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Ben Brody

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Tech policy reporter at Punchbowl News. Formerly MLex, Protocol (RIP), Bloomberg News and lots of others.

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Ben Brody @benbrodydc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you’re super confused about AI and Congress, you’re not alone! Diego and I are doing a Reddit AMA to break it all down today at 3:30p. Come get answers (or try to stump us)! sh.reddit.com/r/politics/c...
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
NEWS: The leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will unveil a bipartisan deal Monday on guardrails for protecting kids against online harms, including a long-sought compromise on the Kids Online Safety Act. @benbrodydc.bsky.social has the details: punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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House strikes bipartisan KOSA deal
The leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will unveil a bipartisan deal Monday on guardrails for protecting kids against online harms.
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
TECH: A left-right coalition of Big Tech skeptics is pushing the Senate Judiciary Committee to revive its work on expanding antitrust requirements for platforms like Amazon. @benbrodydc.bsky.social has the details: punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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Tech: Left, right groups urge tech antitrust push
A left-right coalition of Big Tech skeptics is pushing the Senate Judiciary Committee to revive its work on expanding antitrust requirements.
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Ben Brody @benbrodydc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
NEW for everyone who has been asking me: The E&C markup will be Thursday morning! The centerpiece is a package combining a dozen bills including the latest KOSA Then App Store age verification and more as standalone bills
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
TECH: Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) is calling for a future Democratic Congress to fix a half-century-old law in a bid to update the White House’s access to information in the era of advanced technology. @benbrodydc.bsky.social has the details: punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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Tech: A Democratic plan on DOGE data
Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) is calling for a future Democratic Congress to fix a half-century-old law in a bid to update the W.H.’s access to information.
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
TECH: Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos is heading to Capitol Hill Tuesday with a pitch: His company’s $83 billion purchase of Warner Bros. puts America First. DOJ enforcers and some lawmakers aren’t convinced. @benbrodydc.bsky.social previews what to expect: punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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Tech: Sarandos to stress Netflix plans for U.S.
Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos will have a message for lawmakers on Tuesday: His company’s purchase of Warner Bros. will further its investments in the U.S.
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Ben Brody @benbrodydc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
From @punchbowlnews.bsky.social: House GOP leaders urged the White House to hold off on a leaked draft order to push back on states regulating AI Scalise et al want more time for Hill work. He’s still trying to preempt state AI rules in NDAA punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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House leaders urge Trump to wait on AI order
House GOP leaders are urging the White House to hold off on an executive order targeting state AI laws.
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
TECH: Google is backing three bipartisan bills today designed to combat scams, two of which have advanced on the Hill in recent weeks. @benbrodydc.bsky.social has the details— punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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Google backs three bills on scams
Google is backing three bipartisan bills today designed to combat scams, two of which have advanced on the Hill in recent weeks.
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Ben Brody @benbrodydc.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
We all talk about prestige TV but there are actually only two shows called “Chicago Helicopter Ambulance Pilot who’s Also a Single Dad on CBS” and “A Woman is a Lawyer?!”
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
TECH: A bipartisan duo are ramping up support for their App Store Freedom Act, taking aim at Apple & Google’s control over smartphone apps. Three more lawmakers joined this week as momentum builds. @benbrodydc.bsky.social has the details— punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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Smartphone bill backers ramp up
The bipartisan House duo behind a bill that would take on Apple’s and Google’s smartphone app stores is ramping up their push to get support.
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Ben Brody @benbrodydc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I wrote about how Democratic leaders in the Senate are moving onto TikTok, as the political megaphone becomes too crucial to ignore and the platform’s future in the U.S. firms up punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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Democratic senators embrace TikTok
Top Senate Democrats are learning to stop worrying and love TikTok.
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The battle over using reconciliation to stop states from regulating artificial intelligence is over. That doesn’t mean key Republicans are giving up on the idea. @benbrodydc.bsky.social with more: punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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What’s next on the AI rules freeze
The battle over using reconciliation to stop states from regulating AI is over. That doesn’t mean key Republicans are giving up on the idea.
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi wants the Hill to get ready for machines that can match human cognitive abilities across a variety of domains. @benbrodydc.bsky.social with details: punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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What Krishnamoorthi wants on AGI
Krishnamoorthi said during a panel hearing last week, he was looking to make sure such artificial general intelligence, or AGI, would be kept in line with human goals like peace.
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Digital creators are ready to make their mark in Washington, and platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram shouldn’t expect they’ll always get along with the professional posters when it comes to policy. @benbrodydc.bsky.social with details: punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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The coming split between creators and platforms
Digital creators are ready to make their mark in Washington, and platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram shouldn’t expect they’ll always get along with the professional posters when it comes to p...
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Artificial intelligence systems are “idiot savants,” and maximizing what models do well while minimizing screwups will be crucial to adoption of AI into the U.S. government’s defense functions. @benbrodydc.bsky.social with more from DARPA's Kathleen Fisher: punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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Dealing with AI’s ‘idiot savants’
AI systems are “idiot savants,” and maximizing what models do well while minimizing screwups will be crucial to adoption of AI into the U.S. government’s defense functions.
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Last week, a top policy official at Google’s YouTube testified at a Senate hearing on a bill the company supports to extend voice and likeness rights in the age of artificial intelligence. @benbrodydc.bsky.social with more: punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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Google is ‘getting to yes’
This past week, a top policy official at Google’s YouTube testified at a Senate hearing on a bill the company supports to extend voice and likeness rights in the age of artificial intelligence.
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Sen. Elissa Slotkin wants business leaders and tech experts to be working hand in hand with the Pentagon on confronting China. @benbrodydc.bsky.social with details: punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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Slotkin wants tech in war games
Sen. Elissa Slotkin wants business leaders and tech experts to be working hand in hand with the Pentagon on confronting China.
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The House’s privacy working group has now received written input from industry and consumer groups. @benbrodydc.bsky.social takes you behind the scenes: punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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The latest on the House privacy working group
The House’s privacy working group has now received written input from industry and consumer groups. But the ad hoc collection is going to take its time before producing a bill.
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Making Google and Apple verify users’ ages on their app stores is an idea supported by an unlikely coalition of child-safety advocates, Meta and other social media services. @benbrodydc.bsky.social with details: punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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The odd-couple coalition backing Hill’s app store push
Making Google and Apple verify users’ ages on their app stores is an idea supported by an unlikely coalition of child-safety advocates, Meta and other social media services.
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The White House gave the public until last night to weigh in on how the administration should handle artificial intelligence. And weigh in they did. @benbrodydc.bsky.social details what AI players are telling the administration. punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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What the White House is hearing on AI
The White House gave the public until last night to weigh in on how the administration should handle artificial intelligence.
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Ben Brody @benbrodydc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Purim, or as it’s called in my family, the beginning of the Passover RSVP guilt season
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
From TECH: Lutnick does the rounds as tariffs terrify the tech world, the Republican split on spectrum widens, lawmakers worry about tech billionaires and more. Diego, @benbrodydc.bsky.social & @andrewdesiderio.bsky.social in the Lookahead: punchbowl.news/archive/3925...
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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The Senate Judiciary Committee made clear that it’s launching back into the tech regulatory debates with bills that modify Section 230. Sen. Ron Wyden is preparing to defend it. @benbrodydc.bsky.social with details: punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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Wyden prepares to defend Section 230… again
Wyden has been instrumental in saving Section 230 from these efforts with help from the industry and civil liberties advocates.
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Ben Brody @benbrodydc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This feels like the most Bluesky story I’ve written in a while
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Ben Brody @benbrodydc.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
NEWS: Cruz reintro'd his bipartisan bill on deep fake nudes. The Take It Down Act came about as close to passing last year as it could without becoming law, but it's in a great position for this year. Rare issue where most everyone agrees punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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Ted Cruz brings back deepfakes bill that almost passed
If it were to pass, the measure known as the Take It Down Act, would represent a rare success among lawmaker efforts to regulate social media.
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Ben Brody @benbrodydc.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
How does Bluesky feel about the TikTok ban? Here’s our wrap on the sudden right turn this took on the Hill today punchbowl.news/article/tech...
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Senate Dem leaders push for last-minute TikTok delay
The looming deadline to bar the popular app is getting the attention of Democrats worried about the political fallout with its users.
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Ben Brody @benbrodydc.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
It’s been a crazy week for me, but you can catch up on some of it here!
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Ben Brody @benbrodydc.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Ten years ago today, I arrived in DC for a three-month internship. May my plans continue to go wrong in the most wonderful of ways!
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Ben Brody @benbrodydc.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
INBOX earlier today: incoming Energy and Commerce Chair Rep Brett Guthrie announces Joel Miller, his former deputy CoS, as committee chief counsel. Jessica Donlon will be general counsel, Chris Sarley senior advisor, Matt VanHyfte as comms director
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Justin Brookman @justinbrookman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Punchbowl's @benbrodydc.bsky.social got a copy of FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson's pitch to be chair under Trump:
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Ben Brody @benbrodydc.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
It’s finally here! Today we launched @PunchbowlNews Tech! We’ve been working on this for months and are so excited to bring it to you. punchbowl.news/archive/1242...
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12/4/24⚡️ Welcome to Premium Policy: Tech
PRESENTED BY IN THIS EDITION Welcome to Punchbowl News TechGarry Tan is hopeful about TrumpWhere Tech’s dreams will go to thrive or die on the HillWho’s
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Ben Brody @benbrodydc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Welcome new followers! Guess I might have to mirror my content for a bit
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 28/11/2023
The UK CMA provisionally finds Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition would likely harm innovation for design software and invites responses ahead of a final decision (Joseph Hoppe/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Ben Brody @benbrodydc.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
I thought I was never gonna see you guys again! 😭
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