By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 9-18-23 House and Senate Democrats have introduced a bill that could take a bite out of Big Tech’s online advertising marketplace by banning so-called surveillance advertising. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), one of the bill’s co-sponsors, made it clear that the bill was clearly aimed at hitting Big Tech in [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 9-15-23 Republicans on the Senate Commerce Committee have released a report they said shows that the Biden Administration’s $42-billion-plus Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program is duplicative of other subsidy programs and ripe for waste, fraud, and abuse, like doling out money to serve unserved locations at the [...]
By Cat Zakrzewski, Cristiano Lima, and David DiMolfetta, washingtonpost.com, 9-14-23 Some of the most powerful tech leaders in the world – including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg – traveled to Capitol Hill for a meeting on artificial intelligence, where they expressed unanimous agreement that the government needs to intervene to [...]
By Eva Dou and Gerrit De Vynck, washingtonpost.com, 9-10-23 The Justice Department finally will take Google to court over its alleged sharp-elbowed tactics on Sept. 12, in a landmark trial that marks the department’s first antitrust case against a major tech company in more than 20 years. Filed in 2020 under the Trump administration, [...]
By Cristiano Lima, washingtonpost.com, 9-7-23 The Senate on Sept. 7 confirmed Anna Gomez, President Biden’s pick for the Federal Communications Commission, ending a lengthy partisan split at the regulatory agency and giving Democrats the power to carry out major agenda items. Senators voted 55-43 to confirm Gomez, an FCC veteran who is a communications [...]
By Cat Zakrzewski, washingtonpost.com, 8-14-23 The Biden administration on Aug. 14 told the Supreme Court it should overturn the 5th Circuit Court’s decision to uphold a controversial Texas social media law, calling on the High Court to take up a pair of cases that could have broad implications for the future of online speech. [...]
By Gerrit De Vynck, washingtonpost.com, 8-4-23 A federal judge said the Department of Justice’s landmark case alleging Google’s dominance over the online search business is anti-competitive can go ahead, throwing out some of the government’s claims but ruling that a trial is still necessary. Google had asked for the judge to make a ruling [...]
By Cat Zakrzewski, washingtonpost.com, 7-26-23 Leading artificial intelligence companies on July 26 unveiled plans to launch an industry-led body to develop safety standards for rapidly advancing technology, outpacing Washington policymakers who are still debating whether the U.S. government needs its own AI regulator. Google, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic introduced the Frontier Model Forum, [...]
By Cat Zakrzewski, washingtonpost.com, 7-21-23 During President Biden’s 50-year Washington political career, he has witnessed a slew of innovations, including the invention of the cellphone, the first Mac computer, the World Wide Web, and social media. But rapid advances in artificial intelligence, highlighted by the recent release of ChatGPT, have stunned the seasoned president…. [...]
By Gerrit De Vynck, Elahe Izadi, and Paul Farhi, washingtonpost.com, 7-20-23 Google is in discussions with news publishers about building and selling artificial intelligence tools that could help reporters and editors produce written journalism, a potential major acceleration of the practice of using automated tools to produce news content. Google has been presenting the [...]