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Hallo again, it’s our old friend FUD www.wired.com/story/opena...

OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal

AI leaders worry antitrust law could stand in the way of what they view as an increasingly urgent push to coordinate a slowdown in AI development.

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I’m surprised and disappointed at the absence of plans for a future FTC. You can’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again (especially when blocked by SCOTUS), so what comes next? I’m reminded of this Milton Friedman paraphrased quote:

This Reddit v SerpAPI weirdness gets weirder, w Proskauer submitting secret letters to the judge. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.u...

Another top DOJ antitrust lawyer from Google Search (and other cases) bites the dust - Adam Severt announced his resignation from gov on LI. He had been at DOJ for 22 years.

Interesting. Even Judge Mehta is raising eyebrows at the TC slow walking. He’s set deadlines for another joint filing AND a status conference for next week. I can’t attend, hope someone will live tweet. TC = Turtle Crawl

FTC throws in the towel on TurboTax bogus advertising claims. Or, more accurately, says “whatev” to Intuit’s motion to dismiss. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.u...

Mind boggled. In Reddit v SerpAPI et al, defendant Perplexity files a… er…perplexing motion to force Proskauer to be its law firm. The firm declined to represent because it previously worked for Reddit. What a strange procedural posture…. The opening sentences give…

More delay in Google Search remedy. I wonder if the TC knows it is being played. And I wonder who their foot-dragging lawyer is. It would all be nauseating if it weren’t so predictable.

Megan Gray @megangray.bsky.social · 6d ago

I recently contested a parking ticket in DC. The adjudicator denied my position by citing camera photos that supppsedly contradicted my claim. Not speed camera photos, so were these Flock cameras that the adjudicator had access to?

Nearly a decade after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, New Mexico alone is taking Facebook to trial apnews.com/article/fac...

Nearly a decade after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, New Mexico alone is taking Facebook to trial

Opening statements in the Facebook trial over privacy concerns linked to the 2016 election began in New Mexico on Wednesday.

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The show HIGH MAINTENANCE is soooooo good. Can’t believe I missed it when first broadcast.

These redactions of open court proceedings have become astonishing common in the AI cases. New pubs, send journos to seemingly low priority hearings!

Smart glasses regulation: so telling (lol not telling) that this is for a SOLID light when a blinking one would be just as easy and much more conspicuous www.politico.com/newsletters...

Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 2w ago

Good overview of congressional transcribed interviews www.wiley.law/alert-Overs...

Oversight Risks Behind Closed Doors: Preparing for Congressional Transcribed Interviews

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NEW: An ongoing class action lawsuit vs. Meta — which accuses Meta of misrepresenting its privacy practices regarding its Meta AI Glasses — was amended to include expansive new claims from "bystanders" alleging that Meta violated their privacy without their consent. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Meta Hit With Sweeping New Claims That Its AI Glasses Violated the Consent of "Millions" of Bystanders in Searing Lawsuit

A class action lawsuit against Meta was amended yesterday to include a new class of "bystanders," who claim Meta violated their privacy.

futurism.com

Huh? Pretty clear there will be NO TikTok CONSENT ORDER, what are they thinking? “As attorneys and companies await release of the consent order behind the $400 million fine” news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and...

TikTok’s ‘Unusual’ Kids Privacy Settlement Sidelines FTC Role

The Federal Trade Commission pursued an aggressive, years-long case against TikTok over its handling of children’s data. But when it came time to settle, the agency was nowhere to be seen.

news.bloomberglaw.com

Stanley is BigTech’s Waldo, popping up all sorts of places. No prior instance of US claiming an interest in copyright/fair use case. 200 years. But hey everything is “national security” now. If everything is, then nothing is — and we are less safe. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.u...

How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together State attorneys general spent months in negotiations. Then, as its legal losses mounted, the social media giant’s new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to the table. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/...

How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together

State attorneys general spent months in negotiations. Then, as its legal losses mounted, the social media giant’s new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to the table.

nytimes.com

Great insight from @chapell68

AN AMERICAN CITY, WITH TROOPS ON ITS STREETS Since the country’s founding, deployments of soldiers to U.S. soil have been exceedingly rare. But residents of Washington, D.C., are living in a new normal. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/...

An American City, With Troops on Its Streets

Since the country’s founding, deployments of soldiers to U.S. soil have been exceedingly rare. But residents of Washington, D.C., are living in a new normal.

theatlantic.com

😳 Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’ Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies www.theguardian.com/us-news/202...

Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’

Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies

theguardian.com

Big punch back in Reddit v SerpAPI, now antitrust battle w counterclaims storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.u...