Report from Reuters In Brief – The Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that online commerce platform Shopify, based in Canada, could face a class action lawsuit in California for allegedly violating state privacy laws. An en banc panel overturned an earlier...
X Loses Challenge to NY Law for Disclosure of Content Moderation Practices
Report from Reuters In Brief – US District Judge John Cronan in Manhattan has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X’s that sought to invalidate a 2024 New York law requiring large social media companies to disclose how they monitor hate speech, extremism,...
Trump’s Former AI Czar Says Top AI Companies Can and Should Slow Down
Report from TheNextWeb In Brief – White House technology advisor David Sacks told Anthropic and OpenAI in a post on X to go ahead and pace the frontier of AI development but to stop seeking an antitrust waiver or an approval regime, arguing that product liability and...
EU Court Confirms a Key DMA Core Platform Services Rule
Report from Euractiv In Brief – The EU’s General Court has backed the European Commission’s determination that Microsoft’s Edge browser is not a regulated core platform service under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The Commission concluded that despite Edge technically...
Trump Department of Justice Argues That AI Training is Copyright Fair Use
Report from MediaPost In Brief – The US Department of Justice has filed a brief in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against OpenAI arguing that training AI models on copyrighted works is generally transformative and fair use under US copyright law because...
California Legislature Sends AI and Social Media Bills to Governor
Report from NBC News In Brief – California’s Democratic-controlled Legislature passed more than two dozen measures in the final days of its session to restrict various uses of AI and limit how social media products can be used by minors. Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has...
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