A landmark German court ruling has declared that Google's AI Overviews are legally Google's own words, not neutral third-party aggregations. This makes Google directly liable for false or misleading answers generated by the feature, removing the 'just a tool' defense. The ruling is among the first globally to apply traditional media liability frameworks to generative AI search results.
The article opens at UN talks in Geneva, where lethal autonomous systems were still largely discussed as future hypotheticals in 2017. It argues that military AI is no longer a distant “killer robot” scenario but an active governance challenge. The key questions now concern meaningful human control, accountability, and whether international rules can keep up with battlefield deployment.
This controversy stems from strict U.S. legal restrictions on aviation accident investigation data. Under federal law, the National Transportation Safety Board…
According to a report by Ars Technica, U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly canceled an official event that had been scheduled for the signing of an executive…
US President Donald Trump recently decided to delay signing a highly anticipated AI safety executive order. The core of the order was to establish a…
In this opinion piece published in Interconnects, prominent AI policy and technology critic Nathan Lambert delivers a sharp critique of the excessive panic…
In this column published in Interconnects, author Nathan Lambert cites the latest observations from policy expert Dean Ball on the high-profile "Anthropic v…
Hugging Face, the world's largest open-source AI community platform, has published an article titled "Open Responses," aimed at explaining to developers and…
In the latest issue of Import AI 440, author Jack Clark delves into three key structural trends facing AI development today: the Red Queen Effect, the…
Google DeepMind has announced a deepened collaboration with the UK AI Security Institute (UK AISI), with both parties committing to joint work on critical AI…
In March 2025, Hugging Face submitted a formal policy response to the White House's Request for Information (RFI) on the AI Action Plan. As the world's largest…
In this policy advocacy article, Hugging Face published a key position statement regarding the EU AI Act, which was at the time in trilogue negotiations…
Hugging Face submitted a formal response to the Request for Comment (RFC) on "AI Accountability" initiated by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National…
France's Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL — France's personal data protection authority) has announced that it has selected Hugging…