity bottlenecks, overlooked implementation challenges, and solve industry problems, @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social writes.

🧠 Big tech is getting into your head.

Neurotech wearables can track your focus, fatigue—even emotions. But in the EU, there are still no clear rules.

In this article by @techpolicypress.bsky.social , Virginia Mahieu explains why that needs to change.

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Digital Equity Advocates Rally to Restore Funds, Sustain Their Work | TechPolicy.Press Experts say cancellation of Digital Equity Act funding threatens to entrench the digital divide just as AI ushers in a disruptive era of technological change.

“The U.S. does not have any coherent national digital skills strategy,” Open Technology Institute's @jessicadine.bsky.social told @justinhendrix.bsky.social at @techpolicypress.bsky.social. “We can’t become competitive in a world where people are not ready for #AI, and not connected.” 🌐

The Overlooked Climate Risks of Artificial Intelligence | TechPolicy.Press Felippa Amanta and Charlie Wilson explore how AI contributes to climate risks beyond data centers.

Current concerns about AI’s adverse climate impacts are largely confined to operational energy and water use by data centers. While these impacts are important, they represent only a fraction of the ways in which AI can influence climate outcomes, write Felippa Amanta and Charlie Wilson.

The Trump AI Action Plan is Deregulation Framed as Innovation | TechPolicy.Press The administration's plan favors corporate interests over the public interest, write Public Citizen's J.B. Branch, Ilana Beller, and Tyson Slocum.

Trump's AI Action Plan will collectively tilt federal power toward industry self-regulation while diminishing the role of states, independent agencies, and public safeguards, write Public Citizen’s J.B. Branch, llana Beller, and Tyson Slocum. "It is a vision for a select few billionaires."

Trump's Order Against 'Woke AI' Will Create Real Harm | TechPolicy.Press Trump’s AI Action Plan reads like a nationalist innovation agenda, writes Camille Stewart Gloster.

Real neutrality isn’t about silencing facts. It’s about grounding systems in science, transparency, and integrity, then giving people the tools to make their own choices, writes Camille Stewart Gloster.

Forget Berlin and Paris — Athens Is Leading Europe’s Digital Shift | TechPolicy.Press Once associated with red tape and institutional sclerosis, Greece has undergone a quiet but radical digital transformation, Konstantinos Komaitis writes.

Greece’s digitization efforts offer a valuable test case in how to turn EU digital ideals into something that actually works — technically, politically, and socially, Konstantinos Komaitis writes.

Trump's Order Against 'Woke AI' Will Create Real Harm | TechPolicy.Press Trump’s AI Action Plan reads like a nationalist innovation agenda, writes Camille Stewart Gloster.

What’s different in Trump's AI Action Plan is the deliberate removal of core scientific and technical foundations from federal AI policy, writes Camille Stewart Gloster.
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