Statement from Sacha Haworth, Executive Director of The Tech Oversight Project: “Twenty-nine attorneys general dragged Meta into court and forced it to protect our kids — overnight shutoffs, daily limits our kids can’t loosen without a parent, and an independent monitor watching Meta’s books for a decade. Meta must now pay over $12 billion to […]

Apropos the make or break vote on the COMPETE Act, happening this morning, the antitrust private right of action is critical. Antitrust enforcement cannot devolve into a budget fight for public enforcement. It is a political threat that will allow monopolies to flourish.

The Tech Oversight Project today applauded the New York State Legislature’s unanimous final passage of the nation-leading youth chatbot safety bill (S.9051/A.10379), sponsored by State Senator Kristen Gonzalez and Assemblymember Alex Bores and developed in cooperation with Attorney General Letitia James. “In a year when Big Tech killed or gutted chatbot safety bills in state […]

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/openai-sued-chatgpts-alleged-role-guiding-fsu-shooter-rcna344443

Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following statement after a verdict was handed down in the first case in the social media addiction trials. This was the first product liability case to go to trial that any Big Tech company has faced and was brought forward by plaintiff K.G.M., who experienced dangerous mental health […]

This week in The Dispatch, we cover the GOP backlash to the Trump-Sacks AI executive order and a new, forward-looking data center policy proposal

Disclosure documents show the tech giant treated state legislators to a perk-filled Chicago junket this fall; now those officials are considering legislation that could impact Google’s bottom line.

Disclosure documents show the tech giant treated state legislators to a perk-filled Chicago junket this fall; now those officials are considering legislation that could impact Google’s bottom line.

Order, which lacks the force of law, also creates taskforce whose ‘sole responsibility’ will be challenging states’ AI laws

The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices.

A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT encouraged a man’s delusional thinking, leading him to kill his 83-year-old mother and take his own life.

The United States should not be lobbied out of protecting its own future.

A report alleges the National PTA's relationship with Meta "gives a sheen of expert approval" to the company's "efforts to keep young users" on its platforms.

This week in The Dispatch, we’re covering new court documents revealing Meta's 17-strike system for sexual predators and child traffickers, the AI super PACs trying to buy themselves a Congress, and the White House AI czar shaping an industry he’s invested in hundreds of times over.