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May 22, 2025
The Evidence So Far: What Research Reveals About AI’s Real Impact on Jobs and Society
As organizations race to integrate new AI models into their workflows, everyone is wondering what the effects will be on industries, jobs, and society: Will these new technologies complement human capabilities, create new opportunities, or replace workers across various sectors? The following table compiles research on large language models (LLMs), chatbots, and AI systems published…
May 21, 2025
First Amendment Fundamentals for Lawmakers as Courts Block Efforts to Protect Minors on Social Media
Lawmakers considering bills to safeguard minors from ostensible harms linked to social media platforms should carefully review two recent federal court opinions declaring unconstitutional state laws imposing parental-consent, age-verification mandates. US District Judge Algenon Marbley’s April decision from Ohio in NetChoice v. Yost and US District Judge Timothy Brooks’ March ruling from Arkansas in NetChoice…
May 20, 2025
How Much Paperwork, How Little Privacy for the Innocent?
Justice Kavanaugh asked some important practical questions during oral argument in the birthright citizenship case in the Supreme Court last week. The executive order in dispute purports to deny citizenship to children born in the United States based on the noncitizenship of their parents. “What do hospitals do with a newborn, what do states do…
May 16, 2025
The FTC’s Case Against Meta Looks Like Politics, Not Antitrust
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust case against Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is not really about protecting consumers or competition. It is an attempt to use regulatory power to dismantle a company based on political power, not law—a form of lawfare dressed in antitrust’s clothing. To make its case, the FTC first had to invent…
May 16, 2025
Congressional Crossfire: How Competing App Store Bills Create an Impossible Mandate
In Congress’s latest attempt to regulate Big Tech, two Republican lawmakers have created a policy paradox. In an effort to shape the future of app stores, each piece of proposed legislation undermines the other—yet both point out a critical blind spot in the conversation surrounding parental responsibility. Rep. Kat Cammack’s App Store Freedom Act would…
May 15, 2025
Should NEPA Apply to BEAD’s Broadband Grants?
A pivotal decision made by the Biden administration last year requires that broadband grants supported by the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program be reviewed under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). However, this decision lies in a murky area of the law that has since been overturned—calling into question the necessity…
May 14, 2025
REAL ID Day After-Action Report: Stalemate
D-Day is more than just the glorious day that began the end of World War II. It is the general term for any major military operation, along with H-Hour and perhaps M-Minute in cyber war. Here’s my report from a curious move in our nation’s War on Terror: REAL ID Day. On May 7, 2025,…
May 14, 2025
Loosening an Ownership Cap and Tightening a News Rule: Can Carr’s FCC Reconcile Its Objectives?
Can the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) square its statutory authority to ensure that over-the-air television broadcasters provide local content that serves the public interest with potentially eliminating a federal rule that bans owners of broadcast stations from reaching more than 39 percent of all US TV households? Maybe, but before scrapping the cap, the Commission…
May 13, 2025
The FTC Is Trying to Rewrite the Story of Instagram
Every startup story is a mosaic of choices, chances, and context. But in its lawsuit against Meta, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has adopted a sharply linear view of innovation—one where the key moment happens in 2012, when Facebook acquired Instagram, and everything before or after is a footnote. That’s a mistake. The full story of Instagram…
May 12, 2025
Agents, Access, and Advantage: Lessons from Meta’s LlamaCon
Meta was kind enough to extend an invitation for me to attend its inaugural LlamaCon—a one-day developer summit devoted to the Llama family of open-source large language models. It offered the chance to better understand the direction in which both the technology and its surrounding ecosystem are moving, and therefore merits a close read by…