California, X and Elon Musk

Elon Musk's X sues California over AI law targeting deepfakes, deceptive election content
Elon Musk's social media platform X is suing California over a new state law targeting deceptive, AI-generated election content, claiming that it violates First Amendment free speech protections.
X sues California over deceptive AI-made election content ban
Elon Musk’s X is taking the state of California to court over a new law that prevents the spread of AI-generated election misinformation. Bloomberg reports that X filed a lawsuit against AB 2655, also known as the Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024,
Elon Musk’s X sues California over law to restrict ‘deepfakes’
This system will inevitably result in the censorship of wide swaths of valuable political speech and commentary and will limit the type of ‘uninhibited, robust, and wide-open’ ‘debate on public issues’ that core First Amendment protections are designed to ensure,
X sues to block California anti-deepfakes bill
X has sued to block California law AB 2655, which requires large online platforms to remove or label AI deepfakes related to elections.
X challenges California law on AI election content
Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, has filed a lawsuit to challenge a California law designed to limit AI-generated misleading election content on social media.
Elon Musk’s X sues to block California law that aims to combat election deepfakes
The lawsuit, filed in federal court this week, targets a law that aims to combat harmful videos, images and audio that have been altered or created with artificial intelligence, which are known as
With Musk in tow, Trump eyes changes to government policies on AI and its dangers
Donald Trump’s agenda as US president will include overseeing the development of artificial intelligence, potentially the most powerful technology of our time. He has promised to “slash excess ...
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What Can We Learn from California’s New AI Laws?
As a leading technology hub, it is no shock that California is at the forefront of technology regulation, including regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the past year, California ...
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California lawmakers target AI-fueled fraud in new House bill
The AI Fraud Deterrence Act from Reps. Lieu and Kiley would impose stiffer penalties on individuals who use AI to commit ...
FirstFT: Chinese tech groups grow AI teams in Silicon Valley
Alibaba, for example, is recruiting an AI team in Sunnyvale in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. It has approached engineers, product managers and AI researchers who have worked at OpenAI and the ...
As Lawyers and Lawmakers Tackle AI, the 1990s Loom Large
Sonsini, who cofounded Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and advised Google and Netscape in the 1990s, said that in hindsight, what was now clearly a light-touch approach – or in some cases a ...
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California nuclear plant to deploy AI
The move at Diablo Canyon is the latest example of the growing intersection between technology firms and the energy sector.
Image of Biden wearing MAGA hat during Trump meeting is AI-generated | Fact check
This isn't a real photo of the Biden-Trump meeting. Experts and an AI-detection tool said the image is likely AI-generated. There's no evidence Biden wore the hat at any point during his November ...
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Stronger Privacy Protections and Enforcement Still High on the Agenda in California
As we near the end of 2024, we consider a recent new round of California bills amending the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”) and new ...