Monthly Archives: August 2026

This week Alabama Attorney General announced its investigation into Open AI concerning the company’s “inability or unwillingness to ensure the safety of its products.” How does it relate to state laws? Hello state consumer protection laws. Friendly reminder that state attorneys general will publicly announce the amount of funds they secure under consumer protection laws. […]

A court case in California is exploring a new issue that will make its way to legislatures: “whether prompts to a chatbot can be considered artistic expression?” In 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office said AI work can be copyrighted but would be considered on a case by case basis for authorship. @NPR

Anything you ask AI is discoverable in a lawsuit. Remember when lawyers were enamored in the treasure trove of information on social media? This is that on your amphetamine of choice. @washingtonpost

Texas’ Blockchain Council is now DIN- the Digital Infrastructure Network.

@Time reports we have data about the “harm” AI can cause. From 2022-2024, AI incidents rose 50% annually. Then 2025 happened. In 2025, incidents surpassed 2024 levels by October. Want to dig into the data? Check out “AI Incident Database, a crowd-sourced repository of media reports on AI mishaps.”

Remember when we talked about how kids figured out work around for age authentications. When kids can figure this out, coders can figure out how to remove AI labels. It took coders 4 hours to post AI label work arounds. @wired

11 Attorneys General are calling on Open AI to be more transparent in the AI on AI hacking incident(s). They state, “ “OpenAI’s inability or unwillingness to ensure the safety of its products poses an imminent risk of substantial harm to our States.”  The Attorneys General represent Iowa, Alabama,Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, […]

A Presidential Memorandum this week opens up surveillance tools to private companies with federal approval. In addition private companies will be allowed to make disruptive cyber attacks.

Tech Crunch kicks off an article on AI hacking with, “By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley’s AI labs have built the world’s best hackers in the form of AI agents. ” The story is an executive, who uses an AI agent, wanted a better time at the gym. His AI agent hacked the gym’s […]

Spotify will begin labeling AI music as AI persona and will cease including the music in recommendations. In lieu of relying on self-identifying AI music, Spotify is reviewing music and artists and will label AI music as such. The goal being to thwart AI generated slop. Tech Crunch