In the News

• Trump vows retaliation against countries with digital rules targeting US tech
  8/26/25 – AP News
• Study says AI chatbots need to fix suicide response, as family sues over ChatGPT role in boy’s death
  8/26/25 – AP News
• A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
  8/26/25 – The New York Times
• Moscow court fines Google for failing to abide by Russian law
  8/26/25 – Reuters
• Google Could Get Broken Up This Week. Here’s What It Would Mean.
  8/26/25 – The New York Times
• Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.
  8/26/25 – The New York Times
• The US really is unlike other rich countries when it comes to job insecurity – and AI could make it even more ‘exceptional’
  8/26/25 – The Conversation
• DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says
  8/26/25 – The New York Times
• A day with the Revenge Porn Helpline: ‘You can sense the callers’ desperation’
  8/26/25 – The Guardian
• College students are bombarded by misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101 − here’s what happened
  8/26/25 – The Conversation
• Should We Believe the AI Doomsayers?
  8/26/25 – The Wall Street Journal
• Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
  8/26/25 – The Guardian
• Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images
  8/25/25 – BBC News
• Privacy at a cost: the dark web’s main browser helps pedophile networks flourish, experts say
  8/25/25 – The Guardian
• Teens Are Using Chatbots as Therapists. That’s Alarming.
  8/25/25 – The New York Times
• China-Linked Hackers Hit Southeast Asia Diplomats Google Says
  8/25/25 – Bloomberg
• Musk Sues Apple, OpenAI, Saying They Hurt Competition
  8/25/25 – Bloomberg
• AI is Booming. So Are Household Electricity Bills
  8/25/25 – Bloomberg
• Dutch online bank Bunq fined for failures in money laundering controls
  8/25/25 – Reuters
• Musk’s AI startup sues OpenAI and Apple over anticompetitive conduct
  8/25/25 – The Guardian
• Shopify Revives a ‘Hateful Content’ Ban Amid Sales of Racist Merchandise
  8/25/25 – Bloomberg
• Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline
  8/25/25 – AP News
• Competing battery technologies shape the EV industry
  8/25/25 – Reuters
• How Online Chats Are Leading to Imprisonment for Blasphemy
  8/24/25 – The New York Times
• We Are Tech Privacy Reporters. Our Music Habits Got Doxxed.
  8/24/25 – The New York Times