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6 days agoEU reaches tentative deal on simpler AI rules
EU negotiators agreed to delay AI rules, exclude machinery, and add watermarking, reducing legal uncertainty and administrative costs for businesses.
On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to roll back the endangerment finding, which underpins the US's ability to regulate the greenhouse gases that cause climate change. The rollback, the result of more than 15 years of work from right-wing special interest groups, represents the most aggressive move against climate regulation in the US to date-and will introduce a lengthy fight that's almost certain to wind up in front of the Supreme Court.
The order, titled "Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence," directs the Department of Justice to set up a task force within 30 days to challenge certain state laws on the grounds that AI is interstate commerce and should be regulated federally. It gives the Commerce Department 90 days to compile a list of "onerous" state AI laws, an assessment that could affect states' eligibility for federal funds, including broadband grants.
When I returned a year later, the space had been transformed. The women had made it their own, covering the walls with names, phrases and small drawings of hearts, even taping up a poster of the Colombian singer Maluma. What had once been a sterile office now held traces of their presence, their effort to hold on to a sense of identity in a place meant to erase it.