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The EPA Takes Its Thumb Off the Power Switch

Power-plant rules do more than regulate pollution. They can also regulate competitors out of the market. That is the overlooked significance of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent repeal of most Biden administration greenhouse-gas standards for power plants. The move is an environmental-policy reversal and also a competition-policy reform. The final rule is only a The EPA Takes Its Thumb Off the Power Switch

Tap Your Own Brakes: AI Safety and Antitrust

Frontier artificial-intelligence (AI) labs may have good reasons to tap the brakes. The antitrust question begins when they all reach for the same pedal.  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s proposal to “pace the frontier” has become a rallying point for AI companies interested in coordinating a slowdown in capability development. His plan calls for embedded outside Tap Your Own Brakes: AI Safety and Antitrust

Brussels Writes the Answer Key

Ask Brussels what ChatGPT is, and you get two answers. Under the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), the European Union regulates it as artificial intelligence. On Aug. 31, the European Commission supplied another answer when it designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act (DSA). Each classification comes with Brussels Writes the Answer Key

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