AI Driving Up Health Care Costs, Big Tech's Big Night Out at the WH
This week in The Dispatch: AI drives up health care costs; Big Tech's billionaires take their seats at Trump's state dinner; Meta fights to keep its secrets sealed
This week in The Dispatch: Tech accountability is a winning issue; anti-AI sentiment cuts across the political spectrum; Zuckerberg works the phones at the White House; and Google lobbies for loopholes in state chatbot bills
This week in The Dispatch: AI and data centers reshape the midterms; Congress returns and the pressure's back on Zuckerberg; Newsom signs a landmark kids' safety package; and teachers' unions raise the bar on AI in schools.
This week in The Dispatch: Lawmakers start the clock for Newsom; Meta caught running AI child-abuse ads; the Meta settlement is no substitute for KOSA; NJ notches a big win
This week in The Dispatch: 29 attorneys general force Meta to change its products, but the fight is far from over; the data center backlash defining the midterms; TikTok’s deadly experiment; and a California legislative session wrap-up.
This week in The Dispatch: The court cases pile up for Big Tech; our red lines for tomorrow's Senate KOSA markup; an Iowa mom asks her senator to subpoena Zuckerberg; state lawmakers aren't waiting on Washington; and Americans keep souring on AI.
This week in The Dispatch: A delayed hearing is a chance to subpoena Big Tech's CEOs; California takes on AI that spies on workers; the data center revolt goes national
This week in The Dispatch: A weak House kids bill stumbles toward the Senate; we launch a public tracker of AI super PAC spending; California's COMPETE Act hits a critical moment; and Apple shuts down its first union store.
Subhead: This week in The Dispatch: Meta schemes to gut KOSA from the inside; Big Tech money reshapes the NY-12 race; and New Jersey advances real kids' safety leadership.
This week in The Dispatch: A broad coalition says "hell no" to AI preemption; California moves to make social media companies pay for harming kids; Meta caught building secret facial recognition; and a recent report shows how platforms are failing LGBTQ users.
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This week in The Dispatch: the AI super PAC funded by OpenAI and Palantir caught running a smear network; a landmark win for our kids in New York; Big Tech’s secret plan to hook kids in class; and the data center backlash hits the ballot box.
This week in The Dispatch: 44 AGs reject a Big Tech-backed House bill; Louisiana's data center corruption gets deeper; major bills move forward in California; Zuckerberg's yacht arrives in Seattle the same week Meta cuts 1,400 local jobs.
This week in The Dispatch: Big Tech runs from its own test cases; Zuckerberg's secret Louisiana deal and a Speaker who forgot about our kids; New York moves on chatbots; graduates boo the AI hype machine; and the PAC money keeps flowing.
This week in The Dispatch: Senate summons the CEOs, California moves on antitrust, and Big Tech's PAC money is proving toxic
This week in The Dispatch: ChatGPT linked to the FSU shooting – and a pattern of harm; Colorado passes an industry-backed chatbot bill – now parents are urging the Governor to veto it; New Mexico pushes Meta toward a historic redesign; and Big Tech sues kids safety laws it couldn't lobby away.
This week in The Dispatch: New Mexico orders Meta to actually fix its products; Big Tech's dark-money group caught paying influencers to push talking points; the data center backlash explodes; and Met Gala pushback shows reputation laundering isn't working.
This week in The Dispatch: Big Tech's lobbying machine hits $200K a day; the Sacramento money flood; Zuckerberg cries poor; and parents take the fight to Congress.
Big Tech floods the AI midterms with cash, 70+ parents are at the Capitol today demanding action after the landmark verdict, and Palantir's manifesto reveals what Big Tech actually wants;
This week in The Dispatch: AI Super PACs have different rules for D's and R's; OpenAI's serial liar; and states start making Big Tech pay.
This week in The Dispatch: How YouTube execs addicted kids; Big Tech collects billions in new tax breaks; the AI preemption push runs out of friends; and Gen Z has had enough.
This week in The Dispatch: A jury finds Meta and Google liable in a landmark verdict; Meta's insurance dries up; as Big Tech reels in court, it's quietly trying to sneak liability shields through state legislatures; and a new poll shows America is souring on AI.
This week in the Dispatch: A damages question from the jury signals where deliberations could be heading; the AI preemption fight is back and uglier than ever; and Meta's big Illinois spending spree backfires.