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Anupam Chander

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Dog dad and Georgetown law prof.

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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Quick initial take on Thompson-Reuters v Ross: opinion is a narrow holding w.r.t. a particular (and somewhat unusual) set of facts that don't go to the core fair use questions in generative AI training.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Some tv recommendations (okay--but stop Game of Thrones before the final episodes!)
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I loved this AI doomer illustration in the @washingtonpost for this story by @nitashatiku: washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/21/is-this-how-world-ends-extinction-scenarios-are-taking-over-ai-debate/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f006. (Also, will the robots who replace us reinvent gender?)
robots view human skeleton in museum
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
US Government built a search tool for the Federal Register using Alibaba's QWEN model. This is my screenshot today. officechai.com/ai/us-govts-...
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Kian said the bomb had struck the section of the wedding set aside for women. “That is why most of those injured are women and children” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/v...
nytimes.com
In Small Iranian Town, a U.S. Attack Turns a Wedding Into a Tragedy
The bomb that hit the residential area was American, according to a weapons expert and a visual analysis by The Times. It killed five people and wounded 67 others, the Iranian authorities said.
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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
1/Today marks 1 yr of the President's extrajudicial killing campaign at sea, carried out by the military—220+ people dead @justsecurity.org has tracked the legal, policy, & moral fallout from day 1 In calmer times, it would be the story of our era A few must-reads below, plus the full Collection:
justsecurity.org
Collection: U.S. Lethal Strikes on Suspected Drug Traffickers, Operation Southern Spear, Operation Absolute Resolve
Collection of expert analysis on the legality of the U.S. strike on Venezuelan vessels in the Caribbean, the consequences of the strike, and related issues.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I just read the statement that the US DOJ filed in the NY Times v. OpenAI case. It strongly argues that LLM reading of copyrighted works for training is fair use. It also rejects Copyright Office's pre-publication theory of "market dilution" for AI outputs. It cites @edleeprof.bsky.social.
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This amount of parental supervision for teens' communications is ghastly. Drafters likely imagined kind parents helping an out-of-control kid. But the reality is that many, many kids have abusive parents. Imagine trying to reach out for help, but being trapped in the situation this describes.
Meta agrees to provide Supervising Parents with information concerning the
amount of time their Teen User is spending on Meta SMPs, including separately
for time on the Meta SMP, time using the Meta SMP’s messaging features, time
viewing Longform Content (to the extent excluded from the calculation of daily
limits pursuant to Section II.B.3.a.i), and the usernames of the Teen User’s social
connections and individuals messaging the Teen User, and usernames of any user
reported by a Teen User. In addition, Instagram will notify Supervising Parents
should their Teen User engage in repeated searches for terms related to suicide,
self-harm, or eating disorders, and Facebook will notify Supervising Parents
should their Teen User engage in repeated searches for terms related to suicide,
self-harm, or eating disorders.
2. For Teen Users, Supervising Parents will be notified on a daily basis when the
Teen User communicates directly with each adult user for the first time with the
Teen User and shall provide a link to the adult user’s profile to provide information
such as their stated hometown or city or mutual connections, to the extent the
information is publicly available.If a Teen User is enrolled in Parental Supervision, Meta shall notify the
Supervising Parent if the Teen User creates or explicitly links a new secondary
Meta SMP account within their Accounts Center or has been linked to a Soft
Matched Account through Meta SMPs, including a link to the secondary account’s
profile. Meta SMPs shall automatically apply the Supervising Parent’s approved
time management settings in Section II.B and content restrictions to all explicitly
linked Meta SMP accounts and all Supervised Accounts for a Teen User belonging
to the same Meta SMP.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I wrote an op-ed for China Daily on tort liability for AI, including some discussion of the EU AI Act and open source AI. www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202608/28/...
chinadaily.com.cn
Drawing the line on AI liability
Who should be held liable when an artificial intelligence model is used in a way that causes harm? The question is being debated both in classrooms and courtrooms across the United States.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
In his speech yesterday, Canada PM Mark Carney seemed to try to explain to the President what a “trade deficit” is. You’re not just giving another country 100s of millions of dollars… You’re buying things from them! That you want!
Another prominent justification for U.S. tariffs has been their claim that, since the United States runs a trade deficit with Canada, we were "ripping them off"
But the United States' narrow merchandise trade deficit only exists because the U.S. buys so much of its energy from us.
Canada fuels American growth: supplying 99% of their natural gas imports, 85% of electricity imports, and 60% of crude oil imports. I don't think they want us to stop sending it.
And the comprehensive U.S.-Canada trade balance, which includes the many services - from finance to entertainment - that we buy from the U.S. shows a persistent American trade surplus.
Most fundamentally, trade is about building mutual strength - creating a relationship that benefits both countries.
For example, Canada is the largest customer for U.S. cars - in fact, we buy more American-built cars than the United Kingdom, Japan, and China combined.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Georgetown's new student convocation ceremony yesterday was especially memorable because of its powerful exhortation of our values--including people for others--and the first such convocation led by President Eduardo Penalver.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Legal startup Harvey's new AI model is built on Kimi K3, a Chinese open source model from Moonshot AI: "Harvey Tenet is a Kimi K3 base that we post-trained together with Fireworks research for long-horizon legal work." www.harvey.ai/blog/post-tr...
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Update on Harvey's Post-Training Effort
Introducing Harvey Tenet, our first post-trained open-weight model, with promising results for legal AI performance and cost-efficiency.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Do others share the view that Mimecast has an unreasonably high false positive rate for its spam filter--that is, marking email as spam/dangerous when they are useful or innocuous?
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Based on interviews with public defenders, Princeton's Dominik Stammbach & Peter Henderson mapped where AI helps—surfacing briefs, making sense of evidence—and where it doesn't. They make the case for careful adoption.
techpolicy.press
Why Public Defense Should Incorporate AI Carefully
In interviews with public defenders, Princeton's Dominik Stammbach and Peter Henderson assessed their AI perspectives.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I'd like to know who was abusing diet dog food so that I now have to get a prescription from our veterinarian before I can buy the food or even change its flavoring or brand.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The French Constitutional Council is composed of judges in their sixties through eighties, who all likely grew up with Minitel, a system for which privacy was a key constitutive feature.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s, @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/world/france...
reuters.com
France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s
France's top court on Friday blocked ​a bill banning social media access for under-15s, saying it infringed upon freedom of ‌expression and delivering a setback for President Emmanuel Macron, who aske...
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Nice for the @nytimes.com to highlight a designer from Bombay. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/s...
nytimes.com
Diya Joukani, India’s ‘It’ Girl, Really Is That Cool
Diya Joukani’s popular videos on social media documenting her daily life in Mumbai have earned her a reputation as “the cool girl from India.” She has parlayed it into her brand.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I spoke with @verge about why Apple might have temporarily removed Telegram but did not remove X from the App Store because of concerns about CSAM. www.theverge.com/tech/976405/...
theverge.com
Why does Apple keep banning Telegram, but never X?
Telegram doesn’t have the same political backing as X.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I spoke with NPR's All Things Considered about the allegations of Chinese distillation of U.S. AI models. www.npr.org/2026/07/28/n...
npr.org
Allegations of AI distillation spark debate about IP theft. But is it illegal?
Distillation lets AI companies train new models using existing ones. The White House says Chinese firms are using it to gain an edge, raising questions about competition and intellectual property.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Just realized why Belgium has passed long periods without a government--to avoid having a leader who meddles with FIFA.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Seven amazing new colleagues at Georgetown Law starting this month, including:
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The '26 World Cup logo is the first to depict the actual trophy--an inexplicable choice given how odd the trophy looks. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...
washingtonpost.com
Why designers loved the 1986 World Cup logo and can’t stand this year’s
The ’86 logo became a staple of Mexico City design. The 2026 edition has left designers mourning a missed opportunity.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is not at all intentional, but beginning tomorrow Anthropic is going to be inundated by users eager to get their hands on the model that is too dangerous for mortals to touch. Forbidden fruit meets possible compute constraints.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I can't be the only one who misread this as "Baidu-Alibaba-Tencent" rather than British American Tobacco.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Alibaba sues US Dept of Defense for designating Alibaba as a "Chinese Military Company," alleging infringement of APA, First Amendment, and Fifth Amendment. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/b...
nytimes.com
Alibaba Sues Pentagon Over China Military Label
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Under AICOA, if a large platform disadvantages a competitor, it faces a fine of 10% of U.S. revenues, and possible forfeiture of CEO and other executive compensation. This would have huge negative impact for content moderation online, as major platforms offer news services. 1/
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Yet another cost of our illegal war: "Based on current conditions, U.S. airlines will probably pay some $25 billion more for jet fuel in 2026 than they expected to. That’s more than what the industry earned in 2024 and 2025 combined." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Going to Europe This Summer? Good Luck.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Nice letter to the editor from a high school senior, stating the obvious: if you admit the top students from around the world (in a process that has gotten substantially more competitive over the decades because of the addition of women/int'l students), high grades follow. 1/
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Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
In my, admittedly limited, experience, having students who think you're accessible, personally engaged in their learning, and fair, is a much more reliable avenue to strong evaluations than whether they scored a good grade.
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Thiru Balasubramaniam @thirugeneva.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
"KEI is pleased that WHO negotiators eliminated problematic language on technology transfer in the global action plan on AMR." @who.int #WHA79 @grahamdutfield.bsky.social @anupamchander.bsky.social @jamielove.bsky.social
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I'm curious what folks think is the mechanism here: 1. Students submit teaching evals long before exams are graded; 2. Grade distribution of any particular class not publicly available; hard to know who is an easy grader except unreliable anecdata. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
@theinformation.com interviewed me on "Why Elon Musk Lost His OpenAI Lawsuit" youtu.be/Pdp0aI3rgug?...
youtu.be
Why Elon Musk Lost His OpenAI Lawsuit
YouTube video by The Information
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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The long wait has finally come to an end. The Commission has finally published its draft guidelines for the classification of high-risk artificial intelligence systems under the EU AI Act. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d...
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Today at LSE, @madhavisunder.bsky.social gives the Prof. Bill Cornish Memorial Lecture on "Deepfakes and the Misuse of Copyright." LSE professors @hutko.bsky.social & Luke McDonagh will chair, and Oxford Prof. Dev Gangee will serve as discussant. Zoom option. lselaw.events/event/the-pr...
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The Professor Bill Cornish Memorial Lecture 2026 – “About-Face: Deepfakes and the Misuse of Copyright” - LSE Law School Events
The Professor Bill Cornish Memorial Lecture series was established as an annual event by LSE academics Dr Martin Husovec and Dr Luke McDonagh to honour the late Professor Bill Cornish who passed away ...
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georgetownlj.bsky.social @georgetownlj.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
In The National Security Internet, @anupamchander.bsky.social analyzes the modern ascent of digital borders in the name of national security, and the costs they impose on personal rights, global progress, and more.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
In setting up the U.S.-Iran Claims Tribunal, the U.S. promised: “(…) [t]he United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran’s internal affairs.” Apparently, Iran filed a claim.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Told the @nytimes that Musk was an awkward plaintiff in a case complaining about OpenAI's private arm -- when he was himself trying to take the company private, but under his control. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/t...
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Exam writer deploys canon "Noscitur a socks"--alas undermined by autocorrect (an AI system)!
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Eric Goldman on S. 230 case🔥: Instagram terminated accounts of "Manosphere enthusiasts the Tate bros, Andrew and Tristian" "for “promoting’ dangerous individuals or organizations’ or for inciting misogyny.”" "Maybe Tate bros would have had more courtroom success if they added some women lawyers..."
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Glad to see the decline in the poor/near poor category since 1980: "More Americans Are Breaking Into the Upper Middle Class" @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/more...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I wrote about RightsCon's cancellation after Zambia's government announced it would postpone the event to sort out its concerns over "thematic issues." With thousands about to depart (or already en route) to Lusaka, it's a huge blow to the digital and human rights field.
techpolicy.press
RightsCon Canceled After Zambia Requires ‘Full Alignment’ With 'National Values'
Organizers canceled the event just days before thousands were set to descend on Lusaka to discuss issues at the intersection of technology and human rights.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Full house at the @sanders.senate.gov event on 'the existential threat of AI'
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Musk is arguing that OpenAI pivoted to a private entity--but he himself suggested that at various times--either as a standalone entity or one he controlled, as part of Tesla. (To be clear, OpenAI still has a not-for-profit entity today, of course.) www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The cross of Musk is off to an electric start: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Most AI models are trained in English—but only a small percentage of India's 1.4 billion people speak it. India's Bhashini is building sovereign AI infrastructure for Indic languages to close the digital divide, write Sushant Kumar and Ananya Mukherjee, who are external consultants to the project.
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AI’s English Problem—and Why We Should Care
Sushant Kumar and Ananya Mukherjee are external consultants working with Bhashini, India’s sovereign AI language infrastructure.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This book by @himself.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social is a great and fun read--and apparently only $1.99 on Kindle right now.
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Should charities (incl. universities) pay attention to Musk v Altman? I suggest yes: “If Musk is successful, donors may be able to reassert control over the charity, even if they don’t have any contractual rights to do so.” www.the-independent.com/tech/elon-mu...
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Musk seeks "to strip Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of their positions of authority"--but I suggested to Politico that courts are reluctant to do so. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
politico.com
'It is existential’: Elon Musk and Sam Altman duke it out over OpenAI’s founding
A jury is about to weigh whether Sam Altman deceived Elon Musk into funding OpenAI with promises it would operate as a nonprofit for humanity’s benefit. But the legal team for the world’s richest man ...
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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
OpenAI's just published rebuttal to Musk includes his incorporation of a *for-profit* corporation in 2017, supposedly to take over OpenAI--Open Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Inc. openai.com/elon-musk/
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