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A publishing house in Munich is running scams, according to Google's AI overview. The issue with the allegation: none of it was in any of the sources linked. A court in Germany has now ordered Google to answer for these apparent falsehoods. @ignaciocofone.bsky.social breaks do…

AI Overviews and the Limits of the Search Safe Harbor lawfaremedia.org

As AI's capabilities continue to develop at a breakneck speed, Eliška Andrš breaks down whether the world's first comprehensive AI legislation, the EU AI Act, regulates internal deployment and how the legislation could be enforced.

You Don't Have to Sell It to Be Bound by It: GPAI and the EU AI Act lawfaremedia.org

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This week's Seriously Risky Business looks at whether AI labs should be given liability exemptions, the difference in how Russian and Chinese cyberespionage actors are using AI, and more. Read the newsletter, by @tom.risky.biz.

Bring On the AI Lawsuits lawfaremedia.org

Some of the most consequential risks from frontier AI may emerge before a model ever reaches the public. Keshav Narayan examines how an existing financial-regulatory platform could provide a secure channel for states to share confidential frontier AI safety reports.

New York Could Share Frontier AI Safety Reports Nationwide Without New Legislation lawfaremedia.org

As the risks of AI grow, Cristian Trout, Rune Kvist, and Rajiv Dattani argue that a frontier AI mutual insurer could develop & enforce shared safety commitments and give members a direct stake in each other's safety practices, actively reducing risk.

Bootstrapping Frontier AI Governance by Mutualizing Risk lawfaremedia.org

Latin America has been at the forefront of innovative nuclear diplomacy since 1967 and may now apply that same strategy to AI governance. Marcel Anduiza explains the region's role in the governance of this emerging technology.

Latin America’s Long Game: Nuclear Disarmament in the Age of AI lawfaremedia.org

Recent state-level laws establishing reporting regimes have expanded the reach of government regulators over the AI industry, but the lack of a clear investigatory regime remains a glaring omission and limits the effectiveness of these laws, writes @claroche.bsky.social.

The Forensic Gap in AI Safety Laws lawfaremedia.org

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Why We Opted Not to Work at the AI Labs lawfaremedia.org

Despite the U.S.’s attempts to undercut its position, Huawei, China’s telecom giant, remains the world’s largest telecom equipment vendor. @chinmayisharma.bsky.social explains what the U.S. should do if it wants to avoid a similar result in the AI sphere.

Open-Weight Diplomacy: How China’s AI Models Are Rerunning the Digital Silk Road lawfaremedia.org

On Lawfare Daily, Daniel Byman was joined by @triciabacon.bsky.social and Antonia Juelich to discuss how different terrorist groups are using artificial intelligence and how governments are employing AI to fight them. youtu.be/4naCZZzE-4w?...

Lawfare Daily: How Terrorist Groups are Using Artificial Intelligence youtu.be

@petersalib.bsky.social joined @kevintfrazier.bsky.social to break down the postmortems produced by METR and Redwood Research and OpenAI on the lab’s failure to contain AI agents undergoing testing, which resulted in a hack of Hugging Face. youtu.be/zEFh39kNLiU?...

Lawfare Daily: The Legal and Policy Ramifications of the OpenAI-Hugging Face Postmortems youtu.be

Today's Lawfare Daily is the August 28 live where @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @klonick.bsky.social, @mollyroberts.bsky.social, @annabower.bsky.social, and @ericcolumbus.bsky.social discussed Anthropic's challenge to its supply chain risk designation, President Trump’s elections EO, and more.