Artificial Power: 2025 Landscape Report
Jun 3, 2025
Our latest annual report maps the current state of play with the AI market, interrogates the industry’s key sources of power, and provides an actionable strategy to reclaim public agency over the future of AI.
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See AllSenators Came to Their Senses on AI Regulation Ban
“If there’s one lesson from the last decade of social media,” Kak added, “it’s that it’s difficult, maybe even impossible, to catch up with this tech sector once business models and practices have already been entrenched.”
Jul 1, 2025
‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ could block AI regulations for 10 years, leaving its harms unchecked
“I can imagine that for lawmakers, Republican or Democrat, whose districts rely on BEAD funding for broadband access to their rural communities, it’s really a strange bargain,” Kak said.
Jun 17, 2025
The Storm Clouds Looming Past the State Moratorium: Weak Regulation is as Bad as None
We must remain vigilant against a scenario that’s as harmful as no regulation itself: weak regulation that serves to legitimize the AI industry’s behavior and continue business as usual. A federal law that imposes baseline transparency disclosures and then restricts states’ ability to impose additional—or stricter—requirements could place us on a dangerous trajectory of inaction.
Jun 11, 2025
Big AI isn’t just lobbying Washington—it’s joining it
On Tuesday, the AI Now Institute, a research and advocacy nonprofit that studies the social implications of AI, released a report that accused AI companies of “pushing out shiny objects to detract from the business reality while they desperately try to derisk their portfolios through government subsidies and steady public-sector (often carceral or military) contracts.” The organization says the public needs “to reckon with the ways in which today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us.”
Jun 6, 2025
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