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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently issued an interpretive rule confirming that buy now, pay later (BNPL) lenders meet enough criteria to be considered credit card lenders under the Truth in Lending Act. The announcement comes more than two years since the…
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Sam Altman was on stage at Dreamforce 2023 when he was asked to name his favorite movie about artificial intelligence. It was a deceptively good question. As the cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, Altman was uniquely well-positioned to dictate the path that AI would take in the future, so…
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The owners of the popular Chinese-owned short video platform TikTok recently filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government to block a new law that would ban the app unless its parent company sells it to an American company before January 2025. The law in question landed on President Joe…
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The Biden Administration recently announced that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will move to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The move comes just one and a half years after President Biden initially announced that he was urging the…
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The U.S. Transportation Department recently announced the finalization of two new rules that should make air travel slightly more pleasant ... or at least less aggressively unpleasant than it is today. The new rules are the latest in the Biden Administration’s work to lower consumer…
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You aren’t supposed to discriminate against people on the basis of race, age, gender, or sexual orientation. You really aren’t supposed to do it when you’re evaluating job candidates. There are a bunch of laws on the books that codify just how big a no-no that is, but that…