John A. Jenkins

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Hype and Hope: Brain-chip Progress Evokes Investigations, Controversy

FOIAengine: Neuralink’s High Profile Makes It a Target It was a Musk Moment unlike any other:  Two weeks ago, the first human participant in Neuralink’s brain-implant trials took the stage...

WanaLawsuit? WanaBana. 

FOIAengine Spotlights a Non-Profit Newsroom and Another Problem for the FDA The Food and Drug Administration was already under fire from Congress and others after hundreds of toddlers in 44...

For Elon Musk, a Trail of Legal Challenges

FOIAengine Previews an April Fool’s Day Courtroom Grudge Match This week’s story is about two litigation magnets.  One is a household name whose lawsuit against OpenAI dominated the news a...

A Raft of Document Requests from the FTC and...

FOIAengine:  Who’s Asking What, and Why?  Days after the Federal Trade Commission launched an investigation of the five biggest players in artificial intelligence, Lina Khan was on a charm offensive...

“The Assassin” Strikes Again

FOIAengine:  Short Seller Fahmi Quadir Goes for Another Kill To keep a nickname like “the Assassin,” the killer better not miss. By the time short seller Fahmi Quadir was scheduled to...

Busting Trusts, Breaking with Tradition

Requests in FOIAengine Show Groups Watching the FTC When the Federal Trade Commission joined the Justice Department last month in announcing new merger guidelines, two years in the making, the...