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California signs landmark AI safety bill SB 53 | TechCrunch
SB 53 requires large AI labs – including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google DeepMind – to be transparent about safety protocols. It also ensures w... (2025)
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)
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)
U.K. Blocks Microsoft’s Activision Bid - The New York Times
The decision barring the takeover of a big video game publisher is a major victory for proponents of regulating tech giants, which have faced obsta... (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)
Schumpeter - Bad News. Should big tech save newspapers?
No. They need to save themselves (2020)
IBM, Marriott and Mickey Mouse Take On Tech’s Favorite Law - The New York Times
A motley group of powerful companies have their knives out for Section 230, which shields platforms from lawsuits over content posted by users. (2020)
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)
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)
Google now pays more money in EU fines than it pays in taxes | Computing
Google files 2018 revenues revealing that it pays $900m more in fines than it pays in taxes (2019)
What Foods Are Banned in Europe but Not Banned in the U.S.? - The New York Times
The European Union prohibits many food additives and various drugs that are widely used in American foods. (2018)
Robinhood Checking Moved Fast and Broke - Bloomberg
Also Goldman and 1MDB, prop trading and sovereign crypto. (2018)
How Juul, founded on a life-saving mission, became the most embattled startup of 2018 - Fast Company
E-cigarette startup Juul Labs is valued at more than $16 billion. It’s also hooking teens on nicotine and drawing scrutiny from the FDA. Can the co... (2018)
Three European Countries Block Tax on Tech Giants (2018) - Bloomberg
Denmark, Ireland and Sweden reject levy in its current form. Passing taxes requires unanimity among EU member states... (2018)
GDPR and Blockchain: Is the New EU Data Protection Regulation a Threat or an Incentive?
New European data protection regulation to trigger even more blockchain innovation. (2018)
Whois public database in public breach of GDPR, according to European authorities
Whois is dead as Europe hands DNS overlord ICANN its arse • The Register “Can we still have a GDPR moratorium, asks US domain-name body... (2018)
The success of AVs will depend on sensible regulation - Rules of the road - The Economist
Smart regulation and smart technology must go hand in hand "REGULATING A COMPLEX new technology is hard, particularly if it is evolving rapidly.... (2018)
Tech Giants Set to Face 3% Tax on Revenue Under New EU Plan - Bloomberg
Large digital companies operating in the European Union, such as Alphabet Inc. or Twitter Inc., could face a 3 percent tax on their gross revenues ... (2018)
Opinion | The Supreme Court Case That Could Give Tech Giants More Power - The New York Times
The last thing we need at this time is for Amazon, Facebook and Google to avoid antitrust scrutiny. (2018)
Tech Giants Brace for Europe’s New Data Privacy Rules - The New York Times
A stringent set of data protection rules will take effect in Europe in May. Facebook, Google and others are working overtime to be ready. (2018)
Can markets be too free? - The Economist explains
To mark the publication of “Go Figure”, a collection of The Economist’s explainers and daily charts, the editors of this blog solicited ideas on Fa... (2018)
Why does Google look different in Europe? - The Economist explains
MOST users will not notice the difference. Starting today, Google is fully implementing a small but important change to the advertisement box at th... (2018)
Taking Back Power: An Upstart Government Plans to Tokenize Energy - CoinDesk
“The plan is to incentivize solar power generation by circumventing rules inhibiting its adoption... trading is not with the utility company but be... (2018)
BitLicense Refugees: Kraken, ShapeShift CEOs Talk Escape from New York - CoinDesk
Jesse Powell and Erik Voorhees delivered red-meat rhetoric but also made subtler points about New York's cryptocurrency regulations at Consensus 20... (2018)
New York Plans Blockchain Center to Stake Claim as Industry Hub - CoinDesk
New York's Economic Development Corporation is launching several initiatives to put the Big Apple on the map as a blockchain technology hub. (2018)
Why the SEC Should Give Amnesty to Illegal ICOs - CoinDesk
The SEC and ICO participants must work together to find a reasonable market fix to the current royal mess... (2018)
New York Lawmakers Open to Revisiting the BitLicense - CoinDesk
Two New York state senators held a roundtable Friday on the controversial BitLicense regulation, and said legislation to reform it may come soon. (2018)
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)