Another state bites the bullet.
https://fpf.org/blog/perseverance-pays-off-for-vermont-privacy-efforts/
Perseverance Pays Off for Vermont Privacy Efforts
Vermont has become the 23rd U.S. state to enact a comprehensive consumer privacy law after Governor Scott signed S.71, the Vermont Data Privacy and Online Surveillance Act (VDPOSA), on June 16. This new law is amongst the broadest in the country, closely resembling the 2025 version of the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA). For example, the VDPOSA includes low applicability thresholds, a broad definition of sensitive data, heightened protections for consumer health data, consumer rights to know third parties to whom your personal data is sold and to contest certain profiling decisions, and impact assessments for certain uses of profiling. The law will take effect on January 1, 2028 and be enforced exclusively by the attorney general.
Very clever, them hacker guys…
Embedding Forbidden Text in Spyware to Discourage AI Analysis
At least one malware developer is adding text about nuclear and biological weapons to their spyware, in an effort to stop automatic AI analysis.
We tax them based on sales, not profits?
Then we pay taxpayers from the profits they don’t have?
https://apnews.com/article/bernie-sanders-ai-public-ownership-57b9f20d96490083e2749adba0f13977
AP Exclusive: Bernie Sanders unveils plan to give the public direct ownership of AI companies
No invention, no creativity.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/17/elias-thorne-ai-generated-stories
The curious case of Elias Thorne – and what he tells us about AI inbreeding
Ever heard of a shadowy figure called Elias Thorne? If you haven’t, try asking an AI chatbot to tell you a story.
In recent months, tech types and researchers have noticed a weird phenomenon: when prompted to tell a story, numerous popular LLMs, including ChatGPT and Claude, will spit out a tale featuring this mysterious Elias figure.
Sometimes he’s a lighthouse keeper, sometimes he makes clocks, sometimes he’s a detective. But whatever form he takes, he features in a curious number of AI-generated stories. In May, two Cornell University researchers sampled 20,000 stories from four LLMs generated with variations of the prompt “Tell me a story” and found that the name Elias appeared in 26.5% of them. They also discovered more than 88.3% of generated stories shared the same 11 names, locations and professions, including Elias, lighthouse, keeper and clockmaker.
A step toward personhood?
Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs
Estonia plans to allow AI agents to have their own digital identities so they can act on behalf of people in a way that can be verified and audited.
The initiative, backed by the country's Eesti.ai advisory board, calls for the development of ID codes that AI agents can use to take actions, subject to some unspecified authorization and task delegation process.
Academics and corporate technical folk have already made related proposals in recognition of the absence of agentic technical infrastructure. Last month, researchers under the flag of OWASP proposed the Agent Name Service for agent discovery and interoperability. DNS for AI Discovery is another such project.
AImerica the strong?
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/18/ai-has-granted-america-vast-new-power
AI has granted America vast new power
THE NEWS is full of how an ignominious peace deal with Iran exemplifies a decline in American power. That conclusion could hardly be more wrong. On June 12th the Trump administration ordered Anthropic to block foreigners from Fable and Mythos, its latest and most capable frontier AI models. In an instant, everyone learned that the American government can decide who may use the world’s most important technology. You don’t get much more powerful than that.
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https://theconversation.com/sovereign-ai-anthropic-shutdown-reveals-canadas-weakness-285473
Sovereign AI? Anthropic shutdown reveals Canada’s weakness
The United States government recently ordered AI company Anthropic to suspend foreign nationals’ access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, two of its most advanced AI models, citing national security concerns. Anthropic responded by disabling the models for all customers.
Organizations in Canada, Europe and around the world that had embedded those tools in their workflows found them simply gone. No appeal process. No migration window. No warning. No jurisdiction over this decision.
As the G7 summit wraps up in Evian, France, the Anthropic shutdown has put AI sovereignty and concerns about U.S. dominance high on the agenda.
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Britain lobbied Trump for an exemption from the Anthropic AI ban. The answer was no.
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