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The week of Monday, November 6, 2023: The AI conundrum, FDR & the NatCons, taxation, endangered species, energy, and much, much more.

The European Union is studying metaverse regulation, said Margrethe Vestager, adding that authorities needed to understand the space better.

An essay on the EU Digital Markets Act and Apple's Update on apps distributed in the European Union (and some personal history)

On Friday, the Supreme Court will consider cases to hear in the coming term, among them National Pork Producers Council v. Ross. Arising out of the Ninth...

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Last week, we published a piece assessing the increasingly hostile environment which the cryptocurrency industry faces in the US.  The sector is being squeezed following a year that saw multiple scandals flood the industry, highlighted by the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX in November and the Terra ecosystem last May.  American regulators have begun to […]

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Politicians are attacking a safe and important class of pesticides – neonicotinoids – with unwarranted bans and restrictions. These policies will be devastating to farmers, costly to consumers, and damaging to the environment.

I signed the letter calling for a six-month pause in training AI models more powerful than GPT-4. Not because I think six months is enough time to solve all problems (it isn't), or because a magic recipe for AI alignment is near (nope), but because the letter pushes for "robust AI governance systems" that I support, and a six-month pause might open up space for cooperation, attention, and regulation.

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Efforts to regulate or ban the drug have fizzled, leaving it in purgatory

There's an old military adage: "never volunteer for anything."  At first blush, it might seem downright unpatriotic.  But perhaps this saying was coined by an officer who...

(1st UPDATE) David Thaddeus Alba is the second Sugar Regulatory Administration chief to resign under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

Article URL: https://fee.org/articles/the-effects-of-airline-regulation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36742118 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Joe Biden's bureaucrats bring back an Obama-era power grab just for fun.

Experimentation is the right strategy—as long as regulators can learn from one another.

EU lawmakers move forward with draft law to regulate development of AI-powering products such as ChatGPT

India does not plan to regulate the growth of AI within the South Asian market, identifying the sector as a "significant and strategic" area for the nation. This stance arrives at a time when numerous voices are calling for increased scrutiny of the rapidly advancing technology. The Ministry of Electronics and IT said in a […]