This is the story of my family, and of my Mom -- who we lost to cancer when I was 13 years old. Her courage and resilience inspires me to be brave, and to fight for Florida families. Her story hasn't ended, but it’s up to us to write the next chapter. We start in November. #HD47

A man masturbated during a flight while staring at the 25 year old sitting next to him. He should have been removed from the seat and arrested at the gate. This was sexual assault. Shame on the airline for putting the responsibility to report it on a traumatized young woman.

He got the phone call

I’ve never backed down from a fight. Not against powerful corporations. Not against corruption. And definitely not against politicians using public office to serve themselves. As your next Florida Attorney General, I’ll fight for you by taking on corruption and dirty politicians, holding powerful corporations accountable, and bringing down the costs hurting our families.

Wonder why someone would do that 🤔

You know it’s election season when opportunist politicians like Salazar shift with the political winds. This person praised Alligator Alcatraz, called for a review of birthright citizenship, and has voted to give ICE billions of dollars. She’s no friend of immigrants.

NEW: DeSantis' office paid nearly $200K in tax dollars to lawyers for a former aide who testified before the Hope Florida grand jury — a witness jurors found "not credible." One billed $875/hr. A 1994 AG opinion says the state can't pay lawyers for state employees. floridatrident.org/hope-flor…

Sending so much love to Amy and the Farrington Family. Such a good man.

New from me: Customs & Border Patrol detained and interrogated me at Miami International Airport. Then they scrutinized my reading list. miaminewtimes.com/opinion/op…

"....After my release, I learned that State Representative Anna Eskamani called to check on my well-being; she was hung up on four times, and CBP also refused to tell her why I was detained..."

Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point @FTC emphasized repeatedly during my tenure. 1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity. 2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same. As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed." 3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre…). Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead. 4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my @FTC tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible. this.weekinsecurity.com/doze… ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre… 5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.

I’m one of at least 28 former Washington Post journalists who have joined the @washingtonsun, which launched this morning. Paul Kane, Jeff Stein, Tom Sietsema and many other names will be familiar to Post readers —and we’ve got the Capital Weather Gang. Join us! washingtonsun.com/perspectiv…

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

I was just detained for almost two hours at Miami International Airport coming back from an overseas trip. I was interrogated, asked about my work, political activities, books and literature I had, and my phone was seized.

The American President just signed an Executive Order enabling ranchers to shoot and poison the very last wolves in America. Wolves in America number around 0.5% of their original population, and they are of course vital to the health of landscapes.

My latest segment on the Hope Florida scandal as the fallout persists piped.video/O6A5QS7teyc?is=Q_-i…

This is a deeply corrupt system, where the Trump admin is trying to trick immigrants into missing court hearings by rapidly rescheduling the time and location of hearings and not sending out notices in time. They want people to miss court. That’s the clear goal.

I’m asking the Florida Athletic Commission to revoke Duel Arena’s license, the promoter who signed a contract with the Kia Center for the August 29th MMA performance.

Orlando state attorney @MoniqueHWorrell tells @CBSMiami she is beginning her own review - including possibly a new grand jury - into Hope Florida. And she claims @GovRonDeSantis + @JamesUthmeierFL may be plotting to remove her because of it. More Sunday on Facing South Florida