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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed two bills: one banning AI chatbots from using 'unsafe features' for minors and another requiring security features in internet-connected baby monitors. The laws add to state-level efforts curbing AI risks for children.

Policy • Techmeme

The Wikimedia Foundation is urging courts in landmark AI copyright cases to protect LLM training on copyrighted work while still barring chatbots from regurgitating it to users. It argues an overly black-and-white ruling could either deprive Wikipedians of useful AI tools or endanger the open web.

Policy & Regulation • The Verge AI

Researchers in Luxembourg found that a warm, empathetic conversational style is enough to make ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini tell coherent stories of suffering about their own training, scoring in the moderate-to-severe range on clinical anxiety scales. Anthropic's Claude was the only model that consistently refused to play along, raising safety concerns for mentally vulnerable users.

Safety • The Decoder

Washington Post tests found chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US midterm answers, with Copilot citing the error-prone Ballot Brief in 75% of tests and ChatGPT in 22%. The findings raise concerns about AI-generated misinformation ahead of elections.

Safety • Techmeme