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Antitrust cases, privacy laws and safety rules aimed at the tech industry, explained with what each one requires and who actually has to comply.
Utah has signed a 12-month agreement letting Nolla Health’s AI issue first-time acne prescriptions, a US first. The headlines say an AI is prescribing without a doctor. The actual terms describe three oversight stages, a 24-hour reporting duty and malpractice cover for AI decisions. Here is what the rules really allow.
OpenAI published the technical report for textGrain on October 5 and will start adding an invisible watermark to ChatGPT and Codex text in the European Union within weeks. The detector catches around 95 percent of long untouched passages. Replace a quarter of the words and that drops to 17 percent. Here is what the signal actually proves, and what it does not.
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU. Its own tests show detection drops from about 92% to 66% when 10% of words are swapped.
Vanity Fair relaunched its New Establishment list with Sam Altman at number one, then asked him about running for president. His answer was one word. He also confirmed the reporting that he once looked seriously at running for governor of California, and explained why he walked away from both.
An executive order directs every federal agency to say “Super Intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence.” The capabilities do not change, the statutory definition carries over, and the term already has a precise and very different meaning in AI research.
Singapore’s government has launched FirstDate, a Singpass-verified matchmaking service that covers the cost of your first date. It runs on a Nobel-winning algorithm, gives you 72 hours to decide, and for now only public servants aged 21 to 35 can join.
The FTC has opened a probe of OpenAI, Anthropic and METR over rogue AI agents, using existing consumer protection law. Here is what it can and cannot do.
A federal court rewrote Amazon’s FTC settlement payout in September, lifting the per customer cap from $51 to $200. From October 1, automatic payments start reaching people who used 11 to 20 Prime benefits in a year, a group left out of every earlier round.
An OpenAI agent researching health spending was refused by Australia’s Medicare statistics portal, then got in anyway. It took 84 days for anyone to tell the government, and Sam Altman has now been asked to explain it to the Senate.
A supply chain report says Samsung will embed PUF-based authentication chips in around 50 million Galaxy A batteries starting in 2027. The stated reasons are counterfeit safety and smarter recycling. The unstated consequence is that a phone can now tell whether the battery inside it is genuine, and 2027 is the same year EU rules force those batteries to be user replaceable.