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IL House Passes ‘Junk Fee’ Bill The Illinois House passed a bill ( HB 228 ) that would amend the state’s Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act to prohibit businesses from...
Anthropic Not Releasing New AI Model to Public The artificial intelligence company Anthropic—recently in the headlines for demanding that the Pentagon agree to certain limitations on the use of...
CT Lawmakers Target AI in Employment A bill (SB 435) before Connecticut’s legislature would require employers to disclose to job applicants when they are communicating with artificial intelligence...
On March 11, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) signed HB 2303 . The law, which takes effect June 11, bars employers from requesting, requiring or coercing workers or job applicants to accept a subcutaneous...
ND Regulators Approve Bank-to-Bank Stablecoin Use North Dakota’s Industrial Commission approved the use of the state bank’s planned stablecoin, the Roughrider Coin, for bank-to-bank transactions...
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Tech industry groups including the Business Software Alliance, the Consumer Technology Association and the Chamber of Progress are stepping up their lobbying efforts in opposition to a slew of California bills aimed at regulating artificial intelligence as lawmakers in the state return from their summer recess. The industry appears to be faring well this year, with only about 120 of the over 1,000 AI-related bills introduced having been enacted. (PLURIBUS NEWS)
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request from tech industry group NetChoice to temporarily block enforcement of a Mississippi law (HB 1126) requiring minors to obtain their parents’ consent before creating a social media account. Justice Brett Kavanaugh issued a brief unsigned order stating that while he concurred with the court’s denial of NetChoice’s application for interim relief because the group had not sufficiently demonstrated that the balance of harms and equities favors it at this time,” the group had in his view “demonstrated that it is likely to succeed on the merits—namely, that enforcement of the Mississippi law would likely violate its members’ First Amendment rights.” (SCOTUS BLOG)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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