When rents rise, blaming the algorithm is easier than building apartments. New Jersey has chosen the easier target.
On July 20, Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed the Forbidding the Algorithmic Inflation of Rent Act, or FAIR Act, declaring that landlords who
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Europe’s Privacy Paradox: Fort Knox for Search Data, a Checkbox for Your Phone
By Dirk Auer
Brussels has developed a curious theory of digital privacy. Anonymous search queries need audits, screening, and a security cordon. Your messages, microphone, and screen can make do with a checkbox.
That is the logic running through two decisions the European…
The SEARCH Act Copies Europe’s Homework—and Its Mistakes
By Satya Marar
Some in Congress want to make online search more competitive by deciding in advance how search competition should work.
Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) introduced the Securing Enforcement of Americans’ Right to Competition at Home (SEARCH) Act…
Europe Wants Tech Champions, Then Makes Them Share the Trophy
By Alden Abbott
Europe wants its own technology champions. It just seems less comfortable with what champions look like once they arrive.
The European Commission’s latest Digital Markets Act (DMA) decisions capture that tension. Europe wants more innovation, investment, and globally competitive digital…
Brazil’s Gatekeeper Bill Gets a Tuneup, Not a Rethink
Brazil may soon become the first country in the Americas to regulate digital platforms before they do anything wrong. Bill 4,675/2025 would let the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) designate large technology companies as having “systemic relevance” and impose…
A Patent, a Blood Test, and 20 Years of Waiting
A blood test now helps doctors decide, in about 15 minutes, whether a patient with a suspected brain injury needs a CT scan. It took about 20 years to get there.
That gap between scientific promise and clinical use tells…
Lightning in a Bottleneck: How Regulatory Gridlock Is Choking America’s Energy Boom
By Alden Abbott
America’s power grid has plenty of new customers and no shortage of new ideas. What it lacks is a regulatory system capable of connecting the two.
Artificial intelligence data centers, advanced manufacturing, and cryptocurrency operations are driving electricity demand sharply…
The Cost of Holding Up Broadband
America’s multibillion-dollar broadband push rests on an unglamorous piece of infrastructure: the utility pole. Fiber may carry the future, but first someone has to pay for the wood holding it up.
Broadband providers rarely own the poles their networks use.…
Private Credit, Public Panic: Why Life Insurers Are Stronger Than the Headlines Suggest
Private credit has become the financial system’s latest designated villain: opaque, fast-growing, and—depending on the headline—one bad quarter away from dragging insurers, banks, and retirees down with it.
For the past two years, warnings about life insurers’ private-credit investments have…
The Fatal Conceit Gets a GPU Cluster: Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Socialize AI
The American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act rests on a sweeping claim about the ownership of value created by artificial intelligence. Because AI models are trained on data generated by the public, the bill treats the resulting gains as a…