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[nationalnow @nationalnow]

Dear EPA,
Abortion pills are not poisoning our water.

Signed,
The USA

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

A recent M.I.T. report warns that A.I. is triggering “cognitive surrender" as students rely on it instead of learning to think, analyze and write. https://t.co/QlbPVUuWJV

[Lina Khan @linamkhan]

Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point @FTC emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.

As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://t.co/jJ5cS3Pin3).

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.

4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my @FTC tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

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5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.

[nationalnow @nationalnow]

Good #news! The Supreme Court has rejected the GOP's attempt to gain a congressional seat for Missouri in the 2026 midterm election. #scotus

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Below is exhibit number 739 for why we need to pass the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Bill asap.

[Evan Hubinger @EvanHub]

Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Plans to supply ICE officers with special gloves that can deliver electric shocks have alarmed experts. A 43-year-old man died after allegedly being shocked 40 times by officers with a combination of the gloves and a Taser in a county jail in Kentucky. https://t.co/3zD1icpPQk

[nationalnow @nationalnow]

#Trump does not get to dictate how elections are run in any state. Today’s #SCOTUS decision did not rule on his executive order restricting mail-in voting or mean those restrictions will take effect. The fight continues —and NOW will keep defending every voter’s right to vote.

[SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire]

🚨 In an apparent 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court paused a federal judge's order that blocked key parts of President Trump’s election executive order. A separate injunction still blocks the new USPS mail-ballot rules.

[Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro]

Meta approved and profited from ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found dozens more that were still live.

Insane story from Matt Burgess:

https://t.co/MZWbDHDbZZ

[Allyson Kapin @WomenWhoTech]

The Deepfake Threat Facing Women Entrepreneurs - my latest article over on Forbes. https://t.co/C2cfETP0p4

[nationalnow @nationalnow]

Women in the U.S. #Navy are reporting that they are running out of menstrual hygiene products. But #Hegseth was able to spend $6.9 million on lobster tail and $15 million on ribeye in a month to avoid a smaller Pentagon budget next year.

[RAD Campaign @RadCampaign]

🔹 73% are concerned about AI spreading election #disinformation ahead of the #2026midterms.
🔹 81% support requiring disclosure of #AI-generated #political content or prohibiting its use on official government accounts.

[RAD Campaign @RadCampaign]

New national #poll shows Americans are fed up with platforms allowing #AI to be used to sexualize children & women.
🔹 71% are concerned about AI-generated sexual deepfakes targeting children.
🔹 67% are concerned about AI sexual images of women. https://t.co/7g44nUcKCE

[SVPA @SVPAOfficial]

AI may be part of the future but not unregulated.

[RAD Campaign @RadCampaign]

Excited to see that @bradybuzz is a finalist for the Anthem Awards (part of the @TheWebbyAwards family) for the Gun Store Transparency Project website we designed and developed. Vote for them for the Anthem Community Voice Award! https://t.co/oYTmYCvQ8W #AnthemAwards

[RAD Campaign @RadCampaign]

This #NursesMonth, we're celebrating with @nynurses, who fight to protect nurses’ rights and drive collective action.

We recently redesigned their site to ensure they had a dynamic web presence to match their mission. See the amazing work they're doing: https://t.co/uWnOztI2Ln

[Allyson Kapin @WomenWhoTech]

A quarter (24%) of respondents have even stopped shopping at their favorite stores because of their politics (Black: 35%, gen Z: 32%, Democratic: 31%).