Aaron Mak

New: ONCD wants answers Friday from a slew of tech and cyber companies about how to best slow the AI bugpocalypse. W/@aarontmak @delizanickel politico.com/news/2026/04/3…

The White House has delivered a list of questions to cyber/tech companies about confronting AI-powered digital attacks The deadline to respond is Friday Scoop from @aarontmak @delizanickel @johnnysaks130 politico.com/news/2026/04/3…

@martyrdison - Arson gap (committing arson vs. being boring)

gaps in relationships: - restaurant gap (going out vs. staying in) - museum gap (do you want wander vs. sprint) - travel gap (need to travel a lot vs. fine with 1-2 trips a year) - money gap (spending heavily vs. stingy) - living gap (city vs. suburb vs. middle of nowhere) - ambition gap (highly driven vs. ok with career not being focal POV) - texting gap (heavy communicator vs. sporadic) - friend gap (big social group vs. 1-2 friends max)

POLITICO first reported that OpenAI was behind the "Parents And Kids Safe AI" coalition two weeks ago.

The unsettled science driving social media addiction lawsuits politico.com/newsletters/di… @aarontmak via @politico

reading “How phone apps become tools of war” in Politico’s “Digital Future Daily” makes me feel like I’m living inside a Paul Verhoeven sci-fi horror film warning us about a dystopian dimension we should want to avoid

@davidsirota crazy stuff

DOJ Assistant AG Gail Slater’s resignation is fueling a fear — even from some of Donald Trump’s own supporters — that corporate influence is corroding the populist antitrust movement. Read the full story from me and @aarontmak: politico.com/news/2026/02/1…

Interesting thought on dynamic pricing from @owenslindsay1 in today's Politico @DigitalFuture newsletter, per @aarontmak:

As yet another week of the Grok undressing scandal unfolds, a good time to revisit my piece from Friday — why on earth are major governments not doing anything about it? transformernews.ai/p/why-hasnt-an…

@CBSNews @mcunningham36 And here’s @Politico’s @aarontmak speaking to the policy issues raised, which includes our Senior Legislative Counsel Sandi Johnson politico.pulse.ly/v5jlxb2xvi

@WillOremus MrBeast gets more clicks than dad :/

Meta isn't an illegal monopoly in social networking, a judge ruled today, because it competes with TikTok and YouTube. The ruling is interesting: Judge Boasberg basically says it doesn't matter if Meta monopolized social networking, because social networking is dead.

Happy 24th Birthday Wayback Machine! On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine. The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996. #InternetHistory

absolutely heartbreaking nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/…

This is an AI use I'd expect to see more of. Schumer tells @PunchbowlNews that "every day gets better for us" during the shutdown. Problem: It's a print quote, no "sound." Solution: Create video of Schumer saying it.

I wrote about how social platforms are handling the Charlie Kirk assassination with @dlippman

Jim Jordan invites Nigel Farage to Capitol Hill to bash tech laws ow.ly/Rz62106k2Nu

“Ofcom kept saying how they were working with different companies on compliance... But there’s so many companies that host user-generated content.” — @senatorshoshana @aarontmak @politico

@aarontmak @politico politico.com/newsletters/di… IMO Aaron has also had some of the best coverage around this and focuses on more sides of the issue