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The TikTok prohibition appears to beryllium for existent this time. (Technically, “the TikTok prohibition oregon divesture but hopefully divesture” is astir apt much accurate, but everybody’s conscionable calling it a ban.) Only a fewer weeks ago, each momentum for the prohibition seemed gone. Now, it’s backmost with a vengeance, with a mates of tiny tweaks and a caller governmental strategy. And it could get a ballot successful the Senate in the adjacent fewer days.
There’s besides a caller bill, known arsenic the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), starting to gain immoderate traction among important radical looking to walk broad privateness regularisation successful the US. Of course, we’ve heard that before. Many times. So volition the APRA win wherever different bills person failed?
On this occurrence of The Vergecast, we chat with The Verge’s Lauren Feiner astir the galore tech-related bills moving done Congress close now. There’s plentifulness of politicking happening astatine each levels of the legislature and plentifulness for Congress to woody with close now, but it appears tech issues are creeping up the argumentation precedence list.
After that, we bring you an excerpt from a speech astatine the Chicago Humanities Festival, wherever The Verge put connected a bid of events each astir AI and creativity. In this one, we speech to 2 filmmakers and lifelong creatives who decided to commencement an AI institution called Wonder Dynamics. The co-founders, Tye Sheridan and Nikola Todorovic, speech astir however AI is changing Hollywood, the quality betwixt making creatives much effectual and replacing them entirely, and whether we’ll ever get a afloat movie from a elemental substance prompt.
Finally, we reply a question connected the Vergecast Hotline astir Apple’s Messages app... and wherefore it’s not better.
If you privation to cognize much connected each the worldly we screen successful this episode, present are a fewer links to get you started, opening with the TikTok ban:
- TikTok ban: each the quality connected attempts to prohibition the video platform
- The TikTok ‘ban’ passes successful the House again
- TikTok divest-or-ban authorities could abruptly beryllium fast-tracked successful the Senate
- Senators propulsion to declassify TikTok briefings
And connected the different tech bills successful Congress close now:
- Lawmakers unveil caller bipartisan integer privateness measure aft years of impasse
- A existent privateness law? House lawmakers are optimistic this time
- New measure would make nationalist datasets to bid AI and incentivize innovation
And connected the Hollywood / AI panel:
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