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Why a new anti-revenge porn law has free speech experts alarmed
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . May 24, 2025
Privacy and digital rights advocates are raising alarms over a law that many would expect them to cheer: a federal crackdown on revenge porn and

Last Week to exhibit your startup at Sessions: AI | TechCrunch
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . May 20, 2025
If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to showcase your newest innovation to a massive AI community, this is it! You have until this

AI startup Cohere acquires Ottogrid, a platform for conducting market research
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . May 16, 2025
AI startup Cohere has acquired Ottogrid, a Vancouver-based platform that develops enterprise tools for automating certain kinds of high-level market research. Sully Omarr, one of

Tesla’s robotaxi plans have the attention of federal investigators
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . May 12, 2025
Federal safety investigators have sent Tesla a detailed list of questions on its upcoming robotaxi service as part of an investigation into how the company’s

Ex-Synapse CEO reportedly trying to raise $100M for his new humanoid robotics venture
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . May 8, 2025
Sankaet Pathak’s last startup, fintech Synapse, filed for bankruptcy in 2024 amid issues with partner Evolve Bank & Trust. Tens of millions of dollars in

Trump says he’s willing to delay TikTok ban again
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . May 4, 2025
President Donald Trump has already delayed a TikTok ban twice, and he said Sunday that he’s willing to do it again. Axios reports that during

Pinterest launches new tools to fight AI slop
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . April 30, 2025
Pinterest says it’s finally going to do something about the AI slop that’s taken over its platform. After an increasing volume of complaints that AI-generated

Google will stop supporting early Nest thermostats on October 25
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . April 26, 2025
Google announced this week that beginning on October 25, it will no longer support or release software updates for the first and second generation Nest

A Chinese AI video startup appears to be blocking politically sensitive images
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . April 22, 2025
A China-based startup, Sand AI, has released an openly licensed video-generating AI model that’s garnered praise from entrepreneurs like Microsoft Research Asia founding director Kai-Fu

White House replaces covid.gov website with ‘lab leak’ theory
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . April 18, 2025
The government-run website covid.gov used to host information about COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and treatment. Now, under President Trump’s purview, the page redirects to a White