This week in The Dispatch we're covering how candidates who ran on Big Tech accountability swept key races, a federal judge orders OpenAI to hand over deleted evidence in copyright trial, and New York enacts new safety laws for AI chatbots.
Welcome back to The Dispatch from The Tech Oversight Project, your weekly updates on all things tech accountability. Follow us on Twitter at @Tech_Oversight and @techoversight.bsky.social on Bluesky. 🗳️ ELECTION DAY IN AMERICA: Ballots are being cast and counted. Wear your “I Voted” sticker with pride — kind of
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering Big Tech’s record lobbying operation in Congress, Amazon’s AWS breaks the web, Meta’s own research proving Meta harms kids…again, and Trump demolishes the White House to party with tech CEOs.
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering Big Tech’s no-holds-barred lobbying campaign that secured a last-minute veto of the nation’s strongest kids’ AI safety bill, OpenAI’s legal intimidation campaign, and Palantir CEO Peter Thiel’s bizarre obsession with the Antichrist.
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering the suite of tech safety bills signed into California law (and the one that wasn't), Google’s loss in the Epic antitrust trial, and how Apple and Google pulled a community-safety app under federal pressure.
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering soaring electricity bills as Big Tech’s AI boom drains the grid, another Meta antitrust, buy-or-bury lawsuit, and a hopeful bipartisan AI bill.
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering the fight to pass California’s landmark kids’ AI safety bill, the Big Tech PAC money flooding politics, and Amazon’s $2.5B payout to dodge accountability.
This week in The Dispatch we cover how Big Tech is showing up on the campaign trail, the latest in the Google ad-tech remedy trial, and Mark Zuckerberg's smart glasses that couldn't answer a simple question.
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering Ted Cruz’s new AI bill, whistleblower testimony of another Meta cover-up, and polling that shows voters across party lines want guardrails on Big Tech.
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering the new confounding Google antitrust remedy ruling, new Meta whistleblowers, and Big Tech corruption in the White House.
This week in The Dispatch we’re covering the OpenAI wrongful death lawsuit, how Big Tech is flooding elections with new dark-money PACs, and alarming new stats on the scale of online scams.
This week in The Dispatch we're covering Meta's shocking chatbot guidelines, the White House rollback of the competition executive order, and Google's stake in the AI browser wars.
This week in The Dispatch, we're covering Trump's love letter to Big Tech AI (AKA AI "Action" Plan) and the latest jaw-dropping stats from Big Tech's lobbying spree
Welcome back to The Dispatch from The Tech Oversight Project, your weekly updates on all things tech accountability. Follow us on Twitter at @Tech_Oversight and @techoversight.bsky.social on Bluesky. 🥊 TAKING THE FIGHT TO BIG TECH: “Public opinion is on our side.” Sacha Haworth, Executive Director of The Tech
A closer look at Big Tech's youth mental health crisis and Meta literally poisoning wells with its toxic data center expansion
Welcome back to The Dispatch from The Tech Oversight Project, your weekly updates on all things tech accountability. Follow us on Twitter at @Tech_Oversight and @techoversight.bsky.social on Bluesky. UN)COMPLEXITY PROBLEMS: Breaking Up Google Not Too Hard, Actually: As part of the Justice Department’s historic antitrust
Welcome back to The Dispatch from The Tech Oversight Project, your weekly updates on all things tech accountability. Follow us on Twitter at @Tech_Oversight and @techoversight.bsky.social on Bluesky. 🤖🪦 RIP AI MORATORIUM (FOR NOW): In an roller coaster week, the on-going AI moratorium debate came to a conclusion
Welcome back to The Dispatch from The Tech Oversight Project, your weekly updates on all things tech accountability. Follow us on Twitter at @Tech_Oversight and @techoversight.bsky.social on Bluesky. 🏛️ CIVIL RIGHTS ORGS BLAST BIG TECH’S “GET OUT OF JAIL FREE” CARD: Late last week, the Leadership Conference
Welcome back to The Dispatch from The Tech Oversight Project, your weekly updates on all things tech accountability. Follow us on Twitter at @Tech_Oversight and @techoversight.bsky.social on Bluesky. 🔴 CONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION TO AI MORATORIUM EMERGES: While many are aware that some MAGA-connected Members of Congress have come forward
Welcome back to The Dispatch from The Tech Oversight Project, your weekly updates on all things tech accountability. Follow us on Twitter at @Tech_Oversight and @techoversight.bsky.social on Bluesky. 🔥 AI PREEMPTION BATTLE HEATS UP ON THE HILL: After the House shoved a 10-year moratorium on state AI laws
Welcome back to The Dispatch from The Tech Oversight Project, your weekly updates on all things tech accountability. Follow us on Twitter at @Tech_Oversight and @techoversight.bsky.social on Bluesky. BIG TECH DECLARED WAR ON STATE AI REGS: House Republicans just slipped a ten-year moratorium on state AI regulations
Welcome back to The Dispatch from The Tech Oversight Project, your weekly updates on all things tech accountability. Follow us on Twitter at @Tech_Oversight and @techoversight.bsky.social on Bluesky. 🚨 BIG TECH HANDOUT ALERT: On Sunday, House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans introduced their budget reconciliation bill. Tucked into
Welcome back to The Dispatch from The Tech Oversight Project, your weekly updates on all things tech accountability. Follow us on Twitter at @Tech_Oversight and @techoversight.bsky.social on Bluesky. 🚨🚨🚨 BIG TECH HANDOUT: STABLECOIN LEGISLATION HEADS TO SENATE FLOOR: Senate Majority Leader John Thune is planning to bring the
Welcome back to The Dispatch from The Tech Oversight Project, your weekly updates on all things tech accountability. Follow us on Twitter at @Tech_Oversight and @techoversight.bsky.social on Bluesky. 📨 MEMO: DON’T BUY WHAT GOOGLE IS SELLING: TECH MONOPOLIES ARE A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT: The Meta whistleblower hearing