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Avi Asher-Schapiro

@aaschapiro
168 posts
2026-01-27
The Department of Transportation plans to use Google's AI to draft new rules. DOT's top legal official told colleagues that the quality of the rules isn't so important: “We want good enough.” he said: “We're flooding the zone.” https://www.propublica.org/...
2026-01-27 View on X
ProPublica

Sources: the US DOT plans to use Gemini to draft federal regulations, cutting the process to just 30 days; the DOT used it to draft a still-unpublished FAA rule

2026-01-26
The Department of Transportation plans to use Google's AI to draft new rules. DOT's top legal official told colleagues that the quality of the rules isn't so important: “We want good enough.” he said: “We're flooding the zone.” https://www.propublica.org/...
2026-01-26 View on X
ProPublica

Sources: the US DOT plans to use Gemini to draft federal regulations, cutting the process to just 30 days; the DOT used it to draft a still-unpublished FAA rule

The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations.

2025-02-10
31 crypto wallets amassed $669 million in profits trading on Trump's meme coin. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2025-02-10 View on X
New York Times

Chainalysis: just under 700K wallets recorded gains on $TRUMP, 810K+ have lost money, and $6.6B has been secured in cashed-out profits, mostly by early buyers

TRUMP: Over $100 million in trading fees  —  THE PUBLIC: Over $2 billion in loses Dave Min / @daveminca : If only there was an agency to police our financial markets or protect con...

2025-01-21
The DOGE executive order appears to create an additional layer of bureaucracy to modernize software & government IT - a bit different on its face from Musk/Ramaswamy's talk of cutting 75% of the federal workforce, and saving 2 trillion dollars. https://www.whitehouse.gov/... [image]
2025-01-21 View on X
TechCrunch

Trump signs an EO renaming the US Digital Service as the US DOGE Service, directing agency heads to form “DOGE Teams” of at least four employees within 30 days

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory commission spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk recommending deep cuts …

2024-12-15
Trump's transition team wants to eliminate a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rule which now requires companies like Tesla to alert the government of crashes that occur when autonomous-driving tech is engaged within 30 seconds of impact. https://www.reuters.com/...
2024-12-15 View on X
Reuters

Document: Trump's transition team seeks to repeal a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation

#DOGE #musk  —  www.reuters.com/business/aut... @lorifontanes : just like pregnancy health outcomes & gun violence, data on #selfdriving #car crashes shouldn't be suppressed & is e...

2024-11-09
Last month, ScaleAI, an AI company with significant defense contracts, sent a letter to Congress outlining its vision for AI regulations - yesterday, the Trump transition said that ScaleAI executive Michael Kratsios would be handling its tech policy. https://www.politico.com/... [image]
2024-11-09 View on X
Forbes

AI startup founders and VCs hope that a Trump administration will lead to lighter regulations and the return of real acquisitions, not “contorted” ones

Practitioners expect more acquisitions and less oversight in a Trump administration expected to repeal Biden's executive order.

2024-10-21
Nice details in this WaPo report on the meetings between tech execs & the Harris camp . Team Harries has been: “reminding tech execs that [Harris] ran against Warren in the 2020 primaries, when Warren made antitrust action against tech a wedge issue.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2024-10-21 View on X
Washington Post

A look at the Harris campaign's outreach to the tech sector, as it tries to convince companies that she'll chart her own course while avoiding policy specifics

they are not convincing independents with their current strategy Scott Kupor / @skupor : “Being more specific could test the party's cohesion. Replacing enforcement officials whom ...

2024-10-13
Really incredible finding by Bloomberg show how Uber/Lyft dealt with a minimum wage law in New York: https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2024-10-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay

Even If You're Not One Johan / The Rideshare Guy : Weekly Roundup: Rideshare Drivers Use Teslas as Makeshift Robotaxis Katie Johnston / The Boston Globe : 'To me, this isn't a full...

2024-10-12
Really incredible finding by Bloomberg show how Uber/Lyft dealt with a minimum wage law in New York: https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2024-10-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay

One August morning in south Brooklyn, Mohamed Mohamed did what he's done almost every day for nine years: He woke up at 5 a.m. …

2024-09-30
I did not follow SB 1047 super closely. But, it sure seems notable that in a state where the Dems have complete control, they were still unable to enact an AI safety bill, despite a long deliberative process which even got some industry people onside.
2024-09-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill SB 1047, saying it applies only to large AI models and doesn't account for if deployment is high risk

Governor seeks more encompassing rules than the bill opposed by OpenAI, Meta and supported by research scientists

2024-09-08
This is an incredible deep dive into the enforcement of Prop 22, the law Uber/Lift/gig companies wrote to regulate their own labor standards. One thing that comes through is just total lack of state capacity in California: https://calmatters.org/... [image]
2024-09-08 View on X
CalMatters

An investigation details the lack of enforcement of CA's Prop 22 about four years after the ballot initiative, backed by gig economy companies, became state law

Prop. 22 promised improved pay and benefits for California gig workers.  But when companies fail to deliver, the state isn't doing much to help push back.

2024-09-07
This is an incredible deep dive into the enforcement of Prop 22, the law Uber/Lift/gig companies wrote to regulate their own labor standards. One thing that comes through is just total lack of state capacity in California: https://calmatters.org/... [image]
2024-09-07 View on X
CalMatters

An investigation details the lack of enforcement of CA's Prop 22 about four years after the ballot initiative, backed by gig economy companies, became state law

Prop. 22 promised improved pay and benefits for California gig workers.  But when companies fail to deliver, the state isn't doing much to help push back.

2024-06-18
An interesting trend at the FTC, going after individual executives responsible for overseeing dark pattern. I'd sure love to know what's behind that redaction: https://www.ftc.gov/... [image]
2024-06-18 View on X
The Verge

The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming “consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing” plan terms

Amid a flurry of tech news yesterday … Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central : US government sues Adobe for ‘deceptive’ business tactics and hiding steep subscription cancellation charges...

2024-06-09
This is pretty nuts - it took me like 5 minutes searching around on this page to even find the reference to the original Forbes reporting that the AI-news-aggregator leached.
2024-06-09 View on X
Forbes

AI search engine Perplexity is republishing parts of stories by Forbes and others, with nearly identical words and inadequate attribution, on its Pages feature

The startup, hailed as an AI-focused Google challenger, is republishing parts of exclusive stories from multiple publications …

2024-06-08
This is pretty nuts - it took me like 5 minutes searching around on this page to even find the reference to the original Forbes reporting that the AI-news-aggregator leached.
2024-06-08 View on X
Forbes

AI search engine Perplexity is republishing parts of stories by Forbes and others, with nearly identical words and inadequate attribution, on its Pages feature

The startup, hailed as an AI-focused Google challenger, is republishing parts of exclusive stories from multiple publications …

2023-11-22
So it would appear, like other AI executives before him, Altman was vigorously trying to control the academic research of others at OpenAI. https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
2023-11-22 View on X
Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as Chair alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

OpenAI said late Tuesday that it had reached a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with a new board chaired by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor.

2023-11-21
“Executives at the India offices of Netflix & Amazon Prime Video...ask for extensive changes to rework political plots and remove passing references to religion that might offend the Hindu right wing or the BJP.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... [image]
2023-11-21 View on X
Washington Post

Investigation: as Amazon and Netflix back down on daring films, self-censorship pervades the Indian streaming industry due to pressure from Modi's ruling BJP

MUMBAI — Over a three-decade career, the filmmaker Anurag Kashyap often trained a critical eye on his native India as he wove tales … X: @aaschapiro , @gerryshih , @gerryshih , @an...

2023-11-08
Pretty damning stuff from former Meta engineer Arturo Béjar: “I can safely say that Meta's executives knew the harm that teenagers were experiencing, that there were things that they could do that are very doable and that they chose not to do them.” https://apnews.com/...
2023-11-08 View on X
CNN

Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue

Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …

A key detail from ex-Meta engineer Arturo Béjar's Congressional testimony: he says Instagram is aware that unwanted sexual advances directed at minors are a major category of abuse, but that the company doesn't have a dedicated flagging mechanism. https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/ ... [image]
2023-11-08 View on X
CNN

Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue

Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …

2023-11-01
One of Biden's top technology advisors @superwuster , calls the failure of US lawmakers to enact *any* protection for children online a “a disgrace to the Republic.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... [image]
2023-11-01 View on X
The Atlantic

Despite broad support by the US public and lawmakers for child internet laws, Congress has done nothing, even after holding 39 hearings on the topic since 2017

Americans are broadly united in support of laws to make the internet safer for kids.  So why doesn't Congress act? Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @justinhendrix , @superwuster...