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To be clear, this is an order to depublish speech based on vague and unsupported “national security” concerns. We have seen this before. It wasn’t justified then and it’s not justified now. The fact that it’s a new technology does not change the analysis. www.anthropic.com/new…
As websites defend against an onslaught of AI bots, will web-crawling for public-interest purposes like journalism, cybersecurity & public health survive or end up as collateral damage? CDT's @bankston.bsky.social in collab with @publicknowledge.bsky.social maps the conflict: …
AI is changing how products behave and how they are built. Product lawyering has to change too. Here's my attempt to describe how. I'd love to hear if this rings true to folks who are still product counseling. www.bricoleur.org/2026/06/prod...
We didn't get the data portability we wanted for social networks in time to matter. Now the same fight's shaping up around AI. In my 1st guest post for @mbogen.bsky.social's AI policy newsletter Elicitation, I lay out what real AI portability would look like. elicitation.subst…
The integration of AI into traditional content pipelines is well underway: Netflix has used generative AI in *300* movies and shows just in 2026. More on AI's collision with Hollywood in this week's Converger: converger.kevinbankston.com/p/convergers...
It was an amazing set of speakers from @cdt.org @eff.org @thefireorg.bsky.social @itif.org @americans4ri.bsky.social, the Abundance Institute, plus an organizer of the #FreeFable cybersecurity letter, all demanding due process & coherent policy around AI model restrictions. cd…
My brother's a Hollywood creative exec. I dragged him to the 'AI on the Lot' conference to see the future. Then I interviewed him: “They keep talking about saving time and money. I live in Burbank, man—that ‘time and money’ are all my neighbors.” converger.kevinbankston.com/i/…
Confession time: I helped murder Punky Duck. Accidentally. Which I guess makes it duckslaughter? A couple weeks ago I went to the AI on the Lot conference in LA, and unexpectedly found myself at the center of Hollywood’s AI controversy of the week... converger.kevinbankston.co…
As the online backlash and resulting cancellation of Jorge Gutierrez's planned gen AI series with Amazon MGM showed, the studios and nets may be eager for AI but many in the Hollywood and animation communities are not. Will write more about it this week. variety.com/2026/tv/ne…
The AI vibe shift at Cannes that I just wrote about in Converger was in full effect at AI on the Lot this past week in LA as studios & networks like Fox, Paramount, MGM, & AMC were all there talking about integrating AI--though not without pushback. converger.kevinbankston.com…
Sadly ironic that today's the 55th anniversary of an overreaching White House going to the Supreme Court to try to block the Pentagon Papers' publication, and now with Anthropic's Fable we're seeing another historic prior restraint by an equally lawless administration. #FreeFable
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