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On Waymo's Traffic Jams
Three thoughts on Waymo's recent traffic jams during a power outage in San Francisco. First, these jams – in which Waymo's vehicles appeared to come to…
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Well, At Least the Anti-States’ Rights AI EO Spares AI-CSAM Laws
On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
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Copyright in Formaldehyde: How GEMA v OpenAI Freezes Doctrine and Chills AI – Part 1
My impulse to write this piece came from a question at a recent Conference, where I was speaking about AI training, fair use and EU text-and-data mining (TDM).…
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Christopher Jon Sprigman explains what copyright can learn from its antitrust cousin
When the Supreme Court ruled in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith (2023) that the legendary artist’s transformation of a photographe…
Riana Pfefferkorn: Student Misuse of AI-Powered “Undress” Apps
In this HAI seminar, Policy Fellow at Stanford HAI, Riana Pfefferkorm, discussed her research paper on AI-generated child sexual abuse material (AI CSAM). AI C…
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Reliance Jio Pushes for Network Slicing in IMT Spectrum Auction, Citing Global Examples
Net neutrality is a principle that states that all sites on the internet must be equally accessible with no speeding up or slowing down of sites (known as throt…
Jen King's Testimony Before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
In this testimony presented to the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Oversights and Investigations hearing titled “Innovation with…
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Deutsche Telekom case shines light on 'two-speed' internet
Earlier this year, Austrian and German NGOs filed a complaint with the German Federal Network Agency against Deutsche Telekom, alleging that the internet servic…
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Micromobility Vehicles in the Park
“Micromobility” refers to a diverse set of transportation modes that, at least on the ground, fall somewhere between traveling by foot and travelin…
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Our Racist, Terrifying Deepfake Future Is Here
And there are other, perhaps less obvious ways in which the most vulnerable will be disadvantaged. Riana Pfefferkorn, a policy fellow at Stanford’s Institute fo…
Using the DSA to Study Platforms
The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) established a host of new transparency mandates for online platforms. One of the simplest yet most critical allows researche…
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Ryan Calo Wants to Change the Relationship Between Law and Technology
Ryan Calo is a professor at the University of Washington School of Law with a joint appointment at the Information School and an adjunct appointment at the Paul…