IT'S MONDAY, AND THIS IS DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and hope many of you are heading back to work after a restful (if hot) summer break. There's a lot to dig into for the Fall — buckle up.

— French lawmakers and US tech companies don't agree on much. But both believe efforts to protect children from harm on social media are undercooked.

— Washington is re-using its TikTok playbook to go after Chinese open-weight AI models. That does a disservice to the artificial intelligence industry in the United States.

— Roughly one-third of the English-language webpageshave been written or edited via AI since OpenAI released Chat-GPT in late 2022.

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