Reputation Nation hosts Anne Marie Malecha and Stacy Bratcher examine how AI is reshaping crisis, regulatory, and reputation landscapes, spotlighting Penske Media’s antitrust lawsuit alleging Google’s AI Overviews siphon traffic from outlets like Rolling Stone and threaten digital media economics. They break down a federal ruling that lets Particle Health’s antitrust claims proceed against Epic Systems, a pivotal test of alleged EMR market power and data-access gatekeeping with industry-wide implications for health data competition. The episode also unpacks Shein’s AI-generated model controversy as a cautionary tale on vendor oversight and human-in-the-loop approvals, then turns to the Workday hiring-bias case, where a rare collective action highlights algorithmic discrimination risks for employers at massive scale. Actionable takeaways: pressure-test AI vendor practices, add human review to AI workflows, and prepare legal-comms strategies now for antitrust and bias scrutiny in the AI gold rush era.

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