• 
• 10 min
• The Guardian
• 2025

Meta was accused of violating fair use agreements. Writers Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates had argued that the Facebook owner had breached copyright law by using their books without permission to train its AI system. It was later decided in court that fair use agreements were not violated because of the prosecution’s inability to prove how this would cause market dilution by flooding the market with work similar to theirs. This may, however, be a case of not making a compelling argument in court.
 

• Content Moderation
• AI
• Data Mining

• 
• 5 min
• Nature
• 2025

Research has found that 90% of studies on AI development, as well as 86% of the resulting patents, involve human imaging. This means that data used to train AI models are well suited to being used in surveillance applications by military, law enforcement, corporations, and other private actors. There is also substantial evidence to suggest that much of the research that created the current models were funded by government and military agencies.
 

• Civil Surveillance
• AI
• Big Data

• 
• 5 min
• CNBC
• 2025

Following in the footsteps of the state of Indiana (2019), almost all states in the US provide tax exemptions to eligible data centers. The demand for data centers was high when the Indiana legislation was passed, but it has skyrocketed ever since the advent of LLMs and their need for more storage and energy. To attract data centers, states are forfeiting millions of dollars in taxes. Questions about whether having these exemptions is even profitable, considering that they don’t create that many jobs but use a significant amount of electricity, along with questions about who is getting these benefits, are being raised. It was found that a company applied for an exemption, but it was another holding company for Google.
 
 

• Governing Technologies
• Big Data

• 
• 5 min
• Nature
• 2025

Researchers in this article make an argument against the use of AI in the scientific process. They believe that the sheer volume of academic articles being produced is putting an immense strain on the peer review process. This limits the capacity for in-depth thought and confuses scientific progress with a skewed notion of academic productivity—scientific progress is quantified by the number of articles produced.
 

• Limitations of Digital Technologies
• Promotion of Human Values
• AI

• 
• 3 min
• Cyber Security News
• 2025

Tesla’s famous wall charger, which is installed in homes and businesses worldwide, gets hacked through the charging cable on the adapter. The adapter had a previously undocumented feature that allowed Tesla vehicles to update it through the charging cable, and hackers were able to exploit this vulnerability. After being able to execute arbitrary code on the device, hackers may gain access to the local network that the charger is connected to—among other things.

• Safety and Security
• Autonomous Vehicles

• 
• 5 min
• BBC
• 2025

A surgeon in the occupied West Bank talks about how Israeli military drones are coming to neighborhoods and picking off civilians, including injured children near hospitals.
 

• Global Impact of Technology
• Drones