Regulatory signals in Brazil, Colombia, and the UK suggest ultra-processed food is approaching an inflection analogous to tobacco in the 1980s — the scientific consensus is consolidating and the political coalition is forming.
A 2025 federal court ruling applying product liability principles to an AI system's harmful output — and rejecting the Section 230 defense — is the most consequential AI law development since the question was first raised. The framework it establishes will reach every AI deployment in consumer-facing contexts.
Court decisions and regulatory drafts across the US, EU, and UK are creating an AI liability framework that is neither what the tech industry wanted nor what critics demanded — and it will reshape deployment calculus.
The resurgence of antitrust enforcement is being read as populist politics against Big Tech — the structural analysis reveals a genuine revision of the consumer welfare standard with implications far beyond technology.
The first phase of surveillance capitalism — behavioral data collection for advertising targeting — is well documented. The second phase, in which behavioral data is used for credit, insurance, employment, and social control, is less visible and more consequential.
After forty years of weak enforcement, regulators have declared war on big tech. The legal victories are real. The structural change has not arrived.
The decades-long conservative legal project against administrative power has finally arrived at the Supreme Court. What it replaces, if anything, is the most consequential open question in American governance.
TikTok taught us what the attention economy really is. Now that its fate is uncertain, we have to decide what we actually want from the platforms that shape our minds.