The Latest Breaking News from Lina Khan

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Google’s Sundar Pichai are now begging governments to regulate the A.I. forces they’ve unleashed

A.I. is “too important not to regulate well,” Pichai wrote, while Altman suggested that a body like the IAEA would soon be needed to oversee A.I.

Fortune · May 23, 2023

Microsoft, Activision and the battle with competition tsars

In a “striking show of leniency by a notoriously tough regulator”, the European Commission has approved Microsoft’s $69bn megadeal with games-maker Activision Blizzard, said DealBook in The New York Times – just weeks after the UK’s competition regulator threw it out. 

The Week · May 19, 2023

Carl Icahn’s activist play plays into the hands of Lina Khan and EU regulators

Every company with acquisition plans in the U.S. and Europe should be concerned about the FTC partnering with EU regulators to sink the Illumina-Grail deal.

Fortune · May 19, 2023

Don't Give the Federal Trade Commission a Big Budget Just To Punish Big Firms

FTC Chair Lina Khan has an agenda that's against big companies, not for consumer well-being.

Reason · Apr 7, 2023

Feds Want to Penalize Overly Complicated Subscription Cancellations at $50,000 a Pop

A government big enough to "solve" your minor irritants will do plenty of other stuff you don't like.

Reason · Mar 31, 2023

Canceling Netflix and other subscriptions could get a lot easier — thanks to new FTC proposal

A new FTC proposal is aiming to make canceling a subscription as straightforward as signing up — this could impact everything from Netflix to Planet Fitness.

Tom’s Guide · Mar 24, 2023

FTC introduces proposal to make US subscriptions easier to cancel

Regulators plan to put an end to businesses ‘tricking’ customers into paying for services they no longer want

The Guardian - US · Mar 23, 2023

Still trying to quit that gym membership? The FTC is proposing a rule that could help

The Federal Trade Commission gets thousands of complaints a year from customers trapped in memberships they don't want. Its "Click to Cancel" proposal aims to change that, Chair Lina Khan tells NPR.

WEKU · Mar 23, 2023

FTC Investigating, but Not Thwarting, Amazon Acquisition of One Medical

Since the Federal Trade Commission didn't sue in time, the deal went through. But will FTC Chair Lina Khan keep trying to attack Amazon for its bigness?

Reason · Feb 23, 2023

FTC Commissioner Resigns To Protest Agency's 'Disregard for the Rule of Law'

Chair Lina Khan has flouted the rule of law and due process, Commissioner Christine Wilson wrote.

Reason · Feb 16, 2023