Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is pushing UK regulator to unbundle Google’s search and AI crawlers

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is pushing UK regulator to unbundle Google’s search and AI crawlers

After earlier this year launching a marketplace that allows websites to charge AI bots for scraping their content, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare is pushing for increased regulation in the AI sector. The company’s chief executive Matthew Prince says he’s in London to speak with the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), where he’s proposing stricter…

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Should AI do everything? OpenAI thinks so

Should AI do everything? OpenAI thinks so

Silicon Valley’s rule? It’s not cool to be cautious. As OpenAI removes guardrails and VCs criticize companies like Anthropic for supporting AI safety regulations, it’s becoming clearer who the industry thinks should shape AI development.  On this episode of Equity, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Max Zeff discuss how the line between innovation and responsibility…

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EFF, unions sue Trump administration over alleged mass social media surveillance of legal residents

EFF, unions sue Trump administration over alleged mass social media surveillance of legal residents

Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Trump administration over the government’s alleged social media monitoring of people who are lawfully living in the United States. The suit contends that the government is using AI and other methods to watch the social media posts of virtually every…

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