#business & policy
Every Mapletechie story tagged "business & policy" — tech news, reviews, and analysis.
- Zillow and Redfin Settlement Forces Rental Competition Back
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026The FTC’s Zillow-Redfin settlement forces Redfin back into rental advertising after regulators said a $100M deal removed a major competitor from the market.
- Alabama Is Investigating OpenAI Over the Hugging Face Hack
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026Alabama has subpoenaed OpenAI over the Hugging Face breach, turning a frontier-model containment failure into a formal consumer-protection investigation.
- Flock’s Camera Backlash Is Becoming a Bipartisan Tech Problem
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026Flock Safety’s license-plate camera backlash has become bipartisan as misuse cases and national data sharing raise questions about where public safety ends and …
- Canada’s Tariff Fight Is Coming for Electronics Next
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026New U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods took effect August 22, and Canada’s September counter-tariffs include electronics. The impact will depend heavily on product …
- OpenAI Wants California to Toughen Its AI Safety Law
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026OpenAI is asking California to strengthen SB 53 with more frontier-model monitoring and cybersecurity safeguards, reversing its earlier opposition to the law.
- AI Data Centres Are Losing the Public Before They Win the Grid
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026Texas’s sharp reversal on AI data centres shows a growing infrastructure backlash over power, water and local costs. Canada should learn from it before the same…
- China’s CXMT Lands Xiaomi LPDDR6 Deal as Memory Race Tightens
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026China’s CXMT will supply LPDDR6 memory for Xiaomi’s upcoming 18 Fold, a major design win that shows how quickly China is narrowing the advanced-memory gap.
- Judge Blocks Pentagon’s Anthropic Blacklist
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026A federal judge blocked the Pentagon’s effort to blacklist Anthropic after a dispute over Claude’s military-use limits, raising bigger questions about governmen…