Report from The Verge In Brief – US District Court Judge Amit Mehta has summarily denied Apple’s emergency request to stay his recent decision rejecting their effort to halt the Google Search monopoly trial and join the litigation directly to protect their interests,...
Ending De Minimis for China Paused While US Works on Compliance Plan
Report from the Washington Post In Brief – The Trump Administration has amended its executive order that imposed new tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico, and ended the “de minimis” exemption for packages from those countries, by delaying the de minimis change until...
Microsoft Continues Trying to Settle EU Antitrust Concerns with Teams
Report from Reuters In Brief – Microsoft has reportedly offered to widen the price differential between its Office 365 product sold with its chat and video app Teams and its version of the software sold without the Teams as part of its ongoing negotiation to avoid an...
Paris Prosecutors are Investigating X for Politically Biased Algorithms
Report from CNBC In Brief – The Paris prosecutor’s office is investigating social media platform X for using allegedly biased algorithms. The probe by the public prosecutor follows a complaint filed by a lawmaker in Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble pour la République...
Antitrust Activists Push Back on UK Naming Amazon Exec to Head CMA
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – A coalition of voices in the vanguard of antitrust activism against Big Tech have signed an open letter expressing concern with the UK Government’s recent decision to appoint a former Amazon executive as chair of the Competition and...
Macron Uses Paris AI Summit to Call for EU AI Regulatory Pullback
Report from Reuters In Brief – French President Emmanuel Macron’s address to a global AI Summit in Paris called for Europe to recalibrate AI regulation to support innovation and made the case that France, with its AI talent and nuclear-powered electricity generating...
European Commission Adds to their DSA Investigation of Shein
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – The European Commission has formally requested a wide range of information from fast-growing Chinese ecommerce platform Shein as part of its investigation of the business under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The law was enacted in...
Judge Rejects Fair Use Defense of an AI Company (not Generative AI)
Report from TechSpot In Brief – Federal Judge Stephanos Bibas has delivered a significant ruling in a copyright case pitting Thomson Reuters against the now-defunct legal services startup Ross Intelligence that claimed to have developed an AI-enabled legal service....
Meta Further Opening FB Marketplace to Resolve EU Antitrust Complaint
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – Meta has announced a further opening of its Facebook Marketplace to classified competitors, allowing classified ad firms in Europe to place their listings on Marketplace through the Facebook Marketplace Partner Program. The cost for...
The GDPR One Stop Shop Mechanism Suffers Big EU Court Setback
Report from Irish Legal News In Brief – The EU’s General Court has sided with the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), made up of the EU’s national data protection authorities and the European Data Protection Supervisor, ruling that the collective can overrule a...
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UK Antitrust Authority Investigating Microsoft Business Software Dominance
Report from Reuters In Brief – The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the country’s antitrust regulator, has announced that it will investigate Microsoft's dominance in business software using its powers to oversee big tech. The CMA is opening a "strategic...
AI Hallucination Stories Grab Bag
Context - Within weeks of Chat-GPT’s public release, the fact that chatbots make plausible and realistic sounding stuff up emerged. The AI scientists knew about the phenomenon, which they called “hallucinations”. It appears to be baked into the technology. LLMs don’t...
Texas Supreme Court Facing Online Legal Jurisdiction Question in Yelp Case
Report from MediaPost In Brief – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), with a long track record of aggressive legal action against big online companies, is urging the Texas Supreme Court to reject Yelp’s attempt to block a lawsuit he filed in 2023 alleging that...
Meta Challenges UK Online Safety Act Fees and Fines Regime
Report from The Guardian In Brief – Meta is challenging the methodology Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, uses to determine the regulatory fee and fines structure under the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA). The fees that Ofcom charges regulated firms to fund the...
New York AG Opposes Surveillance Pricing and Electronic Shelf Labels
Report from WRVO In Brief – New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is calling for state legislation to ban the use of personal data to influence prices, as well as a measure to prohibit grocery stores and pharmacies in the state from adopting digital shelf price...
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