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David Dayen

@ddayen
126 posts
2026-02-26
The amazing thing is that Citadel felt compelled to put out a note rebutting the blog post, and it's core message is, um, AI adoption at work is flat.  —  www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and- ins...
2026-02-26 View on X
Citadel Securities

Citadel rebuts Citrini's viral article, arguing that AI deployment is constrained by the marginal cost of compute vs. human labor, and needs far more compute

Copyright © Citadel Enterprise Americas LLC or one of its affiliates.  All rights reserved.

2025-12-20
Asm.  Alex Bores, co-author of the bill, released this statement:  —  “We rejected last-ditch attempts from AI oligarchs to wipe this bill out, and we raised the floor for what AI legislation can look like to keep New Yorkers safe.”
2025-12-20 View on X
Axios

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill's text was modified earlier to more closely resemble California's SB 53

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed the RAISE Act into law Friday, making New York the latest state to have broad safety rules for the most advanced AI models.

In a major reversal, Gov Hochul yielded to the legislature and signed the RAISE act, the AI safety law, which sets a new and strong standard. There are some negotiated changes from the original but it's still a significant bill. Hochul tried to gut and weaken it last week.
2025-12-20 View on X
Axios

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill's text was modified earlier to more closely resemble California's SB 53

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed the RAISE Act into law Friday, making New York the latest state to have broad safety rules for the most advanced AI models.

In a major reversal, Gov Hochul yielded to the legislature and signed the RAISE act, the AI safety law, which sets a new and strong standard.  —  There are some negotiated changes from the original but it's still a significant bill.  Hochul tried to gut and weaken it last week.
2025-12-20 View on X
Axios

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill's text was modified earlier to more closely resemble California's SB 53

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed the RAISE Act into law Friday, making New York the latest state to have broad safety rules for the most advanced AI models.

2025-12-12
BREAKING: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul gutted an AI regulation bill awaiting her signature and replaced it wholesale with a weaker version sought by Big Tech firms. At least two of the groups lobbying on the bill held fundraisers for Hochul in recent weeks. https://prospect.org/... [image]
2025-12-12 View on X
Transformer

Sources: New York's governor proposes rewriting the RAISE Act, the AI bill that passed NY legislature in June, with text copied verbatim from California's SB 53

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is proposing a dramatic rewrite of the RAISE Act, the AI transparency and safety bill …

2025-12-10
Instacart prices vary by 20% or more depending on the customer, despite buying the same item from the same store at the same time.  —  Instacart admits that customers are subject to “pricing tests.”  —  Surveillance pricing is so much more pervasive than we know.  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
2025-12-10 View on X
New York Times

Study: 193 Instacart users across four US cities saw different prices for the same items from the same store at the same time; Instacart says it's running tests

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.

2025-11-25
-cannot assess geographic market effects below the state level -cannot limit rent price decreases or cause landlords to align prices -cannot solicit information in market surveys -cannot discuss nonpublic information in meetings -must use a court-appointed monitor for compliance
2025-11-25 View on X
New York Post

The US DOJ settles its case against RealPage, which it accused of building algorithms that allowed landlords to illegally collude to drive up rental prices

Thomas Barrabi / New York Post :

Here is the apparent settlement: -RealPage cannot use “nonpublic, competitively sensitive information” from landlords to set rent prices -RealPage cannot use active lease data to train its algorithm, only information that is at least 12 months old. https://nypost.com/...
2025-11-25 View on X
New York Post

The US DOJ settles its case against RealPage, which it accused of building algorithms that allowed landlords to illegally collude to drive up rental prices

Thomas Barrabi / New York Post :

2025-10-15
Maybe someday we'll get the emails where the federal government demanded that a private company engage in content moderation and banning of speech. We can call it The Facebook Files or something
2025-10-15 View on X
Reuters

US AG Pam Bondi says that Meta complied with the DOJ's request to take down a Facebook Page that the agency said was being used to harass ICE agents in Chicago

and we're ready to push back if something like this happens again.” Secretary Kristi Noem / @sec_noem : Anti-ICE radicals are using social media apps to dox, threaten, and terroriz...

2025-09-30
Tired: Trump is punishing Brazil because they sentenced his pal Bolsonaro for attempting a coup  —  Wired: Trump is punishing Brazil because their useful central bank payment system is squeezing out PayPal  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...
2025-09-30 View on X
New York Times

How Brazil's Pix digital payment system, adopted by 80%+ of citizens, became a target of the Trump administration, which says it unfairly undercuts US companies

Wired: Trump is punishing Brazil because their useful central bank payment system is squeezing out PayPal  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w... Piyush Mittal / @piyushmittal : Brazil...

2025-09-16
The law, if that matters anymore, says that TikTok must relinquish Chinese control over the algorithm.  —  After nearly a year of delay, China is still going to control the algorithm.  —  www.ft.com/content/550e...
2025-09-16 View on X
Financial Times

China says the US spin-off of TikTok will use ByteDance's Chinese algorithm and the US-agreed framework includes “licensing the algorithm and other IP rights”

Security hawks have raised fears recommendation code could be manipulated to push propaganda

2025-09-03
Judge Mehta on the proposed Chrome divestiture as a remedy in Google's monopolization case: 1-Chrome definitely contributes to Google's search monopoly 2-It's not even as radical as the Microsoft proposed remedy 3-It would hardly break up the company 4-But let's not do it [image]
2025-09-03 View on X
CNBC

US v. Google: a US federal judge rules that Google will not be required to divest Chrome or Android, but it must share Search data with rivals; GOOG jumps 8%+

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the company can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts and must share search data.

2025-07-23
Looks like Trump is trying to back-door the state AI regulatory ban that was rejected in the Senate 99-1. From today's release of the AI “action plan”: [image]
2025-07-23 View on X
Bloomberg

The White House unveils the AI Action Plan, seeking to assert US dominance over China, including proposals to ease permitting for AI infrastructure projects

The Trump administration called for boosting artificial intelligence development in the US by loosening regulations and expanding energy supply …

2025-07-05
Way back in January (left), we noticed that Trump was just ignoring a federal law (the TikTok divestiture law), setting a terrible precedent of an imperial executive. Glad others are catching up. (right) [image]
2025-07-05 View on X
New York Times

FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban

The implications are breathtaking. the line between a normal legal state and exceptions/prerogative state can be shifted at will. Dean Baker / @deanbaker13 : Trump says he can clai...

2025-07-04
Way back in January (left), we noticed that Trump was just ignoring a federal law (the TikTok divestiture law), setting a terrible precedent of an imperial executive. Glad others are catching up. (right) [image]
2025-07-04 View on X
New York Times

FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban

In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.

2025-07-01
The Trump administration bullying Canada to drop a tax on Big Tech is precisely the kind of globalist weaponization of trade policy that MAGA once claimed to be against.  —  It's using trade to forcing governments into policies that would never pass their national legislatures.
2025-07-01 View on X
Associated Press

Canada rescinds the Digital Services Tax targeting US companies, set to go into effect on June 30, “in anticipation of” a US trade deal, as trade talks resume

It's using trade to forcing governments into policies that would never pass their national legislatures. Julie S. Lalonde / @julieslalonde : The fact that we had to spend the last ...

2025-05-07
CFPB decided that protections for people doing installment loans on apps for their groceries wasn't worth the trouble www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/t...
2025-05-07 View on X
CNBC

The US CFPB says it will stop enforcing a Biden-era rule that treats BNPL firms like credit card lenders; Affirm and other BNPL firms had opposed to the rule

For the third time under President Donald Trump, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has pulled back from enforcing a key rule …

2025-04-19
Here's an update on the CFPB mass purge, which is on hold until at least April 28. The judge is very skeptical that the reduction in force was done legally, and the Russ Vought-linked leadership's attempt to explain their thinking only made things look worse. [image]
2025-04-19 View on X
Reuters

A US judge temporarily halts mass firings at the US CFPB after the agency fired between 1,400 and 1,500 workers, eliminating as much as 90% of its workforce

again!  The CFPB has returned over $21 billion to millions of Americans scammed since its founding.  Any cuts to the #CFPB are to rip off working families in favor of big banks and...

2025-04-18
I'm told CFPB just RIF'd its entire Office of Research, including the division that sets the APOR tables, an obscure but incredibly important part of making mortgage markets function. (thread) [image]
2025-04-18 View on X
Wired

Sources: the CFPB terminated more than 1,400 workers, leaving about 200 employees and effectively gutting the agency that Elon Musk previously said to “delete”

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,400 of the agency's 1,700 employees …

The CFPB reduction in force was facilitated by an appeals court ruling last week that pried open a path to fire workers after an “individualized assessment.”  CFPB went ahead and made that assessment to fire 1,500 workers in 4 days.
2025-04-18 View on X
Wired

Sources: the CFPB terminated more than 1,400 workers, leaving about 200 employees and effectively gutting the agency that Elon Musk previously said to “delete”

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,400 of the agency's 1,700 employees …