AI regulation

The California AI bill is back…and it lost its teeth

California’s most controversial AI safety bill of 2024 might be dead, but its author isn’t backing down. State Senator Scott Weiner is back with SB 53, a new AI bill that strips away the most debated parts of last year’s failed legislation while keeping key whistleblower protections and a public cloud computing initiative called CalCompute. […]

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Mistral urges telcos to get into the hyperscaler game

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch brought a sales pitch to Mobile World Congress on Tuesday, urging delegates at the world’s biggest telecoms confab in Barcelona to invest in building data center infrastructure and “becoming hyperscalers” to boost the regional AI ecosystem. “We would welcome more domestic effort in making more data centers,” he said during an on-stage

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UK drops ‘safety’ from its AI body, now called AI Security Institute, inks MOU with Anthropic

The U.K. government wants to make a hard pivot into boosting its economy and industry with AI, and as part of that, it’s pivoting an institution that it founded a little over a year ago for a very different purpose. Today the Department of Science, Industry and Technology announced that it would be renaming the

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How much ‘government efficiency’ will Elon Musk be able to pull off?

The idea that government “should be run like a business” is by no means a new one. But with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in charge of government efficiency, it’s worth taking a closer look at whether business principles can be applied to government.  Today on Equity, Rebecca Bellan is discussing the intersection of tech,

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a16z VC Martin Casado explains why so many AI regulations are so wrong

The problem with most attempts at regulating AI so far is that lawmakers are focusing on some mythical future AI experience, instead of truly understanding the new risks AI actually introduces. So argued Andreessen Horowitz general partner VC Martin Casado to a standing-room crowd at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 last week. Casado, who leads a16z’s $1.25

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Trump’s election throws tech regulation a curveball

President-elect Donald Trump has made a slew of “day one” pledges, including dismantling President Biden’s AI policies. While we’re not sure exactly if Trump will take action the first day he takes office in January, it’s clear that a tech regulation shakeup is on the way.  Today, on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Devin

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Vinod Khosla calls SB 1047 author ‘clueless’ and ‘not qualified’ to regulate the real dangers of AI

Vinod Khosla said the author of California’s recently vetoed AI bill, SB 1047, was clueless about the real dangers of AI, and not qualified to have an opinion on global national security issues. The comment about state Senator Scott Wiener was made during an on-stage interview at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. “He’s clueless about the real

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Microsoft to face higher competition scrutiny in Germany, including over its use of AI

Microsoft has joined an exclusive club of tech giants that are subject to a special abuse control regime in Germany. The country’s Federal Cartel Office (FCO) confirmed on Monday that the software giant could face restrictions if the competition authority deems an intervention is necessary. The designation, which lasts for five years, is important, as

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