The proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. merger is illegal and must be blocked. @WGAWest and @WGAEast are bringing this case to protect workers, consumers, and American culture from this catastrophic merger. I am immensely proud to represent them alongside my talented colleagues. More to come.

Could not agree more with @JoeVanWye, and cheering @RepBeccaB on! “Few members of the Judiciary Committee, or the House more broadly, have demonstrated Rep. Balint’s commitment to strengthening and enforcing the antitrust laws over the past four years. She’s made clear her interest in leading the Antitrust Subcommittee, and I believe she would be exceptionally well positioned to build on the legacy of Chairs Nadler and [former Rep. David] Cicilline,” Joseph Van Wye, a senior adviser at Cuneo, Gilbert, Flannery & LaDuca, LLP, an antitrust and consumer protection law firm, told the Prospect.

Love to see it — @geneburrus is one of the best minds around on this.

Competition is good, especially in the antitrust podcast space. Excited to check out @HawAllensworth and @johnmarknewman riff on "Lawless Antitrust."

“No tech giant has been more aggressive in putting AI in front of schoolchildren than Google. The search engine juggernaut’s ubiquitous presence in American classrooms through Chromebooks and its software partnerships with schools have provided a critical launchpad for its AI tools to reach kids. But the rollout has helped push many students to become academically and emotionally dependent on AI, according to interviews with more than 60 teachers, school officials, parents, children and clinicians. Google’s own researchers have written that the technology can pose elevated risks to children, who struggle to distinguish chatbots from human interaction, and has potential for cognitive and emotional harm, according to interviews with current and former Google employees and a review of more than a dozen Google research papers.”

“For the past 40 years we’ve let large businesses and the richest Americans concentrate wealth on the theory that at some point, later on, the winnings would reach everyone. Unfortunately, that ‘later’ never came. Making things worse, the economic imbalances in our time are more varied than the simple divide between rich and poor. We also have economic divides between geographic regions, between generations, between small and large companies, between employers and employees. And now, seemingly, we have a divide between the tech industry and everyone else: We’re often being told that if left alone, A.I. is a tide that will lift all boats — but the skeptics have history on their side.”