PolicyLM-1.7B is a small, open-weights model that reads your content policy and returns a score for every category in under 100 ms, at classifier speed and cost.

Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

An editorial developed in partnership with Helix

The need-to-know developments shaping digital platforms, online speech and internet safety - edition #356

As anyone who has read Techdirt for any length of time knows full well, there’s been a years-long campaign to demonize kids and social media. Never mind that actual experts have said the data doesn…

The United States filed an application to intervene in the captioned cases, X Internet and X Holdings v. Commission, Case No. T-114/26 and Musk v. Commission, Case No. T-121/26, before the General Cou...

ALT: Hamsters Say One Of Us

<div> Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is now capable of creating realistic-looking images and videos with just a text prompt. This capacity has been mi

Analysts and advocates spent the days following the settlement considering the balance of what the parties involved won and lost, writes Dean Jackson.

NoteThis is a pre-release! We would appreciate early testing and feedback of these updates to help us validate the stable 1.1.0 release. The world’s first free, open source child safety infrastruc...

Danny Tobey, Ashley Carr, and Michael Atleson from DLA Piper summarize key AI bills passed in this California legislative session.

Part 2 of the apgard Youth AI Safety Benchmark series

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Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds one section of report includes links to academic articles that do not exist, but authors deny the references were made up by AI

Washington (August 5, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science,...