👤 Tosin Akintola

2026-09-30 · Reason · Politics

Trump Wants AI Companies To Police Themselves. His FTC Isn't Waiting.

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2026-09-22 · Reason · Economy/Business

Paramount Bends the Knee to Rob Bonta

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2026-09-24 · Reason · Health

OpenAI Preaches AI Safety. The Australia Incident Shows What It Practices.

14 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left

2026-09-14 · Reason · Technology

AI Executives Want International Regulation. They Could Just Slow Down Themselves.

11 outlets covered this event

2026-09-17 · Reason · Politics

Trump's $1.4 Billion Crypto Haul Sinks the Senate's Crypto Bill

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2026-10-08 · Reason · Sports

The NFL Chooses States, Not the CFTC, in Fight Over Prediction Market Regulation

5 outlets covered this event

2026-09-03 · Reason

🔮 After ruling in 2025 that Google was guilty of "willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power" in the digital ad market, Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia on Wednesday rejected a Justice Department proposal that would have forced Google to sell off parts of its advertising business as punishment. mixed

2026-09-04 · Reason

🔮 On Tuesday, the Justice Department sent a statement of interest arguing the Times' position is "inconsistent with basic copyright law principles" and could "severely hamper 'the Progress of Science and useful Arts.'" mixed

2026-09-06 · Reason

🔮 Trump claims the tax break for Hollywood would "benefit ALL of America," and that any money "spent on Tax Incentives will be made up tenfold by the money pouring into the Treasury's coffers." Subsidizing movie production is not a new idea. assertive

2026-09-14 · Reason

🔮 For a small fee, a Wayfair partner will even pick up your old mattress and set up the replacement. assertive

2026-09-14 · Reason

🔮 While he admits that "some forms of coordination that would be impactful for pacing are legally challenging, and will require government support," Amodei states that for the regulatory regime to work, America and "other democratic governments" must "attempt to coordinate with authoritarian governments, to the extent this is possible." assertive

2026-09-15 · Reason

🔮 If the U.S. wins the AI race against China, it might have South Korea to thank. mixed

2026-09-17 · Reason

🔮 A failed Senate procedural vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on Tuesday may have saved crypto consumers from a questionable regulatory bill backed by industry insiders. assertive

2026-09-18 · Reason

🔮 She notes that "while a cellphone search may not be as physically intrusive as a strip search, it is much closer on the spectrum to a strip search than it is to the search of luggage because of the amount of information it reveals." assertive

2026-09-22 · Reason

🔮 The deal reportedly includes a "new board for CBS News and CNN to ensure editorial independence" as well as a $30 million penalty—90 percent of which would go to the company's employees—for each movie Paramount fails to release as part of its promise to produce 30 films per year, according to CNBC. assertive

2026-09-22 · Reason

🔮 However, the Trump administration has cut much of the voluntary funding sent to the U.N., and the president's 2027 budget would eliminate funding for most U.N. bodies, including its regular budget and peacekeeping operations. assertive

2026-09-24 · Reason

🔮 In an incident that began in May and ended in June, thousands of OpenAI agents hacked into a German wiki site and used it as a message board to cheat on assigned tasks. assertive

2026-09-25 · Reason

🔮 In another new amicus brief, the Constitutional Accountability Center argues that the border search exception runs counter to the Court's ruling in Riley, allowing federal agents to "rummage at will through the records stored on those devices," effectively giving the federal government the power to "indiscriminately search and seize the 'papers' of the people." assertive

2026-09-30 · Reason

🔮 In Harlow v. Fitzgerald (1982), the Court established that government officials are entitled to qualified immunity when their conduct does not "violate clearly established constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known." assertive

2026-09-30 · Reason

🔮 On Wednesday, the New York Post reported that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) would be "ramping up a sweeping probe of Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier labs to uncover the potential dangers their technology poses to consumers, and plans to slap the tech titans with formal demands, similar to subpoenas, to turn over information." assertive

2026-10-07 · Reason

🔮 And that might be the tamest idea in this sprawling populist platform. assertive

2026-10-08 · Reason

🔮 In its brief, the NFL points to platforms such as Kalshi for being unwilling to adopt the league's list of prohibited wagers to guard against market manipulation and insider trading and requiring anyone wagering on sports to be at least 21 years old. assertive

2026-10-15 · Reason

🔮 The U.S. income tax rate is low compared to other high-income countries, so Americans living overseas typically pay more in local taxes than they would here. assertive