Made in the USA month came and went. Let’s check the score: Lawsuits: 0 Settlements: 0 Refunds: $0 Penalties: $0

We asked Americans if six different types of online scams or attacks had happened to them. Overall, about three-quarters (73%) say at least one has, with 32% saying it’s happened in the past year. 🧵👇

we have a ton of stuff to launch over the next couple of months--new models, products, features, and more. please bear with us through some probable hiccups and capacity crunches. although it may be slightly choppy, we think you'll really love what we've created for you!

Disturbing new FTC data showing four-fold jump in impersonation scams affecting older adults. Combined losses eported by older adults who lost more than $100,000 increased eight-fold, from $55 million in 2020 to $445 million in 2024. ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

GPT-5 is good at writing software. here it is making a web app to to learn french, with feature requests including a snake-like game with a mouse and cheese and french words. (you can probably come up with better variations of snake--please give it a try and share!) "voila"

Here we go! Judge Seeborg has queued up the second #BigTech #privacy jury trial starting next week in San Francisco between Google and lawyers led by David Boies over the company's data collection disclosures. As always, MLex will be there for the full trial.

This is a remarkable claim given what I have heard alleged that Elon does to manipulate X to benefit himself and his own companies and harm his competitors and people he doesn't like.

Grok is the smartest AI in the world on the toughest tests and just came first by far in coding, but is not mentioned at all under “AI” by Apple!

Agree, global regulation req'd. Commercial surveillance marketing is globally ubiquitous, adopted by retail, media networks, gaming, outdoor ads, etc. While Google/Meta leaders, it has become dominant model, now expanding via Gen AI.

Finally some useful tech, even if it can’t quite stack the facecloths

Fascinating chart showing #carbon emmissions dropping in China in the first half of 2025 relative to the first half of last year, but climbing in the US. China down by 2.7 percent; US up by 4.2 percent. carbonmonitor.org/variation #climatechange

Under Lina Khan, FTC fought to ban Meta from profiting off kids. Now, it looks like Andrew Ferguson wants to hand them a sweetheart deal. Makes sense — Meta has clearly cleaned up its act.

Biden officials who were chased out of office have nothing better to do than sit on social media and lie. There is no deal being negotiated with Meta. Don’t let these losers fool you.

BREAKING: DC Mayor Bowser announces that the District and the Trump administration have reached an agreement that DC Police Chief Pamela Smith will remain in command after last night’s attempt by AG Bondi to install DEA chief Terry Cole as emergency police commissioner.

Breaking: Federal judge grants injunction blocking FTC investigative subpoena of Media Matters

#FirstAmendment FTC