The market for artificial intelligence is competitive, evolving rapidly, and antitrust enforcers should be wary of intervening, a senior White House official said. When it comes to AI, “concentration does not seem to be a problem here right now,” said Ryan Baasch , the deputy director of the National Economic Council at the White House, during an antitrust event in Washington Thursday. “We’re bles...
The market for artificial intelligence is competitive, evolving rapidly, and antitrust enforcers should be wary of intervening, a senior White House official said. When it comes to AI, “concentration does not seem to be a problem here right now,” said Ryan Baasch , the deputy director of the National Economic Council at the White House, during an antitrust event in Washington Thursday. “We’re blessed to have at least five frontier AI labs,” Baasch said. “Every week you see one lab’s model leapfrogging the other in some benchmark, that’s a blessing.” In his role at the NEC — Baasch, who was recently under consideration to be a commissioner at the US Federal Trade Commission — advises the president on technology policy and competition issues. He advised caution on aggressive antitrust enforcement during his speech, saying it’s akin to predicting the future. “You better be damn sure that when you are looking into the crystal ball that you are going to producing a good outcome if you take action,” Baasch said. And if not, “maybe that should be pushing you in the direction of, well ‘I should exercise discretion over this.’” Baasch’s view on enforcement in artificial intelligence markets represents a sharp change from that under former President Joe Biden , which prioritized investigations across the market, including semiconductors, cloud computing and consumer-facing applications like chatbots. Under Biden, the FTC and DOJ opened up investigations of companies including Microsoft Corp. and Nvidia Corp. that are examining whether their role in AI is anticompetitive. Those probes remain ongoing. Consumer protection law is often a better tool for addressing harms such as high prices, Baasch said. “This tool, antitrust, is a particularly tricky one to use. It’s easy by contrast to identify where a business is defrauding consumers,” he said. “It’s a lot more challenging to say the marketplace does not look right, that concentration is off and we think that is going to produc...
Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), the global on-demand streaming and gaming platform, closed Thursday at $93.32, up 1.13%. The stock moved higher as investors reacted to fresh subscription price hikes. Investors will watch how pricing power and live-sports execution affect subscriber and re
Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), the global on-demand streaming and gaming platform, closed Thursday at $93.32, up 1.13%. The stock moved higher as investors reacted to fresh subscription price hikes. Investors will watch how pricing power and live-sports execution affect subscriber and re
LOS ANGELES, March 26, 2026--The Brand Agency is proud to have been named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026. This year’s list shines a spotlight on businesses that are shaping industry and culture through their innovations. Alongside the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, Fast Company recognizes 720 honorees across 59 sectors and regions.
LOS ANGELES, March 26, 2026--The Brand Agency is proud to have been named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026. This year’s list shines a spotlight on businesses that are shaping industry and culture through their innovations. Alongside the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, Fast Company recognizes 720 honorees across 59 sectors and regions.
Snap (NYSE:SNAP) , social media and advertising platform, closed Thursday at $4.01, down 10.69%. The stock fell after the European Commission opened a formal Digital Services Act investigation into Snapchat’s child safety practices. Investors are watching potential regulatory penalties and compliance costs. Trading volume reached 104.1 million shares, coming in about 120% above its three-month ave...
Snap (NYSE:SNAP) , social media and advertising platform, closed Thursday at $4.01, down 10.69%. The stock fell after the European Commission opened a formal Digital Services Act investigation into Snapchat’s child safety practices. Investors are watching potential regulatory penalties and compliance costs. Trading volume reached 104.1 million shares, coming in about 120% above its three-month average of 47.4 million shares. Snap IPO'd in 2017 and has fallen 83% since going public. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) fell 1.74% to 6,477, while the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) dropped 2.38% to 21,408 as rising oil prices weighed on markets. Within social media peers, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) plunged 7.96% to close at $547.74 and Pinterest (NYSE:PINS) fell 3.85% and finished at $17.96 as investors reacted to landmark legal decisions. Continue reading
As many organizations celebrate outcome, some are skeptical as to what it means for privacy protections The verdict in a landmark social media trial that Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products has sparked calls for reform across borders. International human rights and tech freedom groups issued statements after the decision, praising jurors for holding social media companies acc...
As many organizations celebrate outcome, some are skeptical as to what it means for privacy protections The verdict in a landmark social media trial that Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products has sparked calls for reform across borders. International human rights and tech freedom groups issued statements after the decision, praising jurors for holding social media companies accountable for harms to children and urging tech giants to change their design features to ensure children are safe. Amnesty International said in a statement on Thursday that “this court decision is clear: these platforms are unsafe by design and meaningful change is urgently needed”. Continue reading...
Scharfsinn86/iStock via Getty Images I rate Aeva Technologies, Inc. ( AEVA ) a Hold. Aeva has a technological single-seller status in Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave [FMCW] silicon photonics that are validated by Nvidia ( NVDA ), Daimler ( DTGHF , DTRUY), and Top-Tier OEMs. The main point I consider is that the shift from legacy Time-of-Flight [ToF] LiDAR to FMCW for L3 autonomy is a structura...
Scharfsinn86/iStock via Getty Images I rate Aeva Technologies, Inc. ( AEVA ) a Hold. Aeva has a technological single-seller status in Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave [FMCW] silicon photonics that are validated by Nvidia ( NVDA ), Daimler ( DTGHF , DTRUY), and Top-Tier OEMs. The main point I consider is that the shift from legacy Time-of-Flight [ToF] LiDAR to FMCW for L3 autonomy is a structural inevitability. However, the temporal mismatch between Aeva's ~24-month liquidity runway and its 2028 mass-production timeline guarantees big stock dilution. More so, AEVA stock is trading at 28.64x forward EV/Sales that leaves almost no margin of safety for macroeconomic friction/automotive SOP delays. The technology is a Strong Buy, but the pre-dilution capital structure is a Sell. This backs the formation of a balanced Hold rating until capital is raised. The FMCW Architectural Shift My Aeva stock’s long-term bullish thesis is based on a long-term industry shift from legacy ToF LiDAR to FMCW silicon photonics. This shift is beyond standard automotive hardware cycles. I have multiple points to answer. Why? The first factor is the Nvidia DRIVE Hyperion Integration Multiplier, as Aeva is now the reference 4D LiDAR for the Hyperion platform. This builds a design-in-default for OEMs utilizing Nvidia’s full-stack AV processing. As Hyperion is the foundational architecture for industry giants, Aeva bypasses fragmented multi-year OEM sensor evaluations. Moreso, as Nvidia integrates Aeva’s 4D velocity data into its core simulation and validation environments, OEM software stacks become dependent (inseparably) on deterministic instant velocity measurements. This development forms a strong software lock-in for a hardware sensor. Now, the second factor is the Defense Sector Advantage. For more clarity, Aeva’s Forterra win exposes an important blind spot in legacy ToF sensors. The blind spot is that ToF lasers are highly visible to night-vision goggles [NVGs], and this renders them ...
Google is rolling out two new Gemini tools on Thursday which could attract users who are thinking about switching their preferred AI chatbot but don't want to "retrain" a new AI. Gemini's new "Import Memory" and "Import Chat History" features help users quickly copy over everything their current AI already knows about them with a couple of pre-written prompts. To use the "Import Memory" tool, user...
Google is rolling out two new Gemini tools on Thursday which could attract users who are thinking about switching their preferred AI chatbot but don't want to "retrain" a new AI. Gemini's new "Import Memory" and "Import Chat History" features help users quickly copy over everything their current AI already knows about them with a couple of pre-written prompts. To use the "Import Memory" tool, users copy and paste a suggested prompt from Gemini into their previous AI, then paste the output from the previous AI into Gemini, which should get Gemini caught up on their preferences. The "Import Chat History" feature has users request an export o … Read the full story at The Verge.
Morris Shannon, Chief Medical Officer of Erasca (NASDAQ:ERAS) , reported the exercise and immediate sale of 20,000 shares of Common Stock for a transaction value of approximately $301,000, according to a SEC Form 4 filing . Transaction value based on SEC Form 4 weighted average purchase price ($15.04); post-transaction direct holdings were zero following the transaction. * 1-year price change calc...
Morris Shannon, Chief Medical Officer of Erasca (NASDAQ:ERAS) , reported the exercise and immediate sale of 20,000 shares of Common Stock for a transaction value of approximately $301,000, according to a SEC Form 4 filing . Transaction value based on SEC Form 4 weighted average purchase price ($15.04); post-transaction direct holdings were zero following the transaction. * 1-year price change calculated using March 26, 2026 as the reference date. Continue reading