Jason Lomberg

ÂCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing a new tax to allegedly close a loophole on physical vs digital software sales – as things stand, cloud-based software and software as a service (SaaS) applications are untaxed. “I’m at Best Buy often, and I... See more

California has closed a legal loophole by holding autonomous vehicles – or more specifically, their manufacturers – responsible for moving violations. As-is, autonomous vehicle liability is anything but certain. Because many of the semi-autonomous or “dri... See more

A new report suggests that a significant portion of web traffic is courtesy of AI, and in the future, a majority of online activity could be artificial in nature. But this only hints at the larger (and potentially catastrophic) problem – using AI to scrap... See more

At a time when AI data centers are expanding astronomically to provide the otherworldly computing power needed to train AI models, you might be wondering about the psychological effect of exposing ourselves to an artificial entity that’s exponentially sma... See more

Welcome to the May issue! April’s issue dealt with the immediate aftermath of APEC, and this month I’d like to get into some specifics. Amongst a plethora of new developments, two specific themes stood out – the decline of EVs and the ascension of artific... See more