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Posted inPolitics
This Election, the Intelligence Could Be Artificial
With Congress slow-rolling AI regulations, voters need to verify before sharing.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Will Panic on Wall Street Convince Jerome Powell to Do His Job?
The Federal Reserve should have cut rates months ago. Now it might be too late.
Posted inTAP
Federal Judge: Google Is a Monopoly
Today on TAP: The Justice Department just won its case against Google.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Anti-Monopoly Crusader Funded by Jeff Bezos
A mailer supporting New Hampshire House candidate Maggie Goodlander is from a pro-veteran PAC that Bezos and his parents gave millions to.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
CrowdSuck
How did software designed to protect customers from paralyzing system disruptions instead cause what may be the most destructive software glitch in recorded history? A 2018 antitrust case holds some clues.
Posted inEconomic Policy
FTC Opens Surveillance Pricing Inquiry
After a Prospect investigation into companies charging different prices to customers for the same products, the agency wants to learn more.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Unknown Toll of the AI Takeover
As artificial intelligence guzzles water supplies and jacks up consumers’ electricity rates, why isn’t anyone tracking the resources being consumed?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Government Created the Most Profitable Company in America
Now, the Biden administration has the opportunity to slash the astronomical profit margins of VeriSign, the obscure company making a mint on annual .com website registrations.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Built by AI Hype
As it dominates the market for AI chips, Nvidia was briefly the most valuable company on Earth. How it got there is the subject of a Justice Department investigation.
