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Australia wants to lead the big tech crackdown
It is more likely to be an example of how not to go about banning social media | Asia (2024)
TikTok is bringing its dedicated STEM feed to Europe | TechCrunch
As TikTok continues to face increased scrutiny, the company is signaling its commitment to fostering educational content on its app. From the re... (2024)
AI Regulation: EU lawmakers deal on 'global first' AI rules | TechCrunch
After marathon 'final' talks which stretched to almost three days European Union lawmakers have tonight clinched a political deal on a risk-based A... (2023)
California cracks down on carbon. Business and the climate. Emissionary zeal
California’s crackdown on carbon will have international repercussions. It is not just attacking big oil. Big everything is in the line of fire | B... (2023)
Why the EU will not remain the world’s digital über-regulator
It is not a big enough player in AI | Europe (2023)
Singapore is the world leader in selling cultivated meat
Singapore and food security. The home of cultivated meat. Singapore has also become the global launchpad for foods made through precision fermenta... (2023)
Banking. The financial system is slipping into state control
Government control the banking sector; What will it look like after the next spell of instability? | Finance & economics (2023)
The world won’t decarbonise fast enough unless renewables make real money | The Economist
Governments must accept that green power is pricey | Leaders (2023)
Europe Prepares to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet | WIRED
The Digital Markets Act will force Big Tech platforms to break open their walled gardens in 2023, says the EU’s new ambassador to Silicon Valley. (2022)
Visa will not acquire Plaid after running into regulatory wall • TechCrunch
Visa and Plaid called off their agreement this afternoon, ending the consumer credit giant’s takeover of the data-focused fintech API startup. The ... (2021)
A quick guide to the most important AI law you've never heard of | MIT Technology Review
The European Union is planning new legislation aimed at curbing the worst harms associated with artificial intelligence. (2022)
Why a16z Opposes Secretary Mnuchin’s FinCEN Midnight Crypto Rulemaking
A Treasury Department proposal bypasses established rulemaking procedures, fails to solve the real issues, and threatens to harm U.S. innovation. (2021)
Schumpeter - Bad News. Should big tech save newspapers?
No. They need to save themselves (2020)
Uber CEO on the fight in California: ‘We can’t go out and hire 50,000 people overnight’
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company is not capable of employing all of its drivers in California, as it was ordered to do by a state judge.... (2020)
Apple, Epic, and the App Store
The App Store is not one thing: it is installation, payments, and customer management; the further Apple gets from iOS, the worse its actions are f... (2020)
Telegram to pay SEC fine of $18.5 million and return $1.2 billion to investors as it dissolves TON
Pavel Durov’s grand cryptocurrency dreams for his Telegram messaging service are ending with an $18.5 million civil settlement with the U.S. Securi... (2020)
States are leaning toward a push to break up Google's ad tech business
Critics have said that Google bundles its ad tools so that rivals can't afford to match its offerings and that its operation of search results, You... (2020)
Google and Facebook must pay media for content reuse, says Australia
The Australia government has said it will adopt a mandatory code to require tech giants such as Google and Facebook to pay local media for reusing ... (2020)
Reading Between the Lines: SEC, Telegram, and Rule 144
Hidden in the SEC’s complaint against Telegram is an interesting nuance with potential implications for the broader private equity markets. (2020)
He Jiankui faces three years in prison for CRISPR babies - MIT Technology Review
The Chinese scientist and two associates were sentenced after a secret trial. (2019)
France proposes upload filter law, “forgets” user rights (2019)
When the European Union adopted the new copyright directive, including its infamous Article 17, the upload filtering provision, it gave Member Stat... (2019)
No Libra-style digital currencies without rules, say EU finance ministers – TechCrunch
European Union finance ministers have agreed to a de facto ban on the launch in the region of so-called global “stablecoins” such as Facebook’s pla... (2019)
The trading system’s referee is about to leave the field - The twilight of the WTO - The Economist
Disputes are bound to get nastier “... The wto’s appellate body is one of those institutions that most people have never heard of, but which wil... (2019)
Juul will stop selling mango, creme, fruit and cucumber pod flavors in the U.S. – TechCrunch
Juul has stopped selling a number of its flavored nicotine products — mango, creme, fruit and cucumber — in the U.S., pending a review by the U.S. ... (2019)
Europe’s top court says active consent is needed for tracking cookies – TechCrunch (2019)
Europe’s top court has ruled that pre-checked consent boxes for dropping cookies are not legally valid. Consent must be obtained prior to storing o... (2019)
Apple’s new App Store website takes aim at antitrust, anti-competitive claims – TechCrunch
Just ahead of WWDC, Apple has launched a new App Store website in the hopes of better defending itself against recent antitrust and anti-competitiv... (2019)
Congress wants to protect you from biased algorithms, deepfakes, and other bad AI - MIT Technology Review
Only a few legislators really know what they’re talking about, but it’s a start. (2019)
A Regulatory Framework for the Internet – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Regulators need to stop blindly regulating “the Internet” and instead understand that every part of the Internet stack is different, and only one p... (2019)
UK to regulate social networks to curb the spread of harmful content
The UK is proposing a move to regulate social media platforms, and hold them accountable for the spread of like misinformation, and terrorist propa... (2019)
Why big tech should fear Europe - The future of big tech - The Economist
“THE BIRTHDAY of a new world is at hand.” Ever since Thomas Paine penned those words in 1776, America has seen itself as the land of the new—and Eu... (2019)
Why Electric Planes are Inevitably Coming
Why Electric Planes are Inevitably Coming (2021)
Podcast - Section 230 CDA: Content Moderation, Free Speech, the Internet - Andreessen Horowitz
Listen to this episode from 16 Minutes News by a16z on Spotify. In this special "3x" episode of our news show -- where we cover the he... (2020)
YC podcast #97 - David Hua and Vincent Ning, an episode from Y Combinator on Spotify
David Hua is CEO and cofounder of Meadow. Meadow makes retail and delivery software for dispensaries. They were part of the Winter 2015 batch. You ... (2018)
Should Facebook be regulated?, an episode from The New York Times on Spotify
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a second day of hearings on the company’s mishandling of dat... (2018)