MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter covers several tech stories: courts are seeing a surge in AI-generated legal filings that have more than doubled since 2023, raising questions about chatbot rights and liability for bad legal advice. Google is backing a virtual power plant project on the US's largest grid, paying consumers to reduce electricity use to free up capacity for data centers. Other highlights include EU legislation to reduce Big Tech dependence, Five Eyes warnings about Chinese LinkedIn espionage, AI CEOs calling for bioweapons legislation, Reddit manipulation of AI search results, Meta's delayed Muse Spark model, Monterey Park becoming the first US city to ban data centers, and Quantinuum's $1.68B IPO.
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