Tag: competition
Automakers Pressure Congress To Ban Chinese EVs To ‘Protect Privacy’
If you enjoy badly written bipartisan protectionist tech legislation designed primarily to coddle giant U.S. companies under the xenophobia-tinged breathless pretense of privacy and national security, you are really going to enjoy the next twelve to twenty-four months.While the U.S. drowns in corrupt kakistocracy, the Chinese are making significant market inroads in everything from AI...
More Details Emerge On How Trump Cronyism Ruined The Attempt To Break Up Ticketmaster
Last March it was revealed that the Trump DOJ stabbed its antitrust lawsuit state partners in the back and struck a terrible settlement with Ticketmaster, scuttling a generational opportunity to break up one of the more glaring examples of modern monopoly power. Quite a curious choice for a Trump-addled party that spent all last election...
Elon Musk Wants To Get Into Wireless Phones And He’s Probably Not Going To Have A Good Time
There have been rumblings for a while that America's richest and most annoying white supremacist, Elon Musk, really wants to get into the wireless phone business. His lobbyists have been making noise in support for broader phone unlocking rules, and there've been several IPO-fluffing press leaks over the last few months indicating they're keen on...
Trump’s AI Framework Is So Bad They Won’t Show You What’s In It
For a while now we've been mocking the Trump White House's plans for an "AI framework" that would have the frontier AI labs hand over their top models for an initial review. After all, this was more or less the exact same plan that the Biden admin worked out in 2023, but it was done...
Gavin Newsom Makes An Ass Of Himself On Antitrust, Paramount Merger
It's hard to not have noticed that a key enabler of U.S. authoritarianism was our consolidated corporate media, which (with scattered exception) was more than happy to throw the entirety of journalistic integrity in the toilet for a chance to please a mad, idiot king. In large part because our press is increasingly owned by...
Trump’s Sloppy, Incompetent Chinese Protectionism Expanded To Robot Vacuums, Lawnmowers
Ideally, I think it makes sense to open up the U.S. market to Chinese goods (AI, EVs, robots), but have functional and well-funded regulators that policy all labor, competition, environmental, privacy, and consumer rights abuses. But big companies don't much like that because it would boost competition and accountability, eroding quarterly revenues.So instead we get...
Anthropic Says It’s Against A Ban On Open Weight Models. It Just Wants To Ban Everything That Makes Them Good.
Just recently Karl warned that we were going to see some absolute nonsense as the US sought to somehow "ban" Chinese AI models from being used in the US. That seems to already be happening. It kicked off with talk that the US might "fight Chinese AI" using nearly identical arguments to what was used...
Your AI agent chooses what you see
A French regulator's shopping test shows that ChatGPT and Gemini build recommendations from very different parts of the web.