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Missouri AG Andrew Bailey is investigating Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming the companies' AI chatbots are discriminating against President Trump (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/704851/misso

A Republican state attorney general is formally investigating why AI chatbots don’t like Donald Trump
Missouri state attorney general Andrew Bailey has demanded information from Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google for why their AI chatbots ranked Trump last on a list of how well presidents handled antisemitism.

Meta SecAlign: A Secure Foundation LLM Against Prompt Injection Attacks
Sizhe Chen, Arman Zharmagambetov, David Wagner, Chuan Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02735

Meta SecAlign: A Secure Foundation LLM Against Prompt Injection Attacks
Prompt injection attacks pose a significant security threat to LLM-integrated applications. Model-level defenses have shown strong effectiveness, but are currently deployed into commercial-grade models in a closed-source manner. We believe open-source models are needed by the AI security community, where co-development of attacks and defenses through open research drives scientific progress in mitigation against prompt injection attacks. To this end, we develop Meta SecAlign, the first open-sou…

Still think #AI hallucinations are harmless?
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/04/30/large-libel-mode…

Large Libel Models: New AI Libel Lawsuit, Brought by Conservative Activist Robby Starbuck Against Meta
  Some excerpts from the long Complaint in Starbuck v. Meta Platforms, Inc., filed in Delaware Superior Court yesterday (for more on the legal issues

Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure (Kyle Baird/DL News)
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/markets/meta-bitcoi…

Meta’s Bitcoin treasury play flops as 99% of shareholders say no
Meta shareholders rejected the Bitcoin plan with less than 1% in favour. The proposal called Bitcoin a hedge against inflation and weak bonds. GameStop and Metaplanet are among firms copying Saylor’s Bitcoin play.

Supreme Court turns away online censorship claim by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine group against Meta (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-turns-away-online-censorship-claim-rfk-jrs-anti-vaccine-rcna215932
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p71#a250630p71

Meta and Anthropic prevailed in copyright suits against them, but the rulings have major caveats and don't address when AI output might infringe copyright (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/analysis/694657/ai-copyright-rulings-anthr…

Did AI companies win a fight with authors? Technically
Meta and Anthropic both triumphed in a pair of copyright cases, but with major caveats.

In its December 2023 lawsuit against OpenAI, The New York Times produced dozens of examples where GPT-4 exactly reproduced significant passages from Times stories.
In its response, OpenAI described this as a “fringe behavior” and a “problem that researchers at OpenAI and elsewhere work hard to address.”
But is it actually a fringe behavior?
And have leading AI companies addressed it? 
New research—focusing on books rather than newspaper articles and on different compa…

Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book
The research could have big implications for generative AI copyright lawsuits.

Sky, ITV, and Channel 4 plan to provide streaming ad space in one marketplace, letting advertisers run campaigns simultaneously, to combat Google and Meta (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

A Sharp and Robust Test for Selective Reporting
Stefan Faridani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20035 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20035

A Sharp and Robust Test for Selective Reporting
This paper proposes a test that is consistent against every detectable form of selective reporting and remains interpretable even when the t-scores are not exactly normal. The test statistic is the distance between the smoothed empirical t-curve and the set of all t-curves that would be possible in the absence of any selective reporting. This novel projection test can only be evaded in large meta-samples by selective reporting that also evades all other valid tests of restrictions on the t-curv…

Sky, ITV, and Channel 4 plan to provide streaming ad space in one marketplace, letting advertisers run campaigns simultaneously, to combat Google and Meta (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

Researchers find Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of popular copyrighted books, possibly weakening AI industry claims that such memorization is fringe behavior (Timothy B. Lee/Understanding AI)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/metas-llama-31-can-recall-42-perc…

Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI.