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GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week.

Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.

Meta might be on the hook for $17.1 billion and a host of app changes under a new kids safety settlement, but it's already spinning the deal to its advantage. After years of being the national punching bag for social media harms, Meta has reached a settlement with 47 US states and several districts and […]

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.

Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead

Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new safeguards across Instagram and Facebook that will change how teens interact with the social media platforms, as well as restrict their use during certain times. […]

Meta to impose daily limit on child social media use in deal with nearly every state.

We keep timelines for a living — rail telemetry, grid filings, catalog censuses. Most weeks the entries don't talk to each other. Then came the twelve days between August 14 and August 26 , when a federal banking regulator, the world's largest cloud, the White House, a corporate spend platform, a $4 billion stablecoin, an anonymous transaction flood, and the Texas grid operator all moved — separately, but in the same direction. We're not going to tell you what it means, because we don't know yet. What we can do is what any good case file does: lay the exhibits on the table, show you the strings, and write the hypothesis down in pencil. The exhibits Aug 14 — The OCC grants conditional approval to World Liberty Trust Company : the presidential family's stablecoin operation gets a path to a federal banking charter. Aug 16 onward — The x402 rail's transaction count detonates: 4–6× baseline for a week, then an all-time record 1.17M settled payments in one 15-hour window at three cents a payment, dollar volume flat. Industrial machine buyers, stress-testing rails in production. Aug 18 — AWS makes Bedrock AgentCore Payments generally available : production agents can autonomously discover and pay x402 endpoints, with a curated Coinbase bazaar in the console. Same day, federal regulators unveil new crypto rules. Aug 19 — Trump hosts the CEOs of Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, Robinhood, and ICE at the White House , SEC Chair in the room, pressing Congress to pass the CLARITY Act. Aug 20 — Ramp switches on agent wallets for 70,000+ businesses: corporate treasuries funding AI agents that spend USDC on Solana. Aug 25 — World Liberty's $4.05B USD1 goes native on the Canton Network — the institutional chain Wall Street banks use for tokenized settlement. Aug 26 — ERCOT confirms it will audit ~300 proposed data centers and pause new approvals : the physical layer gets told prove you're real before you plug in . And the scheduled exhibits: Sept 15 — Cloudflare's default wall against mix

More than 15 politicians from across the country have signed on to the AI Pact, vowing to regulate data centers and AI. “We’ve got to get this right,” says Senate candidate Dan Osborn of Nebraska.

Republicans demanded that parties and fundraising committees be given lowest ad rates.

Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a trial that could have cost it hundreds of billions of dollars. Under the terms of the settlement, which resolves claims by a larger group of 47 states and several districts and territories, […]

In the span of a few hours on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would be implementing a fee of over $103,000 on H-1B visas, and news broke that the State Department plans on revoking the visas of up to 200,000 asylum seekers - which, according to The Associated Press, would be […]

Polestar said the Trump administration strung it along for months before finally rejecting its request to continue selling its electric vehicles in the US under a rule outlawing vehicles with connected software from China. In an August 18th letter sent to dealers and obtained by The Verge, Polestar said it doesn't have a clear answer […]

Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and autonomously hacked another company last month. The investigation seeks to determine whether OpenAI's safety practices violated state consumer protection laws and pose a risk to Alabama […]

Zillow and Redfin reached a settlement with the FTC, which requires Redfin to reenter the rental advertising business.

The creator of the world's first 3D-printed gun claims he's developed a way to thwart government-mandated software meant to block 3D printers from making firearms. It's an opening volley in what's shaping up to be an evolving battle between regulators trying to stem the tide of ghost guns and individuals trying to create workarounds. Cody […]

The FTC and Zillow have announced a settlement that ends the case alleging that a 2025 "partnership" between Zillow and Redfin violated antitrust laws. The FTC had alleged Zillow agreed to pay Redfin to syndicate its listings, while Redfin would end its own advertising contracts and promise not to compete with Zillow for multifamily listings. […]

Robotaxis are expanding. So is the fight over the rules governing them. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul withdrew a proposal earlier this year that would have opened the door to driverless robotaxis outside New York City after taxi drivers, unions, and state lawmakers opposed it. Six months later, commercial driverless service remains illegal in […]

Nvidia worker indicted after Jensen Huang scolded Supermicro for AI server smuggling.

Microsoft has outlined an AI governance architecture spanning nine governance domains and four functions: policy, control, visibility, and proof. The approach connects policies with runtime enforcement, continuous evaluation, observability, identity, security, and audit evidence to help organizations verify governance requirements as AI applications and agents operate in production. By Leela Kumili