Draft executive order would create AI litigation task force and threaten federal funding to force states to abandon artificial intelligence regulations.

The company sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing porn, as US and UK laws have caused its traffic to plummet. In letters sent to Apple, Google, and Microsoft this week, Pornhub's parent company urged the tech giants to support device-based age verification in their app stores and across their operating systems, WIRED has learned. "Based on our real-world experience with existing age assurance laws, we strongly support the initiative to protect minors online," reads the letter sent by Anthony Penhale, chief legal officer for Aylo, which owns Pornhub, Brazzers, Redtube, and YouPorn. "However, we have found site-based age assurance approaches to be fundamentally flawed and counterproductive." The letter adds that site-based age verification methods have "failed to achieve their primary objective: protecting minors from accessing age-inappropriate material online."

Republicans face potential political fallout if the AI investment bubble bursts during Trump's presidency, similar to how past market crashes hurt incumbent parties at the polls.

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Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says he will step back from all public commitments, adding the move is to allow him to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is stepping down from a teaching post at Harvard University and as a director of one of its business and government schools, a spokesperson said on Wednesday, after Congress released documents showing Summers shared close ties with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. A spokesperson for Summers, Steven Goldberg, said Summers' co-teachers would complete the semester for three ongoing courses. Mr. Summers has decided it's in the best interest of the center for him to go on leave from his role as director as Harvard undertakes its review, he said. Summers, also a former president of Harvard University, is a director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. Summers has been under fire since the U.S. House Oversight Committee released documents detailing an ongoing personal correspondence between Summers and Epstein, who died by suicide in a Manhattan prison in 2019 as he faced sex-trafficking charges.

Evaluating Large Language Models' (LLMs) anthropomorphic capabilities has