Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Zuck Starts Throwing His Weights Around

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.

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In this week’s episode, Mike and Ben cover:

• The U.S. Is About to Design an AI Regulator. Here’s How to Get It Right (Council on Foreign Relations)
• Mark Zuckerberg Says U.S. Should Accelerate AI Development, Not Restrict It (WSJ)
• Want AI you can trust? Start by building the right institutions (Atlantic Council)
• Anthropic Says It’s Against A Ban On Open Weight Models. It Just Wants To Ban Everything That Makes Them Good (Techdirt)
• The High Stakes Behind the EU’s €890M Google DMA Fine (Tech Policy Press)
• Europe bears its teeth, political panic about OpenAI hack and YouTube refines partner policy (Everything in Moderation)
• Trump vows new tariffs on the E.U. after Brussels fines Google $1 billion (Qz)

And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:

• Elon Musk’s xAI sues Minnesota over law banning ‘nudification’ technology (The Guardian)
• The Worst Person You Know Just Filed A Good First Amendment Lawsuit Against A Very Badly Drafted Nudify App Ban (Techdirt)

Our fun links this week are a replica of Scooby Doo’s Mystery-Machine and the Saltburn cricket scandal because we need more satire right now.

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