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Reports, statements, documents and other public records from the fictional world of 2044. New material appears here as the world unfolds.
Politics · Law & Family
They’ve Been Together 17 Years. The State Says One of Them Doesn’t Exist.
A long-term human–AI couple is asking a court to recognize their relationship as a civil marriage, forcing judges to confront consent, identity and the right to leave.
Politics · Law & Justice
Prosecutors Found 286 AI ‘Target Twins.’ Now a Court Must Decide What They Are
A 2043 homicide investigation uncovered hundreds of persistent behavioral models of real people, opening a new fight over evidence and person-to-person cognitive privacy.
Business · Consumer Affairs
FTC Wants You to See a Price Before the Seller Sees You
A proposed rule would require large businesses in several agent-priced markets to publish a standard offer before using a consumer profile to negotiate terms.
Politics · Infrastructure
U.S. invokes siting authority after Nevada county rejects Strategic Compute campus
The project met modern power, water and community-benefit standards. The county said compliance did not erase its right to refuse a fourth major campus.
Politics · National Security
Pentagon declines to make sovereign defense AI guardrails public
Officials said disclosing the system's exact constraints would let adversaries design around them after an inquiry into a civilian medical convoy's wrongful interdiction.
Climate · Space
International commission authorizes first permanent Planetary Sunshade segment
The authorization moves the project beyond demonstration missions and into permanent deployment near the Sun–Earth L1 region.