Author Archives: Tessa Zavala

India has set new rules for taking down deepfakes on the internet. A 3 hour deadline applies to orders to take down deepfakes and a 2 hour deadline for urgent user complaints. The new rules will also require labeling of AI images and sounds. Tech Crunch | India orders social media platforms to take down […]

The US Conference of Mayors, in partnership with Google, announced an AI playbook for cities.

An AI chatbot used by NYC to assist New Yorkers was found to be instructing businesses to break the law. There is also a revenue shortfall that can be eased by eliminating the AI chatbot. The MarkUp | Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot we caught telling businesses to break the law

We’ve talked about a variety of ways companies are pursuing data centers in space. This past Friday, SpaceX filed plans with the FCC for a million-satellite data center network. Well that escalated quickly.  “Five years from now, my prediction is we will launch and be operating every year more AI in space than the cumulative total […]

We’ve been talking about Florida’s proposed AI bill of rights. It’s out of committee unanimously. The 23 page bill bans companion chatbots from communicating its children, requires chatbot disclosures, bans foreign owned AI, stops the sale of data, & prohibits AI images without express permission. Florida Phoenix | ‘I think about Jurassic Park’: DeSantis-backed AI […]

Remember how a bipartisan group of Texas legislators came forward opposing the Federal Excutive Order concerning federal AI preemption? Well, there is also a letter from NCSL, the Council on State Governments, the National League of Cities, Conference of Mayors, and the National Association of State CIOs. This letter states “We urge the President to […]

States are starting to form volunteer cyber civilian corps to protect themselves from cyber attacks. In Virginia this looks like HB 83 that allows the state’s technology agency to designate Virginians that will serve. The cyber corp would provide rapid-response assistance under the direction of the state technology agency upon request from a client, or […]

First came mobile phone bans in schools, and now in 2026 lawmakers are looking to prevent kids from being exposed to predatory AI. For Michigan this looks like a bill package that includes privacy protections SB 757, preventing tech companies from profiting from kids’ data SB758, protections from Chatbots SB 760 , & adding children […]

Florida’s proposed AI Bill of Rights includes limitations on data centers/AI site selection. The proposal seeks to “Protect Natural Florida— Prevent the construction, siting, or operation of a data center by foreign principals or on land classified as agricultural and/or lands under a greenbelt exemption, and require setbacks and vegetative buffers. Requires FDOT to complete […]

New benchmark called APEX-Agents shows that every AI lab is failing in the workplace. “Faced with queries from real professionals, even the best models struggled to get more than a quarter of the questions right. The vast majority of the time, the model came back with a wrong answer or no answer at all.” TechCrunch | Are […]