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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.

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Our third annual Live at TrustCon recording of Ctrl-Alt-Speech! Ben was back this year! Mike and Ben were joined live on stage with Kat Duffy, senior fellow for digital and cyberspace policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and Zoe Darme, Director for Trust, Knowledge and Information Products at Google. They cover:

• Security incident disclosure — July 2026 (Hugging Face)
• OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation (OpenAI)
• An OpenAI test model escaped and broke into a real company’s servers (CNN)
• France Joins a Global Move Toward Restricting Social Media for Children (NY Times)
• xAI sues user for exploiting AI tool to sexualise minors (Al Jazeera)

Special thanks to the Trust & Safety Professionals Association (TSPA) and all the work they do each year in putting on TrustCon, and for allowing us to host the live podcast as the closing session again this year.

Filed Under: ai, artificial intelligence, content moderation, france, trust and safety, trustcon
Companies: hugging face, openai, xai