August 16, 2026

The lawsuits that could give AI its Big Tobacco moment are already here

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In the 1990s, almost every US state sued the tobacco industry. The resulting settlements cost hundreds of billions of dollars and transformed how cigarettes were marketed, sold, and regulated. Senator Ed Markey said in March that Big Tech’s Big Tobac...