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Brendan Bordelon

@brendanbordelon
12 posts
2023-12-19
NEW: The RAND Corporation, a 75-year-old think tank with increasing ties to effective altruism and top AI companies, played a critical role in drafting new reporting requirements at the center of Biden's AI executive order. https://www.politico.com/...
2023-12-19 View on X
Politico

A source and a doc show that RAND Corporation, backed by $15M+ from Dustin Moskovitz's effective altruism-focused Open Philanthropy, helped craft Biden's AI EO

Brendan Bordelon / Politico :

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2023-10-15
NEW: Tech billionaires with ties to top AI firms are funding the salaries of AI staffers in the key congressional offices working to regulate AI. The program is part of a broader network that's pushing Washington to focus on AI's apocalyptic potential. https://www.politico.com/...
2023-10-15 View on X
Politico

How Dustin Moskovitz's Open Philanthropy is pushing policymakers to focus on AI's long-term risks by funding salaries of staff in Congress and federal agencies

How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington - POLITICO … Kim Perales / @KimPerales@toad.social : Corrupt, self-serving, & dangerous #AI tech titans are inf...

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2021-12-04
Not entirely sure how this would shake out - experts, please let me know! - but doesn't the decision to block a U.S. chip firm's acquisition of a foreign designer undercut the congressional and administration effort to onshore chip capacity? https://www.ftc.gov/...
2021-12-04 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The FTC sues to block Nvidia's acquisition of Arm, arguing the chip deal is anticompetitive; the $40B deal has risen to ~$75B due to Nvidia's share price

The agency alleges the semiconductor deal is anticompetitive  —  WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued …Source:Federal Trade Commission.

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2021-12-03
Not entirely sure how this would shake out - experts, please let me know! - but doesn't the decision to block a U.S. chip firm's acquisition of a foreign designer undercut the congressional and administration effort to onshore chip capacity? https://www.ftc.gov/...
2021-12-03 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The FTC sues to block Nvidia's acquisition of Arm, arguing the chip deal is anticompetitive; the $40B deal has risen to ~$75B due to Nvidia's share price

The agency alleges the semiconductor deal is anticompetitive  —  WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued … Source: Federal Trade Commission .

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2021-10-07
The “techlash” looks a little different outside of DC. Very interesting that Twitter, a platform that generally receives much less scrutiny from either Capitol Hill or regulators, is far less popular than other platforms based in the U.S. It's even behind Facebook. https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-07 View on X
The Verge

Survey of 1,200 US adults: 66% view Facebook favorably, down from 71% in 2020, compared to 79% for Apple (down 2%), 87% for Amazon (down 4%), and 90% for Google

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2021-09-10
This will almost certainly meet the same fate as a similar law passed in Florida, which a federal judge blocked in June. Even if Section 230 didn't preempt state efforts like this (it does), most jurists believe these bills violate the First Amendment rights of tech platforms. https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-10 View on X
Washington Post

Texas governor signs bill banning social media companies with 50M+ MAUs from blocking or restricting people or their content based on their viewpoint

The law is an escalation of a conservative critique of Silicon Valley and will likely to face legal challenges from the industry

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2021-06-30
Even if the FTC refiles, this is going to have a big impact in the congressional debate on antitrust law. Lawmakers on the progressive left and populist right often argue existing law is insufficient to rein in Facebook and other tech giants. This is fuel for that argument.
2021-06-30 View on X
Axios

Dismissals of FTC and state AGs suits against Facebook shows the difficulty of making antitrust charges stick and could spur lawmakers to toughen antitrust laws

and how Facebook's big court win could actually help it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller : “This is going to strengthen the case for legislation,...

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2021-06-29
Even if the FTC refiles, this is going to have a big impact in the congressional debate on antitrust law. Lawmakers on the progressive left and populist right often argue existing law is insufficient to rein in Facebook and other tech giants. This is fuel for that argument.
2021-06-29 View on X
Axios

The dismissal of FTC suit against Facebook shows the difficulty of making antitrust charges stick and could spur lawmakers to strengthen outdated antitrust laws

and threw cold water on the heated campaign to brand Big Tech as illegal monopolists. It shows just how tough it will be for regulators to make their charges of tech malfeasance st...

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Last year a lot of folks argued that Trump's FTC rushed its complaint against Facebook, perhaps as an election-year play. With the district court throwing out that complaint today, it sure looks like they had a point... https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-29 View on X
CNBC

US district court dismisses FTC's antitrust complaint against Facebook, saying its definition of market dominance was insufficient, but will let FTC refile it

- A federal court on Monday dismissed the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust complaint against Facebook.

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Even if the FTC refiles, this is going to have a big impact in the congressional debate on antitrust law. Lawmakers on the progressive left and populist right often argue existing law is insufficient to rein in Facebook and other tech giants. This is fuel for that argument.
2021-06-29 View on X
CNBC

US district court dismisses FTC's antitrust complaint against Facebook, saying its definition of market dominance was insufficient, but will let FTC refile it

- A federal court on Monday dismissed the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust complaint against Facebook.

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2020-10-23
Coming less than a week before Zuckerberg testifies in front of Senate Republicans incensed by Facebook's content moderation practices, this announcement gives Zuck the opportunity to show lawmakers he's taking concrete steps on the bias “problem.” https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-23 View on X
Reuters

Facebook's Oversight Board says it is now accepting cases for review, both from users who have exhausted the company's appeals process and from Facebook itself

absolutely the worst. Started at the top with Elliot Schrage. Sad thing is bullying reporters often works. @reciaimthenet : Translation: “Starting today, Facebook and Instagram use...

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2020-09-09
(Some) Senate Republicans are out with a new Section 230 bill. Still digging in, but it looks like a pretty aggressive overhaul. No Dems listed as cosponsors, and Majority Whip John Thune - who already has his own 230 bill - is also conspicuously absent. https://www.commerce.senate.gov/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-09 View on X
The Hill

Three Senate Republicans introduced a new bill aiming to narrow the scope of Section 230, modifying platforms' protections through more restrictive language

Republican Sens. Roger Wicker (Miss.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) introduced legislation Tuesday aimed …

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