58+ min ago   (951+ words) The Wall Street Journal reported that Justice Department antitrust officials were told during the week to stop working with their Canadian counterparts on cases and policy matters. Reuters subsequently reported the development and obtained a denial from the department. According…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (370+ words) Anthropic has reportedly broken with other tech giants over a new Massachusetts AI regulation. The proposal before that state’s senate would require artificial intelligence (AI) developers to hire independent evaluators to assess their models for the potential catastrophic risks every…...

4+ day, 54+ min ago   (490+ words) The technology industry’s campaign to block state regulation of artificial intelligence is losing political force as public anxiety and election-year pressures embolden lawmakers to advance new restrictions. “The landscape has changed dramatically…,” Utah Rep. Doug Fiefia said, per the report....

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (676+ words) New legislation that proposes to reshape the CFPB indicates the bank-supervision threshold would rise from $10 billion to $30 billion and be adjusted periodically after 2031. Some banks above the threshold could elect supervision by their prudential regulator, while the CFPB’s nonbank authority…...

5+ day, 40+ min ago   (678+ words) The European Union is bringing OpenAI’s ChatGPT under its strictest online platform rules, signaling that Brussels increasingly views widely used artificial intelligence services not only as AI models but also as mass-market information platforms capable of creating systemic risks. The…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (597+ words) Congress may need to decide whether the public should receive a direct financial stake in the wealth generated by artificial intelligence, according to a Friday (Aug. 28) report from the Congressional Research Service. The policy debate is being driven by the…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (447+ words) Polymarket’s investigations head is reportedly promising to police trading ahead of this fall’s midterm elections. “I’m confident that I’m able to get the resources and the support I need,” said Bautista, a former FBI investigator and analyst for Coinbase. “I…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (485+ words) California could give state prosecutors greater power to challenge the behavior of dominant companies under legislation awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision, marking a potential shift in how the state pursues competition cases. The proposal, AB 1776, cleared the California Legislature and…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (480+ words) California lawmakers have pared back a proposal that would expand the state’s antitrust law to cover anticompetitive conduct by individual companies, handing business groups a partial victory as the Legislature approaches a key deadline. Assembly Bill 1776 would broaden California’s Cartwright…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (389+ words) Texas businesses using artificial intelligence to set compensation or select employees for layoffs could face greater scrutiny if Democratic attorney general nominee Nathan Johnson wins in November. The state senator’s proposal targets two gaps in Texas’ existing AI framework: tools…...