The threat of a TikTok ban is driving Americans to Duolingo to learn Chinese
The impending possibility of a national TikTok ban, to be formally decided by the Supreme Court on Sunday, has seen US app users respond in some unusual ways. Last March, after a push notification urg...
TikTok, on the brink of death, could enjoy a miraculous recovery
Less than a year ago, a bipartisan group of lawmakers agreed (a rare statement to see!) that TikTok was such an unspeakable threat to American security that it had to be outlawed or sold to an America...
Is the DEA sabotaging a recommendation to reclassify cannabis?
The federal effort to reschedule marijuana has officially been handed to the incoming Trump administration. An in-house judge at the Drug Enforcement Administration on Monday canceled a hearing set ne...
White House executive order offers up federal sites for AI data centers
With only days left in his administration, President Biden issued another AI executive order as part of his effort to make development of the technology a national priority. The new order directs the ...
OpenAI’s “AI in America” blueprint is really a list of demands for the US government
OpenAI just published a 15-page manifesto titled “ AI in America: Open AI’s Economic Blueprint .” But if you read between the lines, the blueprint boils down to a wish list of things that OpenAI wants...
Will crypto keep coining money?
I am not a bitcoin maxi; I have not had fun staying poor . But crypto generally, and specifically, sits at a busy intersection that includes government policy, retail enthusiasm, and growing institut...
Jump’s crypto subsidiary agrees to a $123 million settlement as terraUSD’s fallout continues to sting
TerraUSD is still managing to inflict pain — even from the grave. The SEC said it’d reached a settlement with Tai Mo Shan, a subsidiary of the investment firm Jump Crypto, regarding its dealings with ...
Law banning TikTok is upheld by appeals court
The clock is ticking. A federal appeals court rejected TikTok’s petition to overturn the law that may lead to a ban on the popular social-media platform within months. “The First Amendment exists to p...
Trump picks crypto-friendly lawyer Paul Atkins for SEC chair
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Paul Atkins, a crypto-friendly lawyer and financial advisor, to serve as the next chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Atkins is currently CEO...
Lina Khan is racing to finish FTC data-broker enforcement actions
In a pair of statements today, the Federal Trade Commission announced settlements with two more data brokers over their sale of sensitive location data: Mobilewalla and Gravy Analytics (and its subsid...
Australia passes world’s first social-media ban for under-16s
Australia has taken an unprecedented step in taking on Big Tech: within a year, children under 16 will be banned from using social media, following Thursday’s Senate approval on the world’s first law ...
SEC Chair Gensler to resign
In a major victory for the crypto industry and its growing army of lobbyists, SEC Chair Gary Gensler said that he would resign January 20, making way for a Trump nominee to run the powerful regulator....
Elon Musk accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior
Elon Musk has said he wants to fire FTC Chair Lina Khan, the person responsible for ramping up antitrust regulation in this country and who has investigated Musk’s company, X . Meanwhile, the and xAI...
Options bets against healthcare stocks spike to three-year high as Trump picks RFK Jr. as health secretary
President-elect Donald Trump is putting forward Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services. The side effects for US healthcare stocks so far include sympt...
Crypto enters a new regulatory era under Trump
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to make the US “the crypto capital of the planet.” So it’s no wonder everyone from everyday investors to the Winklevoss twins are celebrating Trump’s win,...
What Trump’s second administration means for AI
In the nearly four years since Trump left the White House, the AI industry has absolutely exploded. Generative AI has been crammed into pretty much every tech product. White-hot demand for computing r...
Big Tech welcomes its future overlord
Big Tech CEOs are out in full force welcoming president-elect Donald Trump , whose administration they’ll have to appease for the next four years. Companies including , , , , and have been under lots...
As “secretary of cost-cutting,” Elon Musk could cut regulations for his cars and rockets
Elon Musk used his money and his platform to help bring about a second Trump presidency . And Musk and his businesses stand to gain a lot from that patronage. Perhaps most notably, Trump has said he’d...
Meta will suppress your posts if you use the word “vote”
It’s less than three weeks until election day in the US, and , the owner of three of the largest social networks on the planet, would rather you don’t talk politics. In fact, just including the word “...
The SEC’s state-of-the-art market monitoring system is fully operational after 14 years — just in time for legal challenges to kill it.
It’s a remarkably simple name for something so complicated: the CAT. But, Schrödinger's aside , this may be the most complex CAT ever imagined. The Consolidated Audit Trail, or CAT, is a massive repos...