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Marvel’s New ‘Captain America’ Is No. 1, Despite a Backlash and Poor Reviews
“Captain America: Brave New World” was expected to take in $100 million from Thursday through Monday in North America.
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New Proposed Regulations Will Impact How Businesses Utilize AI to Make Personnel Decisions
It is no surprise that businesses are seeking ways to utilize AI to increase efficiency, including developing automated decision-making systems to assist in hiring and promotion processes. The California Civil Rights Council is actively working on new laws to address potential employment discrimination based on protected characteristics when using AI in personnel decisions….By: CDF Labor…
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Privacy Tip #431 – DOGE Has Access to Our Personal Information: What You Need to Know
According to a highly critical article recently published by TechCrunch, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), President Trump’s advisory board headed by Elon Musk, has “taken control of top federal departments and datasets” and has access to “sensitive data of millions of Americans and the nation’s closest allies.” The author calls this “the biggest breach…
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Thomson Reuters Wins Copyright Case Against Former AI Competitor
Thomson Reuters scored a major victory in one of the first cases dealing with the legality of using copyrighted data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. In 2020, Thomson Reuters sued the now-defunct AI start-up Ross Intelligence for alleged improper use of Thomson Reuters materials, including case headnotes in its Westlaw search engine, to train…
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Three States Ban DeepSeek Use on State Devices and Networks
New York, Texas, and Virginia are the first states to ban DeepSeek, the Chinese-owned generative artificial intelligence (AI) application, on state-owned devices and networks….By: Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider
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White House Seeks Public Input on AI Action Plan
The White House is gathering industry feedback on AI governance, giving stakeholders an opportunity to shape future policy….By: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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Regulatory and Legal Implications of the Surgeon General’s Call For Cancer Warning On Alcohol Labels
On January 3, 2025, outgoing US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released a new advisory outlining the alleged causal link between alcohol consumption and cancer, claiming “numerous high-quality observational studies and meta-analytic reviews have assessed and observed a significant relationship between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk.”…By: Mayer Brown
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Vance and Musk Attack German Consensus on Nazis and Speech
Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler.
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A Quick, Quiet Trip to Belarus Signals a Turn in U.S. Policy
After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better relations, raising hopes of loosening his repression and his embrace of Moscow.
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German Chancellor Scholz Rebukes Vance’s Support for Far-Right During Munich Conference
At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections.
