US President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order as (L-R) Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and White House artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto czar David Sacks look on in the Oval Office of the White House on December 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)


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Hanna Barakat & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN / Better Images of AI

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US President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order during the "Winning the AI Race" summit hosted by All‑In Podcast and Hill & Valley Forum at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on July 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

America Needs Better AI Ambitions

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Office of European Commission in Brussels. 

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Christopher Landau, current deputy secretary of state, speaks at a summit hosted by Turning Point USA in Phoenix, Arizona in 2021. (

Europe’s X Fine is Fueling GOP Angst Toward NATO

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November 2025 Tech Litigation Roundup

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Jamillah Knowles & Digit / Better Images of AI

Why Insurers May Unwittingly Become AI Safety Champions

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Michelle Rowland, then Minister for Communications, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese discuss a bill to establish a minimum age for social media in Australia on Nov. 8, 2024. (

Free Speech Standards and Social Media Age Restrictions in Australia and the US

A detailed digital collage inspired by the aesthetic of medieval manuscript illustrations, depicts a vibrant scene of construction workers building a structure. The traditional elements, such as figures in traditional Persian gowns, wooden ladders, ropes, and woven sacks, are interwoven with modern technological motifs like circuit boards, QR codes, and cloud icons. Bright, glowing, golden networks of interconnected nodes and symbols of digital technology overlay the scene, blending the past and present. On the left, Arabic calligraphy is imprinted onto the paper. The composition uses contrasting textures and colours to juxtapose and interweave the themes and eras.

Detail from "Who is AI Made Of," an artwork by Shady Sharify. 

AI Safety Requires Pluralism, Not a Single Moral Operating System

Saline, Michigan, December 1, 2025. Rural Michigan residents rally against the $7 billion Stargate data center planned on southeast Michigan farm land. Protesters say the data center is being fast tracked by DTE Energy, the large electric utility, and that it could raise residential electricity rates and endanger the water supply. (Photo by: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Entrance to the Berlaymont building, the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels. Justin Hendrix/Tech Policy Press

The headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels. Justin Hendrix/Tech Policy Press

What Europe’s Digital Markets Act Has Delivered So Far and What Comes Next

Addressing Cumulative Online Harms Through Human Rights Law

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A Pragmatic Win, Not a Structural Fix, in South Africa’s Deal with Big Tech

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Europe’s Tech Rules Are Driving a New US–China Divide

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UK Laws Do Not Provide Effective Protection From Chatbot Harms

Chinese President Xi Jinping participates in a bilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump in Busan, South Korea, on October 30. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

Chinese President Xi Jinping participates in a bilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump in Busan, South Korea, on October 30. (

Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK—March 31, 2025: Person with a sign at an event on International Trans Day of Visibility in Manhattan.

Age Verification Is Locking Trans People Out of the Internet

Indigenous groups protest the GOP30 summit in Belém, Brazil. (Xuthoria)

Indigenous groups protest the GOP30 summit in Belém, Brazil. (

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Cloud Services Face Scrutiny Under the Digital Markets Act

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