Tech Legal Brief #18 – The EU’s Digital Laws Should Be Simplified. But By Whom? www.futuristiclawyer.com/tech-legal-b...
Tech Legal Brief #18 – The EU’s Digital Laws Should Be Simplified. But By Whom?
In the previous Tech Legal Brief, we covered the EU’s proposed KIDS Act, a late attempt to turn back the clock on children’s social media addiction. Creating tech regulations in the EU that protect th...
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California Has a Rare Chance To Address the Tech Billionaire Problem www.futuristiclawyer.com/california-h...
California Has a Rare Chance To Address the Tech Billionaire Problem
Editorial note: I noticed that my latest newsletter was only made available to paid members by mistake. Here is the free version. The polls indicate a sweeping blue wave at the midterm elections. In ...
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The Existential Threat to the West Is Our Own Cowardice www.futuristiclawyer.com/the-existent...
The Existential Threat to the West Is Our Own Cowardice
The West is under an existential threat at the moment. But it’s not climate change, AI, the far-right, wars or pandemics. The threat is our own cowardice. The enlightenment ideas of democratic governa...
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The Unholy Alliance on the Bubble to Burst Them All www.futuristiclawyer.com/the-unholy-a...
The Unholy Alliance on the Bubble to Burst Them All
Anthropic’s filing for its upcoming IPO - which will most likely happen in November after the midterms - was leaked to Reuters. The numbers are… interesting. Anthropic made $4.6 billion in 2025 with o...
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Tech Legal Brief 17 – Europe Can Be Ignored Technologically, But Its Tech Regulation Can’t www.futuristiclawyer.com/tech-legal-b...
Tech Legal Brief 17 – Europe Can Be Ignored Technologically, But Its Tech Regulation Can’t
Introduction The title of today's post is inspired by a quote from Luciano Floridi’s paper Rules Without Models: Why Europe Must Build the AI It Regulates: “A decade of rule-making has produced a E...
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Von Der Leyen’s State of the Union Speech 2026 & the Broader Environmental Impacts of Data Centers www.futuristiclawyer.com/von-der-leye...
Von Der Leyen’s State of the Union Speech 2026 & the Broader Environmental Impacts of Data Centers
Ursula Von Der Leyen said in her State of the Union speech to the EU parliament last Wednesday that Europe’s future prosperity and security will greatly depend on how it manages two tipping points: cl...
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What if Claude and Chat Are Secretly Working for the Government? www.futuristiclawyer.com/what-if-clau...
What if Claude and Chat Are Secretly Working for the Government?
In a previous decade, American social media platforms managed to make surveillance seem “sexy”. Sexyveillance. Facebook normalized the idea of people sharing everything about their personal lives onl...
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AI will likely make its biggest impact on the battlefield, sadly. At least right now. In an age with many threats facing EU countries, the question is how we can respond. In this post, I try to answer that question. Leave your thoughts in the comments. www.futuristiclawyer.com/p/how-the-eu...
How the EU Is Preparing for AI-Driven War
Can Europe defend itself in a time of war?
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"If the EU wants to set itself free from the attention economy, once and for all, it must ban targeted advertisement. " Read my new post below and share your thoughts. www.futuristiclawyer.com/p/eu-regulat...
The EU Holds a Regulatory Kill Switch to the Attention Economy
Or how the EU is on the cusp of killing Facebook and Instagram.
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If you are into long reads with substance and discussions about the intersection of tech, law, and policy, check out my recent post! Tech Legal Brief #8 - War Crimes & De-Americanization www.futuristiclawyer.com/p/tech-legal...
Tech Legal Brief #8 - War Crimes & De-Americanization
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I had a blast talking with Meg McNulty about quantum and AI. Can quantum in combination with AI lead to superintelligence? Which new applications will quantum tech lead to and when? What wil dominate the industry? These are some of the questions we discuss. www.futuristiclawyer.com/p/ai-quantum
AI + Quantum = 🤝
With Meg McNulty
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Another week, another post. Here is my understanding of the Brussels Effect in 2025. Feedback and thoughts are welcome, as always. Fighting the Brussels Effect Is Futile www.futuristiclawyer.com/p/fighting-t...
Fighting the Brussels Effect Is Futile
American AI and tech businesses can only continue to flourish if the US government cooperates with European digital lawmakers.
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Very much looking forward to the year ahead. I hope and expect to see a major growth of my newsletter this year, and I will do a lot of network building. If you find my work interesting, have questions, or want to collaborate now is the time to reach out! www.futuristiclawyer.com/p/my-tech-pr...
My Tech Prophecy for 2025
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