Category: Business

Antitrust law has long recognized that monopolies stifle innovation and gouge consumers on price. When it comes to Big Tech, harm to innovation—in the form of  “kill zones,” where major corporations buy up new entrants to a market before they can compete with them—has been easy to find. Consumer harms have been harder to quantify, […]

The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, which handles all prosecutions in the Seattle area, has instructed police in no uncertain terms: do not use AI to write police reports…for now. This is a good development. We hope prosecutors across the country will exercise such caution as companies continue to pedal technology – generative artificial intelligence […]

Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose W. Fernandez will travel to Serbia from October 9-11 to advance our cooperation through the Minerals Security Partnership Forum on developing diverse and sustainable critical minerals supply chains. He will also promote trade and economic opportunities with the United States. In Belgrade, Under Secretary Fernandez […]

Iberdrola Efficient Wind Measurement Campaigns for Turbine Assessment Challenge is focused on identifying startups that offer innovative wind measurement technology to enhance the efficiency of turbine assessments across large wind farms. Iberdrola is inviting startups offering flexible, easily deployable devices designed to optimize turbine performance through precise data collection, including wind speed, wind direction, and […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Employees and management at the Electronic Frontier Foundation have achieved a first-ever labor contract, they jointly announced today.  EFF employees have joined the Engineers and Scientists of California Local 20, IFPTE.   The EFF bargaining unit includes more than 60 non-management employees in teams across the organization’s program and administrative staff. The contract covers the […]

“It’s a double win when demining – which is always a good thing – is linked to sustainable agriculture and energy security, even when a conflict is ongoing,” according to Chris Loughran and Camille Wallen. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the nation has become one of the world’s most heavily mined […]

                         Governments increasingly rely on algorithmic systems to support consequential assessments and determinations about people’s lives, from judging eligibility for social assistance to trying to predict crime and criminals. Latin America is no exception. With the use of artificial intelligence (AI) posing human rights challenges in the region, EFF released  today the report Inter-American Standards […]

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Prime Minister, thank you very much.  Thank you for welcoming us back to Laos.  And thank you for your leadership as ASEAN chair this year. I also want to thank Dr. Kao for his stewardship of ASEAN, and also Cambodia – and Prime Minister Hun Manet, for serving as our U.S. country coordinator, […]

The global economy took an exceptionally hard hit from the Covid pandemic and many Country economies are still heaving under the aftermath effects. In retrospect, the Biden-Harris economic recovery efforts could be said to have reaped some positive dividends and produced ample results in fuelling the recovery efforts, due to the effects of the pandemic, […]

Update (10/8/2024): Brazil lifted a ban on the X Corp. social media platform today after the country’s Supreme Court said the company had complied with all of its orders. Regulators have 24 hours to reinstate the platform, though it could take longer for it to come back online. The feud between X Corp. and Brazil’s […]