Nigeria has looked south and seen a $40 million payday for the press. The trouble is that it misread both the price tag and the fine print—and its attempt to collect may leave Nigerian publishers with fewer readers and no
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Open Weights, Closed Ranks: The AI Manifesto War
By Mario Zúñiga
The AI industry has entered its manifesto era. Executives, researchers, and employees are issuing rival plans to keep advanced models safe. The fine print contains a less advertised question: Would those plans protect the public—or protect today’s leaders from the…
Much Ado About No News: Australia’s Latest Plan to Make Platforms Pay
Australia’s latest plan to make digital platforms pay for journalism has an unusual feature. A platform can owe money even if it carries no journalism at all. The government calls this an “incentive.”
On Aug. 3, the Australian government finalized…
The FCC Is Right To Keep Every Band on the Table for Direct-to-Device
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At its August 6 open meeting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is scheduled to vote on…
From Google Fines to French Wine: The Trade Case Against the DMA
By Dirk Auer
Brussels has spent two years testing how much regulatory pain Washington will tolerate before reaching for the tariff book. President Donald Trump may have supplied the answer. His threatened Section 301 investigation—a process that allows the United States to retaliate…
Brussels Tries to Fix the GDPR Without Making It Worse
Brussels has spent years proving that the easiest way to “fix” the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is to give more power to the institutions that made it unworkable. The Digital Omnibus initially looked ready to continue that tradition.…
Pulling the 39% Thread: Why the FCC Must Fix More Than the Broadcast Cap
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 39% broadcast-ownership cap is a rule for a three-network world trying to govern a streaming one. Retiring it makes sense. Retiring it by itself does not.
For four decades, the FCC has barred any company…
The FTC’s AI Accuracy Statement Needs a Fact Check
A policy statement about accuracy should, at minimum, be precise. The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Proposed Policy Statement Concerning the Suppression of Accuracy in Artificial Intelligence Systems (AI Policy Statement) struggles with that assignment.
The International Center for…
Open Models, Closed Minds: AI Policy Keeps Regulating the Wrong Thing
Artificial intelligence has found a new way to make policymakers nervous. The latest fight concerns less what AI can do than who may build it, copy it, distribute it, and decide when those activities become a security threat. That fight…
The Crime of Winning: How Europe’s DMA Punishes Google for Competing
By Lazar Radic
Brussels has found a new way to punish success. Today, the European Commission fined Google €890 million under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for two familiar business practices—featuring its own products and charging for customers its platform helps attract.
The…