During a two-hour hearing in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, top executives from Waymo and Tesla urged lawmakers to act on long-stalled legislation to speed up the deployment of self-driving cars on public roads. But after two hours of questions and answers on a range of hot-button topics, including robotaxi safety, legal liability, remote control … Read more
Hello and welcome Regulator, newsletter for Rod subscribers for the most ambitious crossover event ever: the endless war between technology and politics. Not logged in yet? Come on, do it! Washington may seem slower than Silicon Valley. But that’s because it’s more turbulent. To get anything done, we have to navigate the vast amount of … Read more
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is pressing Google for more information about its plans to build a checkout function into its Gemini AI chatbot. In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Warren expresses concerns that the integration could allow Google and retailers to “exploit sensitive user data” or “manipulate consumers into spending more and paying … Read more
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos was dropped amid a culture war in Congress on Tuesday as he testified before a Senate subcommittee about the company’s attempt to buy a large chunk of Warner Bros. Discovery. The hearing before the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee highlighted a number of traditional concerns about mergers on both sides of the … Read more
On Tuesday, the Justice Department and plaintiffs in the antitrust case against Google filed cross-appeals, the DOJ’s antitrust division announced in a post on Just a few weeks ago, Google itself filed an appeal seeking a stay of remedies ordered last year by DC District Court Judge Amit Mehta. These remedies included requiring Google to … Read more