Image: Getty New York City announced a new permitting system for companies interested in testing autonomous vehicles on its roads, including a requirement that a human safety driver sit behind t...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/28/24108894/nyc-autonomous-robotaxi-safety-driver-permit-eric-adams
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images All US federal agencies will now be required to have a senior leader overseeing all AI systems they use, as the government wants to ensure th...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/28/24114105/federal-agencies-ai-responsible-guidance-omb-caio
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New Y...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/27/24114043/israel-facial-recognition-gaza-strip-corsight
Oregon joins Minnesota, California, and New York in giving consumers and repair shops more control over device repairs. | Image: iFixit Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has now signed one of the stron...
Image: Vjeran Pavic GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ+ media advocacy group, claims that Meta’s content moderation system is allowing an “epidemic of anti-transgender hate” to flourish on...
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The question of who gets to regulate crypto has some answers, as a judge has ruled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s securities lawsuit against...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/27/24113472/sec-coinbase-crypto-lawsuit-unregistered-securities
Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Independent presidential candidate and notable anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has tapped Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy Silicon Valley lawyer, as...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/26/24112972/nicole-shanahan-rfk-jr-vice-president-pick
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by STR/NurPhoto, Getty Images For months, Elon Musk has been dropping decidedly unsubtle hints that he believes in the great replacement, a conspiracy theory t...
Illustration: The Verge Meta’s executives have been saying for a while that they don’t want to boost posts about politics in their apps. Now, an opt-out setting that limits recommendations ...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24111604/meta-setting-downranks-politics-instagram-threads
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images In a decision filed Monday , federal Judge Charles Breyer dismissed a lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X against the Center for Countering Digital Hate...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24091143/elon-musk-x-ccdh-lawsuit-dismissed