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    {
      "id": 19262,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/08/13/the-data-center-chessboard-has-no-pause-button",
      "title": "The Data Center Chessboard Has No Pause Button",
      "summary": "The whole country ostensibly wants America to win the artificial intelligence (AI) race. A striking number, however, would prefer someone else’s town to host the data centers, power plants, transmission lines, and cooling systems required to run it. Adam Smith knew the type. In “The Theory of Moral Sentiments,” he warned against the “man of ... The Data Center Chessboard Has No Pause Button The post The Data Center Chessboard Has No Pause Button appeared first on Truth on the Market .",
      "authors": "Jeffrey E. Depp",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T17:53:20.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19262"
    },
    {
      "id": 18863,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/08/12/copy-paste-compensate-nigerias-misguided-bid-to-make-big-tech-pay-for-news",
      "title": "Copy, Paste, Compensate: Nigeria’s Misguided Bid to Make Big Tech Pay for News",
      "summary": "Nigeria has looked south and seen a $40 million payday for the press. The trouble is that it misread both the price tag and the fine print—and its attempt to collect may leave Nigerian publishers with fewer readers and no comparable payday. On July 6, Nigeria’s Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) announced investigations ... Copy, Paste, Compensate: Nigeria’s Misguided Bid to Make Big Tech Pay for News The post Copy, Paste, Compensate: Nigeria’s Misguided Bid to Make B",
      "authors": "Onyeka Aralu",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-12T21:01:40.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18863"
    },
    {
      "id": 18517,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/08/11/much-ado-about-no-news-australias-latest-plan-to-make-platforms-pay",
      "title": "Much Ado About No News: Australia’s Latest Plan to Make Platforms Pay",
      "summary": "Australia’s latest plan to make digital platforms pay for journalism has an unusual feature. A platform can owe money even if it carries no journalism at all. The government calls this an “incentive.” On Aug. 3, the Australian government finalized legislation establishing the News Bargaining Incentive (NBI). The government first proposed the NBI in December ... Much Ado About No News: Australia’s Latest Plan to Make Platforms Pay The post Much Ado About No News: Australia’s Latest Plan to Make P",
      "authors": "Giuseppe Colangelo",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-08-11T16:04:19.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18517"
    },
    {
      "id": 15019,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/30/from-google-fines-to-french-wine-the-trade-case-against-the-dma",
      "title": "From Google Fines to French Wine: The Trade Case Against the DMA",
      "summary": "Brussels has spent two years testing how much regulatory pain Washington will tolerate before reaching for the tariff book. President Donald Trump may have supplied the answer. His threatened Section 301 investigation—a process that allows the United States to retaliate against foreign practices that unfairly burden U.S. commerce—could turn Europe’s digital rulebook into a transatlantic ... From Google Fines to French Wine: The Trade Case Against the DMA The post From Google Fines to French Wine",
      "authors": "Dirk Auer",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation,finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-07-30T18:47:48.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15019"
    },
    {
      "id": 15020,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/30/brussels-tries-to-fix-the-gdpr-without-making-it-worse",
      "title": "Brussels Tries to Fix the GDPR Without Making It Worse",
      "summary": "Brussels has spent years proving that the easiest way to “fix” the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is to give more power to the institutions that made it unworkable. The Digital Omnibus initially looked ready to continue that tradition. Now, somewhat improbably, several EU governments appear determined to try actual reform instead. Ireland assumed the ... Brussels Tries to Fix the GDPR Without Making It Worse The post Brussels Tries to Fix the GDPR Without Making It Worse appeared firs",
      "authors": "Mikolaj Barczentewicz",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance",
      "published_at": "2026-07-30T14:04:01.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15020"
    },
    {
      "id": 14662,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/29/too-many-cooks-spoil-the-settlement",
      "title": "Too Many Cooks Spoil the Settlement",
      "summary": "In American antitrust, clearing the federal gate increasingly means arriving at the state turnstiles. State attorneys general play a valuable role when harms are local or federal investigators miss key facts. But serial challenges to nationally integrated conduct turn that safeguard into a standing invitation to relitigate. The result is a system in which no ... Too Many Cooks Spoil the Settlement The post Too Many Cooks Spoil the Settlement appeared first on Truth on the Market .",
      "authors": "Alden Abbott",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-07-29T17:47:52.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14662"
    },
    {
      "id": 13885,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/27/the-ftcs-ai-accuracy-statement-needs-a-fact-check",
      "title": "The FTC’s AI Accuracy Statement Needs a Fact Check",
      "summary": "A policy statement about accuracy should, at minimum, be precise. The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Proposed Policy Statement Concerning the Suppression of Accuracy in Artificial Intelligence Systems (AI Policy Statement) struggles with that assignment. The International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) submitted comments in response to the FTC’s request for input, and this post ... The FTC’s AI Accuracy Statement Needs a Fact Check The post The FTC’s AI Accuracy Statement Needs a Fact Check",
      "authors": "Daniel J. Gilman",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-07-27T20:03:33.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13885"
    },
    {
      "id": 13237,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/23/open-models-closed-minds-ai-policy-keeps-regulating-the-wrong-thing",
      "title": "Open Models, Closed Minds: AI Policy Keeps Regulating the Wrong Thing",
      "summary": "Artificial intelligence has found a new way to make policymakers nervous. The latest fight concerns less what AI can do than who may build it, copy it, distribute it, and decide when those activities become a security threat. That fight will help define AI governance, the rules and institutions used to manage AI development, access, ... Open Models, Closed Minds: AI Policy Keeps Regulating the Wrong Thing The post Open Models, Closed Minds: AI Policy Keeps Regulating the Wrong Thing appeared fir",
      "authors": "Kristian Stout",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-07-23T18:00:46.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13237"
    },
    {
      "id": 13238,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/23/europes-privacy-paradox-fort-knox-for-search-data-a-checkbox-for-your-phone",
      "title": "Europe’s Privacy Paradox: Fort Knox for Search Data, a Checkbox for Your Phone",
      "summary": "Brussels has developed a curious theory of digital privacy. Anonymous search queries need audits, screening, and a security cordon. Your messages, microphone, and screen can make do with a checkbox. That is the logic running through two decisions the European Commission adopted last week involving the same company, under the same law, on the same ... Europe’s Privacy Paradox: Fort Knox for Search Data, a Checkbox for Your Phone The post Europe’s Privacy Paradox: Fort Knox for Search Data, a Chec",
      "authors": "Dirk Auer",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance,transparency",
      "published_at": "2026-07-23T11:00:31.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13238"
    },
    {
      "id": 12441,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/21/competition-laws-fairness-gap-why-better-procedure-requires-better-incentives",
      "title": "Competition Law’s Fairness Gap: Why Better Procedure Requires Better Incentives",
      "summary": "Everyone agrees competition enforcement should be fair. Agreement gets shakier once fairness starts costing agencies time, discretion, or victories. Competition authorities often warn that procedure should not become an obstacle to enforcement. Fair enough. Antitrust investigations can be slow, document-heavy, and vulnerable to delay tactics. A firm with deep pockets may try to turn “process” ... Competition Law’s Fairness Gap: Why Better Procedure Requires Better Incentives The post Competition",
      "authors": "Alden Abbott",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "bias-fairness,regulation,finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-07-21T16:51:58.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12441"
    },
    {
      "id": 12061,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/20/europe-wants-tech-champions-then-makes-them-share-the-trophy",
      "title": "Europe Wants Tech Champions, Then Makes Them Share the Trophy",
      "summary": "Europe wants its own technology champions. It just seems less comfortable with what champions look like once they arrive. The European Commission’s latest Digital Markets Act (DMA) decisions capture that tension. Europe wants more innovation, investment, and globally competitive digital platforms. Yet when a company assembles the data, technology, distribution, and complementary services needed to ... Europe Wants Tech Champions, Then Makes Them Share the Trophy The post Europe Wants Tech Champi",
      "authors": "Alden Abbott",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-07-20T19:19:32.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12061"
    },
    {
      "id": 11451,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/17/brazils-gatekeeper-bill-gets-a-tuneup-not-a-rethink",
      "title": "Brazil’s Gatekeeper Bill Gets a Tuneup, Not a Rethink",
      "summary": "Brazil may soon become the first country in the Americas to regulate digital platforms before they do anything wrong. Bill 4,675/2025 would let the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) designate large technology companies as having “systemic relevance” and impose special obligations without first proving anticompetitive conduct or consumer harm. That is a substantial change ... Brazil’s Gatekeeper Bill Gets a Tuneup, Not a Rethink The post Brazil’s Gatekeeper Bill Gets a Tuneup, No",
      "authors": "Dario Oliveira Neto",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation,military-security",
      "published_at": "2026-07-17T14:50:27.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11451"
    },
    {
      "id": 11452,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/17/the-missing-rival-china-and-the-limits-of-ai-antitrust",
      "title": "The Missing Rival: China and the Limits of AI Antitrust",
      "summary": "The standard AI competition story has plenty of supposed villains. It just keeps leaving out one of the biggest. Regulators and academics warn that a small group of firms—including Amazon, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, with Microsoft and Meta sometimes added—will dominate generative artificial intelligence. Their advantages in computing power, capital, data, and distribution will harden ... The Missing Rival: China and the Limits of AI Antitrust The post The Missing Rival: China and the Limits",
      "authors": "Mario Zúñiga",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-07-17T12:00:08.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11452"
    },
    {
      "id": 11087,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/16/a-patent-a-blood-test-and-20-years-of-waiting",
      "title": "A Patent, a Blood Test, and 20 Years of Waiting",
      "summary": "A blood test now helps doctors decide, in about 15 minutes, whether a patient with a suspected brain injury needs a CT scan. It took about 20 years to get there. That gap between scientific promise and clinical use tells us more about American innovation policy than most congressional hearings ever will. At one such ... A Patent, a Blood Test, and 20 Years of Waiting The post A Patent, a Blood Test, and 20 Years of Waiting appeared first on Truth on the Market .",
      "authors": "Jeffrey E. Depp",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation,healthcare",
      "published_at": "2026-07-16T21:48:04.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11087"
    },
    {
      "id": 11088,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/16/lightning-in-a-bottleneck-how-regulatory-gridlock-is-choking-americas-energy-boom",
      "title": "Lightning in a Bottleneck: How Regulatory Gridlock Is Choking America’s Energy Boom",
      "summary": "America’s power grid has plenty of new customers and no shortage of new ideas. What it lacks is a regulatory system capable of connecting the two. Artificial intelligence data centers, advanced manufacturing, and cryptocurrency operations are driving electricity demand sharply higher. Yet the rules for connecting new power sources and major users remain slow, fragmented, ... Lightning in a Bottleneck: How Regulatory Gridlock Is Choking America’s Energy Boom The post Lightning in a Bottleneck: Ho",
      "authors": "Alden Abbott",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-07-16T14:40:47.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11088"
    },
    {
      "id": 10093,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/13/private-credit-public-panic-why-life-insurers-are-stronger-than-the-headlines-suggest",
      "title": "Private Credit, Public Panic: Why Life Insurers Are Stronger Than the Headlines Suggest",
      "summary": "Private credit has become the financial system’s latest designated villain: opaque, fast-growing, and—depending on the headline—one bad quarter away from dragging insurers, banks, and retirees down with it. For the past two years, warnings about life insurers’ private-credit investments have become a staple of financial commentary. In 2024, the International Monetary Fund cautioned that private ... Private Credit, Public Panic: Why Life Insurers Are Stronger Than the Headlines Suggest The post P",
      "authors": "Julian Morris",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-07-13T18:21:44.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10093"
    },
    {
      "id": 2472,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/08/android-and-the-art-of-regulatory-self-harm",
      "title": "Android and the Art of Regulatory Self-Harm",
      "summary": "Europe keeps asking where its technology champions are. In Google Android, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) offered part of the answer: build a successful platform, and Brussels may spend the next decade treating its architecture as evidence. The CJEU’s final judgment in Google Android, handed down last week, will be celebrated ... Android and the Art of Regulatory Self-Harm The post Android and the Art of Regulatory Self-Harm appeared first on Truth on the Market .",
      "authors": "Alden Abbott",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-07-08T12:57:42.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2472"
    },
    {
      "id": 2473,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/03/the-fatal-conceit-gets-a-gpu-cluster-bernie-sanders-plan-to-socialize-ai",
      "title": "The Fatal Conceit Gets a GPU Cluster: Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Socialize AI",
      "summary": "The American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act rests on a sweeping claim about the ownership of value created by artificial intelligence. Because AI models are trained on data generated by the public, the bill treats the resulting gains as a public resource subject to state control and redistribution. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) proposal would require ... The Fatal Conceit Gets a GPU Cluster: Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Socialize AI The post The Fatal Conceit Gets a GPU Cluster: Bernie Sanders’ Plan t",
      "authors": "Jeffrey E. Depp",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-07-03T20:31:55.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2473"
    },
    {
      "id": 2474,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/02/killer-theories-and-acqui-hire-alibis",
      "title": "Killer Theories and Acqui-Hire Alibis",
      "summary": "Antitrust agencies have a habit of giving new labels to old anxieties. In artificial intelligence, the latest worry is that partnerships between large technology firms and startups are not partnerships at all, but mergers in clever disguises. In the first article in this series, we examined how Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) has ... Killer Theories and Acqui-Hire Alibis The post Killer Theories and Acqui-Hire Alibis appeared first on Truth on the Market .",
      "authors": "Dario Oliveira Neto",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "military-security",
      "published_at": "2026-07-02T17:47:06.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2474"
    },
    {
      "id": 2475,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/07/02/much-ado-about-removal-the-supreme-court-the-ftc-and-the-end-of-independent-ish-agencies",
      "title": "Much Ado About Removal: The Supreme Court, the FTC, and the End of Independent-ish Agencies",
      "summary": "For roughly 90 years, Humphrey’s Executor had been the constitutional law equivalent of a load-bearing antique: an awkward, if still functioning, architectural kludge, much admired in certain circles, but increasingly hard to rationalize. Earlier this week, finally, the U.S. Supreme Court replaced it. In Trump v. Slaughter, the Court overruled that 1935 opinion. The president ... Much Ado About Removal: The Supreme Court, the FTC, and the End of Independent-ish Agencies The post Much Ado About R",
      "authors": "Daniel J. Gilman",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-07-02T14:23:56.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2475"
    },
    {
      "id": 2477,
      "url": "https://truthonthemarket.com/2026/06/30/brussels-goes-gate-hunting-aws-azure-and-the-dmas-cloud-problem",
      "title": "Brussels Goes Gate-Hunting: AWS, Azure, and the DMA’s Cloud Problem",
      "summary": "The European Commission wants to treat cloud computing as a gatekeeper market. That is the wrong diagnosis, and it would lead to the wrong cure. The Commission’s preliminary view that Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure should be designated as Digital Markets Act (DMA) gatekeepers for cloud-computing services is more than another skirmish in ... Brussels Goes Gate-Hunting: AWS, Azure, and the DMA’s Cloud Problem The post Brussels Goes Gate-Hunting: AWS, Azure, and the DMA’s Cloud Probl",
      "authors": "Alden Abbott",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "healthcare",
      "published_at": "2026-06-30T20:02:37.000Z",
      "source": "Truth on the Market (digital regulation)",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2477"
    }
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