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An AI Chatbot May Be Your Next Therapist. Will It Actually Help Your Mental Health? + More
An AI Chatbot May Be Your Next Therapist. Will It Actually Help Your Mental Health?
In the past few years, 10,000 to 20,000 apps have stampeded into the mental health space, offering to “disrupt” traditional therapy. With the frenzy around AI innovations like ChatGPT, the claim that chatbots can provide mental healthcare is on the horizon.
The numbers explain why: Pandemic stresses led to millions more Americans seeking treatment. At the same time, there has long been a shortage of mental health professionals in the United States; more than half of all counties lack psychiatrists. Given the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that insurers offer parity between mental and physical health coverage, there is a gaping chasm between demand and supply.
Unfortunately, in the mental health space, evidence of effectiveness is lacking. Few of the many apps on the market have independent outcomes research showing they help; most haven’t been scrutinized at all by the FDA. Though marketed to treat conditions such as anxiety, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and depression, or to predict suicidal tendencies, many warn users (in small print) that they are “not intended to be medical, behavioral health or other healthcare service” or “not an FDA cleared product.”
There are good reasons to be cautious in the face of this marketing juggernaut.
YouTube’s Recommendations Send Violent and Graphic Gun Videos to 9-Year-Olds, Study Finds
When researchers at a nonprofit that studies social media wanted to understand the connection between YouTube videos and gun violence, they set up accounts on the platform that mimicked the behavior of typical boys living in the U.S.
They simulated two nine-year-olds who both liked video games. The accounts were identical, except that one clicked on the videos recommended by YouTube, and the other ignored the platform’s suggestions.
The account that clicked on YouTube’s suggestions was soon flooded with graphic videos about school shootings, tactical gun training videos and how-to instructions on making firearms fully automatic. One video featured an elementary school-age girl wielding a handgun; another showed a shooter using a .50 caliber gun to fire on a dummy head filled with lifelike blood and brains. Many of the videos violate YouTube’s own policies against violent or gory content.
Along with TikTok, the video-sharing platform is one of the most popular sites for children and teens. Both sites have been criticized in the past for hosting, and in some cases promoting, videos that encourage gun violence, eating disorders and self-harm. Critics of social media have also pointed to the links between social media, radicalization and real-world violence.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Raises $100 Million for Worldcoin Crypto Project, Which Uses ‘Orb’ to Scan Your Eye: Report
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly raised nearly $100 million for his next big project, a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin that will verify users’ unique identities by scanning their eyes.
After revolutionizing artificial intelligence with ChatGPT, Altman has set his sights on creating an “inclusive” global cryptocurrency that will be available to anyone who verifies their “unique personhood” with the “Orb,” an imaging device that takes a picture of an iris pattern.
The company says its crypto token will be “globally and freely distributed” to users who sign up for a wallet — a sort of universal basic income with crypto. Worldcoin hopes to incentivize people to adopt its currency by giving away free coins, which will, in turn, make the coins more valuable and useful if they become widely adopted, Worldcoin claims.
Users who submit to biometric iris scans are assigned a “World ID” that enables them to receive 25 free Worldcoin tokens at launch — provided they are located in a place where Worldcoin token is available.
Musk: There’s a Chance AI ‘Goes Wrong and Destroys Humanity’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is warning that it’s possible emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology “goes wrong and destroys humanity.”
“There’s a strong probability that it will make life much better and that we’ll have an age of abundance. And there’s some chance that it goes wrong and destroys humanity,” Musk told CNBC anchor David Faber.
“Hopefully, that chance is small, but it’s not zero. And so I think we want to take whatever actions we can think of to minimize the probability that AI goes wrong.”
Musk called the tech a “double-edged sword” and stressed it’s hard to predict what happens next with the new tools.
Excelsior Pass Costs Ballooned to $64 Million and Keep Rising
They called it the Excelsior Pass. The first-in-the-nation app would provide a “secure and streamlined” way for people to attend live events and restaurants without digging out their vaccine card. It would be built by IBM, and it would cost $2.5 million.
The state decided early on to outsource the work on the app. While that aspect of the project didn’t change, the stated cost to taxpayers definitely did, and quickly: In June 2021, the New York Times noted that the pass would actually cost $17 million; a follow-up report two months later indicated that price tag had grown to as much as $27 million.
More than two years after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s initial announcement, the payments to private companies for the app have multiplied well beyond that figure, even as the waning of the pandemic means the Excelsior Pass is rarely if ever used — and opens the related question of how many booster shots are needed to be “up to date” according to the app.
The current cost is $64 million, a previously unreported sum that includes funds paid to IBM as well as to two consultants on the project, Boston Consulting Group and Deloitte, according to records obtained by the Times Union.
The state continues to pay IBM $200,000 a month for data storage services related to the Excelsior Pass. In addition, in March the state spent $2.2 million for “application development” of the Excelsior Pass.
This Lawmaker Stands Out for His AI Expertise. Can He Help Congress?
Rep. Jay Obernolte has said it many times: The biggest risk posed by artificial intelligence is not “an army of evil robots with red laser eyes rising to take over the world.”
It’s the “less obvious” and more mundane issues such as data privacy, antitrust issues and AI’s potential to influence human behavior. All these take precedence over the hypothetical notion of AI ending humanity, the California Republican says.
Obernolte would know: He’s one of a handful of lawmakers with a computer science degree — including graduate research on AI in some of its earliest stages. With the rise of generative AI applications like ChatGPT — what some observers have dubbed a “big bang” moment — Obernolte has emerged as a leading expert in Congress on how the technology works and what lawmakers should worry about.
More broadly, he is blunt about the paucity of tech-savvy lawmakers. “We need more computer science professionals in Congress given the complexity of some of the technological issues we grapple with,” he told The Post.
Police to Use Live Facial Recognition in Cardiff During Beyoncé Concert
Police will use live facial recognition technology in Cardiff during the Beyoncé concert on Wednesday, despite concerns about racial bias and human rights.
A spokesperson for the force said the technology would be used in the city center, not at the concert itself. In the past, police use of live facial recognition (LFR) in England and Wales had been limited to special operations such as football matches or the coronation, when there was a crackdown on protesters.
Daragh Murray, a senior lecturer of law at Queen Mary University in London, said the normalization of invasive surveillance capability at events such as a concert was concerning and was taking place without any real public debate.
“I think things like live facial recognition are the first step, but I think they’re opening the doors to the use of permanent facial recognition across city-wide surveillance camera networks,” he said.
Senator Rick Scott Introducing Legislation to Require Parental Consent for Kids’ AI Use + More
Rick Scott Introducing Legislation to Require Parental Consent for Kids’ AI Use
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) introduced legislation Tuesday that will require children to get parental consent to use artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
The AI Shield for Kids (ASK) Act will prevent children from accessing AI features on social media sites without the consent of a parent or guardian.
Scott’s bill will also require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to issue rules barring social media platforms from charging a fee or mandating a paid subscription before allowing either parents or children to remove AI features from products minors use.
The proposed legislation comes as Scott and other lawmakers are scheduled to speak on the issue in a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the head of the artificial intelligence company that makes the popular ChatGPT tool, will testify before Congress at the meeting.
Campaigners Welcome Kate Winslet’s Plea About Online Safety and Children
Online safety campaigners have welcomed Kate Winslet’s call on “people in power” to criminalize harmful digital content during her Bafta acceptance speech, as the U.K. parliament debates legislation to rein in social media platforms.
The actor won the television award on Sunday for her portrayal of a mother whose teenage daughter suffers from mental health problems as a result of viewing damaging online content.
Accepting the award for best leading actress for Channel 4 drama I am Ruth, in which she acted alongside her real-life daughter, Mia Threapleton, Winslet said: “We want our children back.”
She added: “For young people who have become addicted to social media and its darker sides, this does not need to be your life. To people in power, and to people who can make change, please, criminalize harmful content.”
ChatGPT Chief Says Artificial Intelligence Should Be Regulated by a U.S. or Global Agency
The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT told Congress on Tuesday that government intervention “will be critical to mitigating the risks of increasingly powerful” AI systems.
“As this technology advances, we understand that people are anxious about how it could change the way we live. We are too,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified at a Senate hearing Tuesday.
Altman proposed the formation of a U.S. or global agency that would license the most powerful AI systems and have the authority to “take that license away and ensure compliance with safety standards.”
Pressed on his own worst fear about AI, Altman mostly avoided specifics. But he later proposed that a new regulatory agency should impose safeguards that would block AI models that could “self-replicate and self-exfiltrate into the wild” — hinting at futuristic concerns about advanced AI systems that could manipulate humans into ceding control.
Public Trusts Childhood Vaccines but Support for School Mandates Wanes
Americans are much more confident in routine childhood vaccines than COVID-19 shots, but support for vaccine requirements in schools has slipped from pre-pandemic levels, according to a new Pew Research Center study.
Why it matters: Responses from the study of more than 10,000 adults suggest that vaccine hesitancy around COVID hasn’t fueled significantly wider anti-vax sentiment. But the share who say parents should be able to decide not to vaccinate their children now stands at 28%, up 12 points from four years ago.
What they found: 88% of Americans believe the benefits of childhood vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella outweigh the risks, compared to 62% who have the same views about COVID-19 vaccines.
Concerns about potential dangers are more pronounced for mothers than fathers, with about half of the mothers with a child under age 18 rating the risk of side effects from MMR vaccines as medium or high, a full 15 percentage points higher than the share of fathers with those views.
House Unanimously Passes Bill Limiting Federal Government Access to Phone, Email Data
The U.S. House of Representatives on May 15 passed a bill that would place restrictions on the federal government’s access to personal cell phone and email data. The bill passed the lower chamber in a unanimous 412–0 vote, including 212 Republicans and 200 Democrats. The legislation was sponsored by Reps. Scott Fitzgerald (R-Wis.) and Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.).
Under current law, prosecutors can request email and cell phone records from those not suspected of any criminal behavior. Often, these requests to service providers are accompanied by Non-Disclosure Orders (NDOs).
Nadler said in a press release that “abuse of secrecy orders is not limited to Congress — schools, local governments, Fortune 500 companies and countless others have had their data swept up by investigators looking to sidestep the basic protections afforded to Americans in criminal investigations.”
“The federal government has abused its authority to access the personal data of individuals under investigation,” Fitzgerald said in a press release.
WHO Warns Against Bias, Misinformation in Using AI in Healthcare
The World Health Organization called for caution on Tuesday in using artificial intelligence for public healthcare, saying data used by AI to reach decisions could be biased or misused.
The WHO said it was enthusiastic about the potential of AI but had concerns over how it will be used to improve access to health information, as a decision-support tool and to improve diagnostic care.
The WHO said in a statement the data used to train AI may be biased and generate misleading or inaccurate information and the models can be misused to generate disinformation.
Eyes on the Poor: Cameras, Facial Recognition Watch Over Public Housing
In public housing facilities across America, local officials are installing a new generation of powerful and pervasive surveillance systems, imposing an outsize level of scrutiny on some of the nation’s poorest citizens.
Housing agencies have been purchasing the tools — some equipped with facial recognition and other artificial intelligence capabilities — with no guidance or limits on their use, though the risks are poorly understood and little evidence exists that they make communities safer.
As cameras have gotten smarter, their use in public housing is becoming a flashpoint in the national debate over facial recognition. States including Alabama, Colorado and Virginia have passed laws limiting the use of facial recognition by law enforcement, recognizing that these tools have been shown to produce false matches — particularly when scanning women and people of color.
Israel Repeals Quarantine Mandate for Those Sick With COVID
Israel’s Health Ministry will not extend its mandatory quarantine policy for those sick with the coronavirus starting Tuesday, removing all remaining restrictions issued at the start of the pandemic.
The ministry’s announcement follows the World Health Organization’s (WHO) decision last week to repeal the global state of emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the WHO’s announcement, although this decision is indicative of the progress the world has made on this issue, “the coronavirus is here to stay,” and will continue to be considered a pandemic similar to AIDS.
TSA Testing Facial Recognition Technology at 16 Airports Across U.S. to Enhance Airport Security, Travel + More
TSA Testing Facial Recognition Technology at 16 Airports Across U.S. to Enhance Airport Security, Travel
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is testing the use of facial recognition technology at select airports across the country to enhance security and speed up procedures.
The pilot program is currently in place at some TSA checkpoints at 16 airports in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Jose, and Gulfport-Biloxi and Jackson in Mississippi.
TSA says the pilot program is voluntary and accurate, but critics have raised concerns about questions of bias in facial recognition technology and possible repercussions for passengers who want to opt-out.
In a February letter to TSA, five senators — four Democrats and an Independent who is part of the Democratic caucus — demanded the agency stop the program, saying, “Increasing biometric surveillance of Americans by the government represents a risk to civil liberties and privacy rights.”
Online Age Verification Is Coming, and Privacy Is on the Chopping Block
A spate of child safety rules might make going online in a few years very different, and not just for kids. In 2022 and 2023, numerous states and countries are exploring age verification requirements for the Internet, either as an implicit demand or a formal rule. The laws are positioned as a way to protect children on a dangerous internet. But the price of that protection might be high: nothing less than the privacy of, well, everyone.
Government agencies, private companies, and academic researchers have spent years seeking a way to solve the thorny question of how to check internet users’ ages without the risk of revealing intimate information about their online lives. But after all that time, privacy and civil liberties advocates still aren’t convinced the government is ready for the challenge.
In the U.S. and abroad, lawmakers want to limit children’s access to two things: social networks and porn sites. Louisiana, Arkansas, and Utah have all passed laws that set rules for underage users on social media. Meanwhile, multiple U.S. federal bills are on the table, and so are laws in other countries, like the U.K.’s Online Safety Bill. Some of these laws demand specific features from age verification tools. Others simply punish sites for letting anyone underage use them — a more subtle request for verification.
More experimentally, there are solutions that estimate a user’s age without an ID. One potential option, which is already used by Facebook and Instagram, would use a camera and facial recognition to guess whether you’re 18. Another, which is highlighted as a potential age verification solution by France’s National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL), would “guess” your age based on your online activity.
‘Biden Bucks Stop Here’: DeSantis Touts Florida’s Digital Currency Ban, Warns of ‘Cashless Society’
The team for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday released a new video first obtained by FOX Business that follows the governor signing legislation to ban the use of a central bank digital currency, or CBDC, in the Sunshine State.
One day before the video’s release, DeSantis signed legislation prohibiting a federally adopted CBDC as money within Florida’s Uniform Commercial Code. The new law also implements protections against a central global currency by prohibiting any CBDC by a foreign reserve or sanctioned central bank and calls on other states to join in passing similar legislation.
The Federal Reserve defines CBDC as “a digital form of central bank money widely available to the general public,” meaning the central bank — the Federal Reserve in the case of the U.S. — would be liable for the money rather than a commercial bank.
Proponents argue a CBDC would offer greater convenience and efficiency while ensuring safety and liquidity. According to DeSantis and other critics, however, such a monetary system would give the federal government unprecedented power over consumers and businesses.
Ex-ByteDance Exec Claims CCP ‘Maintained’ Access to U.S. Data
The Chinese Communist Party “maintained supreme access” to data belonging to TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, including data stored in the U.S., a former top executive claimed in a lawsuit Friday. Why it matters: The allegations come as federal officials weigh the fate of the social media giant in the U.S. amid growing concerns over national security and data privacy.
Driving the news: In a wrongful dismissal suit filed in San Francisco Superior Court, Yintao Yu said ByteDance “has served as a useful propaganda tool for the Chinese Communist Party.”
Yu, whose claim says he served as head of engineering for ByteDance’s U.S. offices from August 2017 to November 2018, alleged that inside the Beijing-based company, the CCP “had a special office or unit, which was sometimes referred to as the ‘Committee’.”
The “Committee” didn’t work for ByteDance but “played a significant role,” in part by “gui[ding] how the company advanced core Communist values,” the lawsuit claims. The CCP could also access U.S. user data via a “backdoor channel in the code,” the suit states.
Instagram and Facebook Are Using Fears of a TikTok Ban to Poach Influencers
Meta and other social media firms chasing TikTok’s short-form video success are fanning the flames of ban rhetoric while simultaneously vying to boost the attractiveness of their own TikTok clones with new monetization features. The goal? Steal away as many fearful TikTokers as possible.
Brewing fears of an impending TikTok ban could send some creators packing their digital bags and heading back to Instagram and Facebook, whether they like it or not. Digital marketing experts and content creators speaking with Gizmodo said a scenario where TikTok is made inaccessible in the U.S. would result in diminished competition in the social media landscape broadly and a far less favorable environment for creators.
It could also be a godsend for Meta and other companies racing to keep pace with TikTok’s meteoric ascent. Whether or not a national ban ever actually materializes is almost irrelevant; the fear is enough for their recruitment drive.
The U.K.’s Secretive Web Surveillance Program Is Ramping Up
The U.K. government is quietly expanding and developing a controversial surveillance technology that could be capable of logging and storing the web histories of millions of people.
Official reports and spending documents show that in the past year, U.K. police have deemed the testing of a system that can collect people’s “internet connection records” a success, and have started work to potentially introduce the system nationally. If implemented, it could hand law enforcement a powerful surveillance tool.
Critics say the system is highly intrusive, and that officials have a history of not properly protecting people’s data. Much of the technology and its operation is shrouded in secrecy, with bodies refusing to answer questions about the systems.
Surveillance Contractor Monitored Vaccine Skeptics, Report Says
Flashpoint, a surveillance contractor for the FBI, infiltrated chatrooms of airline industry groups that opposed vaccine mandates, according to a report by investigative journalist Lee Fang.
In the past, Flashpoint infiltrated Islamic terror groups. But it has since focused on vaccine skeptic groups and other domestic political groups.
Fang analyzed a webinar presentation by Flashpoint to clients that was held last year. In the presentation, Flashpoint analyst Vlad Cuiujuclu showed the company’s methods of identifying and infiltrating Telegram chat groups.
Describing the presentation, Fang wrote: “‘In this case, we’re searching for a closed channel of U.S. Freedom Flyers,’ said Cuiujuclu. ‘It’s basically a group that opposed vaccination and masks.’
Fired Teachers Who Refused COVID Vaccine to Get Full Reinstatement and Back Pay
Three Rhode Island teachers who were fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine have been offered their jobs back with full back pay after reaching a settlement with the school district.
Teachers Stephanie Hines, Brittany DiOrio, and Kerri Thurber were terminated from their positions in Barrington Public Schools after they had requested a religious exemption after the school-mandated employees get the vaccine.
Last week, their attorney, Greg Piccirilli, and the school district said they had reached a settlement, allowing the teachers to return to their jobs. They are also each entitled to $33,333 in damages along with their back pay. DiOrio will get $150,000, Thurber will get $128,000, and Hines will receive $65,000 under the agreement.
Meanwhile, Barrington Public Schools told the Providence Journal that it reached the settlement because the litigation would likely put a drag on the school’s resources and funding. It attempted to distance itself from its own vaccine mandate by claiming that it was dealing with the spread of COVID-19, although there is a growing body of evidence that shows the vaccines do not prevent the spread of the virus.
Nurse Fired for Refusing COVID Vaccine Reflects as National Emergency Ends: ‘It’s Frustrating to Look Back’
A New York nurse who lost her job, because she refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine due to medical circumstances, says it is “frustrating” looking back at her firing as the Biden administration marks an end to the health emergency.
Jenna Viani-Pascale says she decided to forgo the coronavirus vaccine because she suffered a stroke at 36 years old. She was dismissed from her job after she was unable to get a medical exemption for her condition or take her case to court as lawyers were hesitant to take a stand. Now as President Biden signed a bill Monday to end the national emergency response to COVID-19, the nurse is re-living her ordeal.
Viani-Pascale expressed frustration that medical professionals were not given an opportunity to make their own decision about taking the vaccine.
“I haven’t heard from my old job,” she said. “I haven’t been offered a position back. They’re still requiring it at the hospitals in New York. So, it’s just a very frustrating thing for somebody who really loved her job.”
Musk Draws Backlash for Picking World Economic Forum Leader, Supporter of ‘Content Moderation’ to Run Twitter + More
Musk Draws Backlash for Picking World Economic Forum Leader, Supporter of ‘Content Moderation’ to Run Twitter
Elon Musk selected advertising executive Linda Yaccarino to replace him as chief executive officer of Twitter, drawing concern as users on the platform notice her connections to the World Economic Forum (WEF) and her endorsements of content moderation.
Twitter users started to uncover the connections that Yaccarino holds to entities such as the WEF, for which she chairs the Taskforce on Future of Work and sits on the Media, Entertainment and Culture Industry Governors Steering Committee.
The WEF is a leading proponent of stakeholder capitalism, an approach to investing that encourages executives to consider the needs of employees, communities and other parties in addition to shareholders, and the use of corporate power to advance political agendas.
Musk himself criticized the WEF earlier this year for “trying to be the boss” of the entire planet as business leaders and government officials gathered at the organization’s annual summit in Switzerland.
Yaccarino also served as board chair for the Ad Council, an entity which creates public service announcements for nonprofits and governments. She partnered with the Biden administration to launch a campaign featuring Pope Francis in order to promote COVID-19 vaccines.
IN-DEPTH: Is Your Money Spying on You?
Slowly but steadily, our money is taking on a new role; in addition to its traditional function as a medium of exchange and store of value, money is increasingly becoming a means of surveillance and control.
Financial privacy has become one of the biggest casualties in the world’s relentless march to a digital payments system.
Not only do corporations like your bank, credit card issuer, PayPal and Amazon know your buying habits intimately, this data is routinely passed on to government to be mined in a warrantless search for criminal activity.
Behind this phenomenon is what some call the “war on cash,” with the goal of a cashless society. This transition includes partnerships of banking and tech companies, and the rise of the “fintech” industry.
Google’s New AI Plan to Demolish Journalism Industry
Remember back in 2018, when Google removed “don’t be evil” from its code of conduct?
It’s been living up to that removal lately. At its annual I/O in San Francisco this week, the search giant finally lifted the lid on its vision for AI-integrated search — and that vision, apparently, involves cutting digital publishers off at the knees.
At first glance, the change might seem relatively benign. Often, all folks surfing the web want is a quick-hit summary or snippet of something anyway.
But it’s not unfair to say that Google, which in April, according to data from SimilarWeb, hosted roughly 91% of all search traffic, is somewhat synonymous with, well, the internet. And the internet isn’t just some ethereal, predetermined thing, as natural water or air. The internet is a marketplace, and Google is its kingmaker.
As such, the demo raises an extremely important question for the future of the already-ravaged journalism industry: if Google’s AI is going to mulch up original work and provide a distilled version of it to users at scale, without ever connecting them to the original work, how will publishers continue to monetize their work?
As COVID Emergency Ends, Surveillance Shifts to the Sewers
As the COVID-19 public health emergency expires in the U.S., the coronavirus will not disappear. But many of the data streams that have helped Americans monitor the virus will go dark.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will stop tabulating community levels of COVID-19 and will no longer require certain case information from hospitals or testing data from laboratories.
And as free testing is curtailed, official case counts, which became less reliable as Americans shifted to at-home testing, may drift even further from reality.
But experts who want to keep tabs on the virus will still have one valuable option: sewage.
People who are infected with the coronavirus shed the pathogen in their stool, whether or not they take a COVID-19 test or seek medical care, enabling officials to track levels of the virus in communities over time and to watch for the emergence of new variants.
Lawmakers ‘Cowered’ to Take on Tech Giants Again, Senator Says
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) spoke candidly on Thursday about the impact of failed efforts to pass major antitrust legislation last Congress. The defeat is hurting lawmakers’ attempts to rein in the tech giants, he argued, because some of his colleagues “cowered” in the face of industry “intimidation.”
A massive industry-led lobbying campaign to tank those proposals is still giving lawmakers the jitters, he said during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting.
Grassley’s blunt remarks illustrate fallout from lawmakers’ antitrust defeat and how it may shape efforts to regulate the tech sector moving ahead, beyond concerns about competition.