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For many people, the high streets they grew up with have been hollowed out and become unrecognisable over decades of decline.

— Andy Burnham said this while outlining plans to revive Britain’s high streets.

"But I know that using AI to generate nude images of people against their will is appalling. There are plenty of worthy debates to have about AI policy. This is not one of them. AI nudification robs the target of their dignity and can cause immense harm on an emotional, personal, and professional level," Ellison said.— Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General, in a statement about xAI's lawsuit against Minnesota's nudification law

"This is a critical first win in our case to ensure this megamerger never sees the light of day," California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement following Monday’s order. "History tells the tale of what happens when a few people have great power over markets that are central to Americans’ lives: fewer opportunities for more people, worse products and services for all people."— Rob Bonta, California Attorney General, in a statement after Monday’s order.

They're going to be forced into the private market in order to fill the gap, and the private market is much harder to secure financing.

— Aissa Canchola Bañez, director of policy at Protect Borrowers, speaking to TIME about how the new loan limits could push borrowers toward private lenders.

Ask any American what our citizenship rule is and they’ll tell you everyone born here is a citizen alike. That rule was enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment to put it out of the reach of any government official to destroy.

— Cecillia Wang, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, as quoted in The New Yorker

This debate will continue as the technology advances and rightsholders and AI music platforms develop licensing models. Tidal’s priority is ensuring royalties go to original works directly produced, written, and performed by people. We will therefore not knowingly attribute royalties to music we identify as wholly AI-generated.

— Tidal said on a recently published policy page regarding AI music.

regrettably and tragically extinguishes the light of the torch of the Statue of Liberty.

— Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in dissent to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the metering policy for asylum seekers at the border

The causes of death are yet to be determined, but the heatwave is the leading line of inquiry.

— Hélène Mourges, the prosecutor in the town of Carpentras, said.

Every parent can see it with their own eyes. Social media is making children unhappy.

— Keir Starmer, Britain's Prime Minister, at a news conference announcing government action to protect children online.

“Every American, including a sitting or former Vice President, has a right to privacy in the personal conversations he has within his own home,” Biden’s lawyers wrote in a federal court filing in Washington on Tuesday night. “And when the U.S. Department of Justice obtains that private information through a criminal investigation, the Department bears a particular responsibility to protect it from disclosure.”— Biden's lawyers, in a federal court filing in Washington on Tuesday night

This is not self-defense.

— UN experts, including Farida Shaheed, Ben Saul, and Francesca Albanese

An estimated 90% of Iran's economy is fueled by international trade by sea. In less than 36 hours since the blockade was implemented, US forces have completely halted all economic trade going into and out of Iran by sea.

— Adm. Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), said in a statement on social media.

malicious actors have exploited security gaps in foreign-made routers to attack American households, disrupt networks, enable espionage, and facilitate intellectual property theft…

— FCC (Federal Communications Commission) — statement quoted in the article about the router ban