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.
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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…
New Jersey’s War on Pricing Software Won’t Build More Apartments
By Alden Abbott
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…
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…