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FCC is weighing a Club for Growth petition to let political groups robocall mobile phones, AI voices included, without prior consent. Voice-AI outreach teams would swap a consent check for opt-out handling and a per-person call counter.
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National Conference of State Legislatures counts 31 states with election-deepfake laws, 28 built on disclosure and three that ban some fakes despite a label. Where a label is all the law asks, a fabricated candidate video can keep circulating once it carries one.
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The billion goes to water utilities, local governments and community banks as subsidized Daybreak access rather than cash, so what it costs OpenAI is marginal compute plus support hours, and what it buys is the segment's reference price.
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Healey's order makes a signed community benefits agreement the price of entry to state permitting for anything above 25 megawatts, while the cost of missing the 100% clean-power test stays unpriced until MassDEP writes that rule by December 31.
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The litigation over whether election wagers are illegal gambling will not conclude before votes are counted, which leaves the platforms booking their largest volume inside about 25 states whose statutes ban it.
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