Law
How Brandolini’s law informs our everyday infosec reality – Help Net Security
Brandolini’s law, also known as the “bullshit asymmetry principle”, is simple but devastating: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.” While it’s often thrown around in political debates and social media flame wars, I’ve been thinking a lot about how brutally relevant it is…
AI-Driven Antitrust and Competition Law: Algorithmic Collusion, Self-Learning Pricing Tools, and Legal Challenges in the US and EU
AI in Market Economics and Pricing Algorithms AI-driven pricing models, particularly those utilizing reinforcement learning (RL), can lead to outcomes resembling traditional collusion, fundamentally altering market dynamics. Unlike human-set strategies in oligopoly models, AI agents, like Q-learning, autonomously learn pricing strategies from data, often resulting in supra-competitive pricing due to agents’ ability to detect rivals’…
The End of Moore’s Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning – Sutro
For the past few years, the AI industry has operated under its own version of Moore’s Law: an unwavering belief that the cost of intelligence would perpetually decrease by orders of magnitude each year. Like clockwork, each new model generation promised to be not only more capable but also cheaper to run. Last week, Google…
Why a new anti-revenge porn law has free speech experts alarmed | TechCrunch
Privacy and digital rights advocates are raising alarms over a law that many would expect them to cheer: a federal crackdown on revenge porn and AI-generated deepfakes. The newly signed Take It Down Act makes it illegal to publish nonconsensual explicit images — real or AI-generated — and gives platforms just 48 hours to comply…
Nicole Clark, CEO & Founder of Trellis – Interview Series
Nicole Clark, CEO and founder of Trellis, created the legal analytics platform to address challenges she faced as a litigator. Drawing from her experience in business litigation, she began aggregating state trial court data to tailor legal arguments and improve case outcomes. Recognizing its potential, she expanded Trellis to democratize access to legal insights. With…
Law enforcement agencies see AI as a key tool for reducing crime – Help Net Security
A U.S. national survey of first responders reveals strong support for AI adoption, cybersecurity concerns, and increasing demand for cloud-native, data-driven, and interoperable CAD and RMS systems to improve efficiency and public safety outcomes, according to Mark43. “Public safety agencies across the United States are grappling with challenges such as cyberattacks, legacy system outages, and…