New California law will penalize influencers who don’t disclose political ads

The new legislation adds teeth to disclosure requirements for online influencers who are paid to post about politics.

Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts

Without buyouts, Flock would “almost certainly” need to lay off staff.

Trump suggests rebranding AI with a new name, says he’s also creating an AI Force

Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.

Even mid-sprint to a secret flight, the Navy’s tech chief has a pitch for investors

Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 million autonomous refueling deal, and the Navy’s updated wish list — from AI to quantum — for where founders should be building…

India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos

Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.

AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation

“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs,” a GovAI research scholar warns.

UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents

The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.

Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI’s data practices “theft” while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.

Even the King of England has his hesitations about AI

King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and UK government.

Apple will let EU apps use less alarming tracking consent screens

Apple is changing its App Tracking Transparency prompts in parts of Europe after competition regulators said the system favored Apple over third-party apps, giving developers more flexibility over how they ask users for tracking consent.