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Jim Fellinger retweeted
On Oct. 15, @laz_radic joined @ieGovernance’s Tech Foresight Summit in Madrid to discuss how the DMA is changing the state’s role in digital markets.
The discussion examined what this means for innovation, competition, and the justification for regulatory intervention. ⬇️
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What a busy week for cyber and intelligence news. Kudos to all the reporters who have been covering and helping everyone make sense of it all. So grateful for all I learn from my peers on this beat.
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There’s a world of difference between user-authorized agents (Muse, Instinct, Grokbot, etc.) and true unauthorized/rogue agents that could constitute cyberattacks.
Most of the activity described in the Axios story appears to be the former: customers sharing credentials with agents so they can take actions on their behalf. This may violate bank terms requiring humans to log in themselves, but these are in no way cyberattacks.
The direction banks should go is to support user-directed agents. For example, Amex is an authorized connection in Muse, making it easy for users to grant, limit, and revoke access.
Read-only permission levels are a sensible interim step. Several banks already support or are moving toward them. Full write access (with user credentials) is a different risk category and should be approached carefully.
Frightening the public by blurring the line between user-authorized agentic behavior and cyberattacks is irresponsible.
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
Jim Fellinger retweeted
Fast-moving markets make future competition difficult to predict. The same uncertainty applies to future merger harm.
ICLE Academic Affiliate @ProfSchrepel tells @SCOPE_GE why the draft EU Merger Guidelines need theories that can be tested over time. 🔗⬇️
If digital markets are too fast to predict, so is the harm from a digital merger.
@ProfSchrepel (@VU_law) says the uncertainty must cut both ways. He would test the new claims in the draft EU Merger Guidelines against past decisions.
Full interview: youtu.be/g2N-rIxY5vU
Jim Fellinger retweeted
A collective decision to suspend news coverage has prompted an antitrust investigation.
In @usatodayopinion, @RBenSperry examines why the reported circumstances suggest retaliation against protected protest and the risks for editorial independence. 🔗⬇️
Opinion: The freedom to challenge the government cannot depend on whether officials approve of the challenge. usatoday.com/story/opinion/2…
Jim Fellinger retweeted
The funny thing on this decision is that states keep losing in court when they regulate online speech directly. Thus, they are getting creative and are trying a consumer-protection workaround. New Mexico's $25B verdict against Meta today is example number 1. Any content-moderation choice can now be relitigated as an "unfair practice."
Reading through the judgment against Meta and have a few thoughts (a 🧵)
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The data center backlash is not really about resources. It is about fear of AI and fear of the unknown. I spent four days in rural Colorado shadowing a data center startup's 'listening tour.' This story is about what ordinary Americans think about AI and their desire to have a stake in the boom.
David Meyer (@thedmeyer) is the founder of (@DeployStrata), which is trying to build a tiny 12-shipping container data center on a sand lot in the middle of nowhere. During a community meeting, he answered every practical question: Noise, water, power, cleanup. It didn't move the skeptics:
— “I’m willing to bet 90% of this group will raise their hands saying innately I’m against AI and I’m scared to death of AI. I don’t think any of us in this room have any clue how bad this could go.”
— Trump "wants to use China as the blueprint. Have we ever asked the Chinese what life is like over there? Digital ID. It sucks.”
— “Our collective concerns regarding AI, data centers and Flock cameras come down to one primary concern. I address these concerns in one statement: WE DO NOT WANT TO LIVE IN A SURVEILLANCE STATE!!!”
— “What do we need it for? That’s the big question.”
And above all else: what's in it for the community?
To be clear, the resources do matter. But they are often a front for these larger fears over technology, which this specific project exposes by solving all of the resource concerns.
My full dispatch in @PirateWires (with photography by yours truly):
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Reading through the judgment against Meta and have a few thoughts (a 🧵)
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Jim Fellinger retweeted
Is it censorship when a government official asks a platform to remove content that violates its own rules?
It depends!
The key distinction is between asking and coercing. A request is one thing. A threat, explicit or implied, is quite another. That's a First Amendment problem.
The New Hampshire governor urged X to ban the account of the Libertarian Party's former New Hampshire affiliate. A day later, the account was suspended. Was it jawboning?
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Consumers exist?
Consumers determine what gets built, too. As with all technologies, it's supply and demand that determine the outcome.
Lina Khan on AI: "These are individuals that have become used to a certain level of impunity, elite impunity that I think we've talked about in the past as being a broader cultural, social phenomena that results when we're not holding the rich and the powerful to the same rules and the same standards that we do to everybody else.
I think there are a lot of magazine profiles and other assessments looking at what these individuals as a personal matter and their character. I think to me, some of that is a little bit less interesting than this basic question of: Who is deciding in the first instance what trajectory these technologies take?
And whenever you have a tiny number of elites getting to call the shots around this potentially transformational technology, that is gonna be dangerous even if you have the most benevolent, well-meaning people in the driver's seat. It really comes down to the concentration of power."
From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute
Jim Fellinger retweeted
Happening tomorrow in New Delhi, ICLE partners with @_DialogueIndia for “Competition, Innovation, and Growth: Building India’s Digital Economy.”
Panels will address MSME growth, India’s AI sector, and competition, trade, and investment in a changing global economy. Details ⬇️
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Really highlights how competitive video markets are. We watch a ton of long-form video essays on YouTube, and a my broadcast antenna gets me access to DWTS, Survivor, and Traitors during the week. Even though they aren't exact substitutes, they are functionally.
Jim Fellinger retweeted
“Rent controls encourage landlords to delay upkeep” isn’t exactly a strong endorsement of the system?
The Wall Street Journal wants you to believe that rent stabilized apartments are sitting vacant because landlords can’t afford to repair apartments.
The truth is that these landlords delay repairs for years and decades, and are now trying to force New York to let them rent at market value so they can make more money.
We broke it down.
Jim Fellinger retweeted
This is way harder than it looks; still mad I had to follow @JamesCz19 and @KelceeGriffis last year.
Jim Fellinger retweeted
What’s irresponsible is letting people die in preventable car crashes when a safer option exists
Jim Fellinger retweeted
A great event and unique because we brought several data center builders to the briefing. They were able to talk directly to hill staffers about their experiences in the field and share their perspective on the policy discourse.
Thank you @NATEsafety for facilitating this opportunity.
Today at the Rayburn House Office Building, Build American AI Executive Director @NathanLeamerDC, @tschlek of NATE, and @CJohnsonAELI of the American Energy Leadership Institute came together to discuss the jobs, energy investment and local business opportunities behind America’s AI buildout.
The AI reindustrialization of America is building more power, creating good jobs, and giving young people more opportunities to build a career close to home.
Jim Fellinger retweeted
Another good reminder that the antitrust crusade against tech companies was always just about opening the door to micromanaging the rest of the economy.
Jim Fellinger retweeted
Today at the Rayburn House Office Building, Build American AI Executive Director @NathanLeamerDC, @tschlek of NATE, and @CJohnsonAELI of the American Energy Leadership Institute came together to discuss the jobs, energy investment and local business opportunities behind America’s AI buildout.
The AI reindustrialization of America is building more power, creating good jobs, and giving young people more opportunities to build a career close to home.
Jim Fellinger retweeted
Senator Sullivan is a tireless advocate for expanding affordable, high-speed Internet to every part of Alaska.
Today, the FCC announced that we will vote on providing an additional $162 million in support for rural broadband in Alaska.
I look forward to working with @SenDanSullivan to get the job done.
