📰 Regulation

Semafor

Experts warn the midterms could interrupt the momentum for AI regulation in Congress.

Regulation · AI

The Hill

The Senate advanced the Protect College Sports Act 74-24, shielding the NCAA from antitrust suits and capping revenue sharing and agent fees.

College sport · Regulation · Antitrust

The Washington Post

The Court blocked Trump's rules limiting who can vote by mail, saying the administration was unlikely to succeed on the merits.

Regulation · Elections

Vox

Vox reports the three-sentence order stops Trump's new mail-voting rules from applying to the 2026 midterms or, probably, any election.

Regulation · Elections

Front Office Sports

The WNBA players' union called it deeply disappointing that the NBA left the group off a joint letter to state betting regulators.

Women's sport · Regulation · Labour

The Washington Post

Further reading from the day's section on The Midterm Machinery: Ballots, Courts and Candidates.

Regulation · Elections

Digiday

Further reading from the day's section on media, the Fox-Roku review and FAST TV's data problem.

Regulation

Semafor

Former UK adviser Ben Judah reads London's assertiveness over Israel's West Bank settlements as a post-American turn.

Regulation

The Washington Post

The UK, France and Canada announced trade sanctions on Israel's West Bank settlements, and the White House threatened countermeasures against the UK.

Regulation

Business Insider

Zuckerberg told Trump in a previously unreported call that a national AI regulator is a flawed idea, as the industry seeks federal preemption of state AI laws.

Regulation · AI

The Washington Post

The administration asked the Supreme Court to pause the block on its mail-voting restrictions, but two swing states are already sending ballots.

Regulation · Elections

The Washington Post

The Supreme Court majority found the preservationists lack standing, and construction on the White House ballroom never stopped.

Regulation

Business Insider

Zuckerberg told Trump privately that a national AI regulator is a flawed idea.

Regulation · AI

The Washington Post

DOJ filed in support of OpenAI in the New York Times lawsuit.

Regulation · AI

Front Office Sports

A Louisiana judge granted an injunction letting players who took NFL preseason snaps return to LSU.

Regulation

Front Office Sports

New Jersey petitioned the Supreme Court to decide whether prediction-market sports contracts are financial products or gambling.

Sports betting · Regulation

Vox

Vox's Caitlin Dewey compares timelines: two years for HealthCare.gov, nine months for a direct-file pilot, eleven weeks for the USPS ballot system.

Regulation · Elections

Digiday

The FTC and 22 state AGs sued Amazon over allegedly overcharging search advertisers for seven-plus years.

Advertising · Regulation

Front Office Sports

Clemson's Tristan Smith won a fifth-year eligibility injunction with $600K of NIL on the line, one of hundreds of similar suits.

College sport · Regulation

The Stadium Business

The $325M Franklin Park stadium project cleared its lawsuit and still slipped a year on construction.

Stadium financing · Regulation

Front Office Sports

Kalshi became the US Open's exclusive prediction-market partner three days after an appeals court ruled Nevada can enforce its gaming laws against it.

Regulation

The Athletic

NFL MVP, Hall of Famer, Minnesota Supreme Court justice and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.

Regulation

Business Insider

PR pros on Meta's strategy after its $18B teen-safety settlement.

Regulation

The Washington Post

Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1B to 47 states plus about $1B to Texas, and to cap teens at two hours a day across Facebook and Instagram by default.

Regulation

The Washington Post

The Post's read: Trump has lost the mail-voting fight on the law but won it on the atmosphere, sowing confusion as ballots go out.

Regulation · Elections

Variety

Further reading from the day's section on culture, cars and the day's lightning round.

Regulation

Puck

The Roberto Clemente license-plate case raised $15 million, none of it for the family, and is now before the Supreme Court.

College sport · Regulation

Vox

Ian Millhiser on why the East Wing case reaches far past the East Wing.

Regulation

The Washington Post

Further reading from the day's section on election monitors, voter-roll lawsuits and the midterm machinery.

Regulation

Semafor

Dario Amodei conceded AI firms haven't yet delivered on their big promises, and endorsed a FINRA-style central regulator.

Regulation · AI

The Washington Post

Further reading from the day's section on Washington, the midterm map and the fiscal cliff.

Regulation

The Washington Post

A Wyoming woman alleges in a federal lawsuit that her stepfather used Grok to turn a childhood photo into thousands of child sexual abuse images.

Regulation

The Washington Post

Further reading from the day's section on data centers, power and the metro economy.

Regulation

Semafor

Eli Lilly filed six lawsuits against sellers of illicit retatrutide, its unapproved obesity drug.

Public health · Regulation

Semafor

Congressional progressives are building an AI privacy and surveillance package designed to recruit civil libertarians on the right.

Surveillance · Regulation · AI

Puck

David Ellison intends to move Paramount Skydance out of California if Rob Bonta does not settle the WBD antitrust suit by October 1.

Regulation · Antitrust

Puck

Bill Cohan reports a March trial date for the WarnerMount antitrust suit, close to the June 2027 date when WBD's board can walk.

Regulation · Antitrust

The Washington Post

U.S. District Judge John McConnell ruled against the Trump administration, faced a wave of intimidation, and went on the record about it.

Regulation

Puck

Warner is suing Amazon for poaching an HBO Max marketing executive mid-contract, a talent war conducted in court.

Regulation

Puck

Eriq Gardner assesses the billion-dollar bet behind Paramount angling for a trial rather than a settlement.

Regulation · M&A

Puck

Further reading from the day's section on LeBron James's move to Philadelphia and the week in sports.

Regulation

Status

Paramount agreed to postpone closing its $111B Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, sidestepping a preliminary-injunction fight with twelve state AGs.

Regulation · M&A

Puck

Eriq Gardner broke down California AG Rob Bonta's suit to block the Paramount and Warner Bros. merger, potentially bound for the Supreme Court.

Regulation · M&A