State lawmakers are telling streamers to shhhhhh their ads. Online gamblers are flooding Florida help lines now that sports betting is legal. Some Sunshine State lawmakers want to…
Read more Lawmakers Seek Quieter Ads and Less … Free Speech?President Donald Trump will give the first State of the Union address of his second term tomorrow. He’s expected to defend his economic record and restate his position…
Read more 4 Questions About Trump’s State of the UnionHello and happy Friday! We have just one more week of February, which means we’re inching ever closer to spring. I’m Sidney Slon, and here’s the news we…
Read more ICE, Inflation and AI Ethics: The Week in ReviewWhat do Levi Strauss, spice-maker McCormick, BMW and Porsche, Cincinnati’s Structural Systems Repair Group and 16 major drug makers have in common? They’re all hiking prices to cope…
Read more More Price Increases Are Coming in 2026Happy Friday folks, Seth Cline here. Before we dive into the news, a quick programming note: Decision Points is off Monday for MLK Day, but we’ll be back…
Read more Fighting Deepfakes and Petro-states: The Week in NewsNew York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to ban AI-generated images from state politics. Canada may restrict “deepfakes” after the uproar over Grok “undressing” photos. New Jersey restricts phone…
Read more AI Pushback: Governments Eye Action on Political Ads, DeepfakesThe race to embrace artificial intelligence for its promise of unrivaled productivity may not be a conventional political story. But implementing it without proper guardrails raises an array…
Read more The Teddy Bear Said What? And Other Dispatches From the AI FrontierIt’s the end of the week that marked the end of a record-breaking government shutdown. Federal workers went back to their jobs yesterday. Here’s a look at what…
Read more Weekly Roundup: Anatomy of a Cave and a $2,000 Check?We’re one year away from the 2026 midterm elections and a day before voters in New Jersey and Virginia elect governors – as good a time as any…
Read more The Democrats Have a Democrat ProblemWell, well, if it isn’t another Friday come upon us. And Halloween, no less. Fret not: We only have treats for you here. Here’s what we covered at…
Read more This Week in Economics: Tariffs, SNAP Fears and Holiday SpendingIn other words, you’re out of a job. Like tens of thousands of other corporate-speak victims. The causes vary widely: turbulent markets, President Donald Trump’s tariffs on pretty…
Read more It’s Not You, It’s ‘Removing Layers’: Wave of Corporate Layoffs (And Lingo) Hits WorkersPresident Donald Trump’s approach to trade negotiations landed the U.S. in a familiar place over the weekend. Announced with fanfare back in April on “Liberation Day,” the sweeping…
Read more The Art of the Tariff Deal: U.S. Nears Trade Agreement With ChinaConstruction on the Trump administration’s controversial White House ballroom with a price tag in the hundreds of millions of dollars began this week and has stirred up considerable…
Read more Four Things to Know About Trump’s New White House BallroomFriday? Already? Guess we’ll take it. Monday I dug into high-quality AI video generation that has the potential to make “video or it didn’t happen” obsolete, because the…
Read more Bad News for Farmers and Good News for News: Weekly RoundupThey were all created with OpenAI’s Sora 2 video app, released Sept. 30. And they’re pretty darn good. And that could be pretty darn bad. The software allows…
Read more New AI Tool Makes Faking Reality Frighteningly EasyIn the flurry of federal government action since January, you may have missed one noteworthy thing that didn’t happen. Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump 1.0…
Read more The Case of the Missing Federal BudgetIt’s a ritual that economists, investors and businesses eagerly anticipate the first Friday of each month – checking to see how many people joined or left the labor…
Read more Missing Data Leaves Economy ‘Flying Blind’I’ve been pretty public about my admiration for crime analyst Jeff Asher and his Real-Time Crime Index, a tool that lets you take a deep dive into all…
Read more The U.S. Is on Track for Its Lowest Murder Rate Ever