Mariam Baksh

The Consumer Federation of America gave a nod to the development of open-source artificial intelligence models, telling lawmakers they should not be treated as a scapegoat for rising rates of fraud facilitated by AI, and pressed for solutions that included low-hanging bipartisan proposals and harder-to-reach measures, like privacy legislation.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia has reversed the ruling of a lower district court in deciding it's plausible that casino-hotels have colluded in their use of artificial intelligence technology provided by Cendyn to set room rates, allowing a case brought by consumers to proceed.

OpenAI is partnering with METR to conduct a review of the unauthorized penetration of Hugging Face by two of the frontier developer's models during what the firm has said was a test of their cyber capabilities.

U.S. District Court Judge Rita Lin said federal agencies' use of Anthropic's cyber-focused Mythos model could go against the Trump administration's claim that the company's products could be used to sabotage U.S. operations and are therefore a risk to federal supply chains.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is requesting public comment on an initial, and potentially final, version of guidance for documenting and disclosing AI development processes and components.

Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) is pressing Hugging Face to share actions it has taken to combat the creation and dissemination of false non-consensual images on the platform for sharing and using artificial intelligence tools, which is an outspoken proponent of open-weight models.

Fifteen state attorneys general are signaling plans to take legal action against OpenAI in a letter threatening associated charges for destroying any materials related to the unauthorized access of Hugging Face infrastructure by two of the firm's frontier models.

Conservative Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) received praise from the leader of a progressive think tank working to address the increasingly bipartisan issue of “surveillance pricing,” during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where the needle appeared to be moving on related data privacy rights.

The Senate Commerce Committee favorably reported an amended version of the Youth AI Privacy Act as part of a legislative package -- opposed by a key tech industry group -- that also includes a similar CHATBOT Act and the Kids Online Safety Act.

Business Software Alliance CEO Victoria Espinel encouraged policymakers to maintain a neutral approach when assessing artificial intelligence models, listing lower costs, greater safety and security and more competition as being among the benefits of open-weight options.