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Merici Vinton from the Center for American Progress & Lynn Overmann from Georgetown's Beeck Center extract five principles from NYC's new Public Interest Technology Crew that they argue should be standard practice for digital capacity initiatives everywhere.

Cities and States Can Replicate NYC’s Ambitious Public Interest Tech CrewMerici Vinton and Lynn Overmann extract five principles they say should become the standard operating procedure for digital capacity initiatives everywhere.buff.ly

Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian says the real question for builders isn't which AI model they are using—it's whether they could leave for a different one. The door's still open to choose a different path—for now.

Is Open-Source AI Really the Dangerous Path?The real question for builders right now isn’t which model you’re using. Rather, it's whether you could leave for a different one, writes Raffi Krikorian.buff.ly

A network of Telegram "local news" channels has no newsroom behind it. Democracy Reporting International’s Ognjen Karadzic & Daniela Alvarado Rincón trace how it grew across 19 languages undetected—and argue the EU should reconsider its light-touch approach to Telegram.

What a Growing Telegram Disinformation Network Reveals About the DSAOgnjen Karadzic and Daniela Alvarado Rincón analyze their research on a Telegram disinformation network and what it means for the EU's Digital Services Act.buff.ly

Cristina Caffarra argues Europe's "digital sovereignty" push should stick to a narrow plan—buy, fund, build across the full stack—rather than roll in all directions pursuing various goals grafted on to the concept.

The ‘Sovereignty’ Narratives That Don’t Help EuropeEurope has the talent, the money and the capability to rise, writes Cristina Caffarra.buff.ly

Drawing on a new report, Princeton CITP’s Hilke Schellmann & Mihir Kshirsagar see two futures: one where we lose confidence in facts and settle into rumor, another where trusted producers hold the line. Which wins depends on whether newsmakers and technologists actually talk to each other, they say.

What It Now Takes to Establish a FactHilke Schellmann & Mihir Kshirsagar from Princeton CITP on findings from a convening on information integrity, authentication and verification in the age of AI.buff.ly

The hype says Chinese open-source AI is catching up. JJ Jasser's reply: Kimi K3 is not open-source. It's "open-washing"—borrowing openness's credibility while withholding the transparency that justifies it.

‘Open-Washing’ Is Everywhere in AI. Four Criteria Cut Through It"Open-source" is not a marketing register. It is a standard with specific criteria that must be met to earn the label, writes JJ Jasser.buff.ly

A ‘golden age’ for whom? Cole Donovan argues that White House Office of Science and Technology Policy director Michael Kratsios' new report on the future of American science is cover for reallocating funding to the administration's friends—the big AI firms and hyperscalers.

OSTP Vision for Science is a ‘Golden Age’ for Corporations"Science: A New Golden Age" tries to reframe the conversation away from the ongoing destruction of American science, writes Cole Donovan.buff.ly

Karen Rebelo reports that incidents of abuse tied to Meta's AI smart glasses are cropping up in India, where angry Instagram users have begun calling the wearable tech "pervert glasses."

An Indian Trans Person’s Harrowing Encounter Fuels Backlash Against Meta AI ‘Pervert Glasses’Karen Rebelo reports on incidents of abuse caused by use of Meta's wearable tech.buff.ly

Google didn't just add AI to Google Earth—it briefly turned one of the world's most trusted sources of evidence into a generator of plausible fakes. shirin anlen & Sam Gregory from WITNESS on a foreseeable fiasco, and why tech firms must consult civil society experts before launch, not after.

Google Earth AI Fiasco Underscores Why Tech Firms Must Listen to Outside ExpertsIt's just one more parable in a long line of product releases by AI firms with potentially dangerous consequences, write shirin anlen and Sam Gregory.www.techpolicy.press

AI reached local governments before policy did. Pitt Cyber’s Elise Silva and Beth Schwanke and Local Government Academy’s Joy Ruff warn that if adoption keeps outpacing governance, the potential costs—compromised data, biased outputs, eroded trust—land on governments least equipped to absorb them.

AI Reached Local Governments Before Policy DidSmall jurisdictions get the least attention in AI policy and governance. That needs to change, say Elise Silva, Beth Schwanke and Joy Ruff.buff.ly

France became the first EU country to restrict children's access to social media by law. Interface's Jessica Galissaire on whether Europe will learn from the French experience, or whether the political appeal of a ban will prevail.

What France’s Under-15 Social Media Ban Means for EuropeJessica Galissaire analyzes France's under-15 social media law, explaining why enforcement is uncertain and how it could shape EU child safety policy.buff.ly

For the first time, a brain implant has been approved for routine clinical use outside a trial. Ebani Dhawan on what the approval process did not cover and why that matters.

China’s First Commercial Brain Implant Shows Why Neurotechnology Needs GovernanceThe first commercially approved brain-computer interface shows why neurotechnology needs governance beyond regulatory approval, writes Ebani Dhawan.buff.ly

Merici Vinton from the Center for American Progress & Lynn Overmann from Georgetown's Beeck Center extract five principles from NYC's new Public Interest Technology Crew that they argue should be standard practice for digital capacity initiatives everywhere.

Cities and States Can Replicate NYC’s Ambitious Public Interest Tech CrewMerici Vinton and Lynn Overmann extract five principles they say should become the standard operating procedure for digital capacity initiatives everywhere.buff.ly

Informed by his research on Venezuela, political scientist Philipp Lutscher writes that DDoS attacks on news organizations censor primarily through friction: they raise the cost of accessing and distributing information for both readers and journalists.

How Cyberattacks Became a Censorship ToolThe internet made it easier to evade traditional censorship, but Philipp Lutscher writes that cyberattacks are a cheap and deniable authoritarian countermove.buff.ly

Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian says the real question for builders isn't which AI model they are using—it's whether they could leave for a different one. The door's still open to choose a different path—for now.

Is Open-Source AI Really the Dangerous Path?The real question for builders right now isn’t which model you’re using. Rather, it's whether you could leave for a different one, writes Raffi Krikorian.www.techpolicy.press

Public Citizen's J.B. Branch makes the case that the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident was "a foreseeable governance failure rooted in private decision-making"—and that voluntary corporate risk management is not enough. Congress must investigate, he says.

The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident Demands Urgent Congressional OversightThe incident should be a turning point in the seriousness with which Congress addresses AI governance, argues Public Citizen's J.B. Branch.buff.ly

A network of Telegram "local news" channels has no newsroom behind it. Democracy Reporting International’s Ognjen Karadzic & Daniela Alvarado Rincón trace how it grew across 19 languages undetected—and argue the EU should reconsider its light-touch approach to Telegram.

What a Growing Telegram Disinformation Network Reveals About the DSAOgnjen Karadzic and Daniela Alvarado Rincón analyze their research on a Telegram disinformation network and what it means for the EU's Digital Services Act.buff.ly

Cristina Caffarra argues Europe's "digital sovereignty" push should stick to a narrow plan—buy, fund, build across the full stack—rather than roll in all directions pursuing various goals grafted on to the concept.

The ‘Sovereignty’ Narratives That Don’t Help EuropeEurope has the talent, the money and the capability to rise, writes Cristina Caffarra.www.techpolicy.press

Drawing on a new report, Princeton CITP’s Hilke Schellmann & Mihir Kshirsagar see two futures: one where we lose confidence in facts and settle into rumor, another where trusted producers hold the line. Which wins depends on whether newsmakers and technologists actually talk to each other, they say.

What It Now Takes to Establish a FactHilke Schellmann & Mihir Kshirsagar from Princeton CITP on findings from a convening on information integrity, authentication and verification in the age of AI.buff.ly

Raquel Vazquez Llorente, Rafiya Javed & Vinodkumar Prabhakaran of Google examined whether human rights law can serve as an alignment target for agentic AI systems, embedded during training rather than bolted on after deployment. They discuss the results of their experiment.

Can AI Agents Be Aligned with Human Rights?Raquel Vazquez, Rafiya Javed and Vinodkumar Prabhakaran from Google explore using human rights as an alignment target for agentic systems.buff.ly