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SCOOP: The FTC is preparing a lawsuit against a major AI lab over training data, according to three people familiar with the matter. Filing could come as soon as next week.

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The tech industry has quietly built a $4 billion market for AI-generated stock photography, and nobody has asked the models where their training data came from.

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OPINION: The four-day workweek isn't a productivity experiment anymore. It's a labor negotiation dressed up as one. Read it here.

on the age-verification block: what this means practically, and what happens next, from our tech policy desk. 4 min read.

The number of "open weights" AI models with commercial-use restrictions has doubled every 6 months for the past year. Our chart of the day tells the whole story.

The EV memo above matches what our sources have been describing for weeks. Our full breakdown is a lot less dramatic than the leak. Explainer at theledger.press.

OPINION: The best regulation is often the one that is threatened but never passed. This week's example is a case study.

The unemployment rate ticked down 0.1% last month. Beneath the headline: three sectors are quietly hemorrhaging jobs, and none of them are the ones you're reading about.