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A report by the Neurorights Foundation found that 29 of 30 neurotechnology products offer no meaningful protections for your neurological data. States are stepping in to protect neurological data beyond conventional medical settings. These states include Colorado, California, and Montana. KFF Health News
KFF Health News | States Pass Privacy Laws To Protect Brain Data Collected by Devices
In 2024, crypto thefts totaled $1.87 billion. So far in 2025, a total of $2.17 billion of crypto has been stolen, and we’ re barely halfway through the year. Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis estimates that by the end of the year crypto thefts will top $5 billion. @cnbc
Texas, Utah, and Louisiana are the only 3 states that have passed App Store accountability bills. What do these bills do again? They require app stores like Apple’s and Google’s to identify when users are children and obtain parental consent before apps can be downloaded. There’s some lingering constitutional issues- surprise! legislatures passing bills that could be unconstitutional. Color me astonished.
Route Fifty | Louisiana becomes third state to pass app store accountability law
The Government AI Landscape Assessment, developed by the civic tech nonprofit Code for America, measured states’ readiness in adopting AI based on three core areas: Leadership and Governance, AI Capacity Building and Technical Infrastructure & Capabilities. 3 states are ready: PA, NJ & UT. TX is ranked established along with CA and NY.
City & State Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania is a Top 3 state for government AI readiness
Denmark is allowing the Danish to copyright their identity, face, voice, image to protect it from AI use. @culturiety_
We are entering a new phase of AI— AI backlash. Duolingo dropped humans as language teachers, and Duolingo is feeling the Ai backlash. @wired says it’s a growing reaction by Americans that AI replacing humans isn’t acceptable. Compound this with AI errors, public statements of AI antisemitism, environmental impact of AI, and recent studies pointing to the impact of AI on brain functioning by MIT researchers. @time
Conservative challenges to the Universal Service Fund lost 6:3 at the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supremes upheld the USF by finding that lawmakers gave the FCC sufficient flexibility to implement USF and raise the money it feels it needs through USAC, and the FCC has retained its decision-making authority by only taking nonbinding advice from the nonprofit.
The USF provides funds for broadband access.
Route Fifty | Major broadband subsidy survives Supreme Court challenge
Virginia does not have statewide data center regulations, so local governments are stepping in to regulate. It’s weird, right? Virginia has 1/3 of the world’s data centers and its’s a free for all. Virginia Legislature passed HB 1601 (2025 | VA) to regulate dalta centers and the bill was vetoed by the Governor. The veto message said local governments are best suited to determine data center regulations. So local governments are stepping in to create data center solutions that meet local needs.
R Street Institute is warning of the cyber risk from agentic AI. This is the AI agent who helps you navigate a government service, a company, etc… layers of agentic service are vulnerable to cyber attack including the agent’s perception layer, data poisoning, the AI agent’s reasoning module, its action module, & memory module.
Bonjour to American Innovators Network the new kid on the block lobbying on state AI regulations. The American Innovators Network is a coalition of early-stage artificial intelligence startups and venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz.
City & State NY | ‘Little tech’ lobby starts campaign against AI regulation bills