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xAI asks the 8th Circuit to freeze Minnesota’s nudification ban.Judge Cannon sends Florida’s OpenAI suit back to state court.Magistrate overseeing Times v. OpenAI sold her Microsoft stock — and is staying on the case.Judge Frank: xAI has not shown irreparable harm. The Minnesota ban stays in force.A judge told the Pentagon: you may not blacklist a lab for its speech.X and xAI drop Apple from the OpenAI antitrust suit. The OpenAI claims stay.Cut the cameras: Flock’s plate net draws a rare left-right revolt.Justice Department tells the judge: training ChatGPT on The Times is fair use — and a national-security interest.Florida’s attorney general wants to criminalize the model when a chatbot abets a crime.EFF: the CHATBOT Act forces one parenting model on every family.xAI asks the 8th Circuit to freeze Minnesota’s nudification ban.Judge Cannon sends Florida’s OpenAI suit back to state court.Magistrate overseeing Times v. OpenAI sold her Microsoft stock — and is staying on the case.Judge Frank: xAI has not shown irreparable harm. The Minnesota ban stays in force.A judge told the Pentagon: you may not blacklist a lab for its speech.X and xAI drop Apple from the OpenAI antitrust suit. The OpenAI claims stay.Cut the cameras: Flock’s plate net draws a rare left-right revolt.Justice Department tells the judge: training ChatGPT on The Times is fair use — and a national-security interest.Florida’s attorney general wants to criminalize the model when a chatbot abets a crime.EFF: the CHATBOT Act forces one parenting model on every family.

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Cut the cameras: Flock’s plate net draws a rare left-right revolt.

Abbott blocked the contract. Hawley opened a probe. Massie-Khanna would cut federal funds. 120,000 cameras.

The Guardian

Hawley to Flock: produce the files. Americans do not surrender the Fourth Amendment when they drive.

120,000 cameras, 49 states, a national searchable pool the Constitution never authorized.

Sen. Hawley

137,000 cameras. 20 billion plate scans a month. Cities revolt — and Congress files bills.

Flock Safety’s national ALPR net is now the Fourth Amendment case of the decade.

CRS

ICE biometrics now underpin a warrantless identity net, coalition report argues.

DHS logged 238 AI uses by 2025 — more than half at ICE and CBP.

Biometric Update

DHS plan: hand facial recognition to local police. Photos kept 15 years.

An internal document would expand ICE’s face app to more than a thousand agencies.

NPR

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