The Ban on State AI Laws is Dead, Canada Bows to Trump and Big Tech, and the AI Backlash Grows

This week on System Crash: Canada drops its digital services tax under pressure from Trump, the 10-year ban on state-level AI regulation is dead, and the backlash to generative AI just keeps growing. Plus, Peter Thiel and his buddies are starting a new bank named after something else from Middle Earth, Microsoft is cutting thousands of jobs, and people are using chatbots to text their friends. Subscribe to Paris’s newsletter Disconnect. Subscribe to Brian’s newsletter Blood in the Machine. Support the show