📸🇬🇧 Encode’s @_NathanCalvin in London at the Athens Roundtable on AI and the Rule of Law! At the event, Nathan discussed California’s new AI law and how our work in the U.S. fits within the global AI policy landscape.

“Every emotional moment becomes suspect ... It creates this low-level paranoia within people that kills the spontaneity and magic of social media.” Encode’s @KashyapRajesh14 in TIME this morning, on how AI-generated videos are disrupting our feeds:

Governor Newsom at an event in NY: "And we have a bill -- forgive me, it's on my desk -- that we think strikes the right balance and we worked with industry, but we didn't submit to industry."

Today’s a big day. We just turned 5! 5⃣🎂 In July 2020, we were scrappy high schoolers across Instagram group chats. Now, our young, fast-moving team is shaping how policymakers and the public navigate AI — in DC, SF, and beyond. In the last year alone, we’ve: ✅ Led historic coalitions to block a 10-year freeze on state AI laws ✅ Helped pass the first federal law on deepfake porn ✅ Helped pass the first guardrails for AI in nuclear ✅ Sponsored landmark bills like SB 1047, SB 53, and the RAISE Act ... and more. We’re pretty good at politics, but it’s not all we do. In Chapter 6, we’ll double down on preparing young people for a world with powerful AI — starting with reimagining their careers. We say this every year, and it’s still true: we’re just getting started. If you joined us on the road from 2020 to here, thank you for making Encode possible. If you’re joining us now, welcome. Let’s get to work. 💪

The AI Moratorium has been stripped out of the Big Beautiful Bill in an overwhelming 99-1 vote. We thank Senator @MarshaBlackburn, kids online safety advocates, civil society organizations, and hundreds of grassroots volunteers that came together to stop this.

Over 130 organizations working on children's safety are clear: NO version of the moratorium is acceptable.

Today we released a letter from 130+ organizations in opposition to the new AI moratorium text. The new provision still handicaps states, leaves children without protections, and puts billions in BEAD funding under threat. No version of preemption is acceptable.

Proponents of the moratorium have tried every way they can to jam it into the budget. After waves and waves of backlash it looks like it's finally going down.

The reckless AI moratorium puts billions of dollars of BEAD funding at stake across all 50 states. See how much is threatened and what laws it would strip away in your state at stopaiban.org

Today we hosted a youth-led rally with @DesignItForUs in support of tech legislation like the RAISE Act in the New York State Capitol. Young people and lawmakers turned out, committed to not making the same mistakes on AI that we made on social media.

Thankful to the 15+ Senators and Assembly Members who showed up with young people to support common sense tech guardrails in New York.