Washington D.C. reporter analyzing big tech regulation, antitrust lawsuits, and AI safety legislation.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has invoked emergency powers to keep the prediction market Kalshi running nationwide, overriding a New York lawsuit that sought to shut down its event contracts as illegal gambling.
A federal judge in Oregon has ordered the Pentagon to resume reviewing wind projects, the latest in a string of rulings against President Trump's attempts to halt US wind development. European energy firms with billions invested in American wind farms have been watching closely.
Seoul's privacy regulator has penalised TikTok 10.3 billion won for harvesting behavioural data from 9.45 million South Korean users via tracking tools embedded across tens of thousands of third-party apps and websites, without valid consent.
A coalition of US news publishers, led by the New York Times, has filed a motion for sanctions against OpenAI in a Manhattan federal court, alleging the company concealed its ability to search its own AI systems for evidence of copyright infringement.