Report from Politico In Brief – Meta Platforms will not sign onto the Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI (GPAI) that provides guidance to comply with the EU AI Act. Meta is a leading critic of the EU’s drive to regulate AI. Joel Kaplan, the company’s top global...
President Trump Rolls Out Pro-Tech Industry AI Plan
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – President Trump unveiled his AI Action Plan that doubles down on his Administration’s pro-industry stance and portrays the technology as critical to winning the economic and security competition with China. In events hosted by digital...
Senator Hawley Judiciary Hearing on Copyright and Piracy in AI Training
Report from Fox Business In Brief – Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), one of Capitol Hill’s foremost Republican critics of large tech companies, chaired a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Crime and Counterterrorism and aggressively criticized Meta and other major...
Epic Settles Android App Store Antitrust Dispute with Samsung
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – Epic Games has settled its legal dispute with Samsung Electronics and will drop claims that the device company conspired with Google to maintain a monopoly over Android app distribution. The app developer’s federal lawsuit accused...
Arkansas Will Delay Enforcement of Social Media Law
Report from MediaPost In Brief – The Attorney General of Arkansas has agreed that the state will not enforce legislation that prohibits social media platforms from using algorithms that could “cause” a user to commit suicide, buy drugs, develop an eating disorder, or...
Brazil Tariff Threats Linked to Internet Policies and Bolsonaro Trial
Report from The Hill In Brief – Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced that he backs the Brazilian Supreme Court’s (STF) decision to increase the liability of social media platforms in the country for content posted by their users, which has...
Apple’s DMA App Store Offer May Gain Approval from the EU Commission
Report from Reuters In Brief – The European Commission’s antitrust regulators are reportedly preparing to accept Apple’s latest proposal to comply with the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) on App Store rules and fees. The Commission announced in April that they were...
German Court Clears Meta to Train AI with Some EU User Data
Report from The Decoder In Brief – A German regional court has cleared Meta to use public data from Facebook and Instagram users to train its AI systems, dismissing an emergency lawsuit from a consumer protection group. Back in April, Meta announced that it would...
Texas Law Will Put Online Age Verification Duties on App Stores
Report from the New York Times In Brief – Texas is the second state to require app store operators to verify all users’ ages and then block minors from downloading apps without the permission of a parent or legal guardian. SB 2420, the App Store Accountability Act,...
European Hotels to Sue Booking for Retail Price Fixing Damages
Report from Reuters In Brief – Hotel associations from 26 European markets plan to file a class-action lawsuit against Booking .com in the Netherlands over the platform’s long-time use of price parity contract clauses that prohibited hotels using the site from...
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German Court Says Meta is Responsible for Scam Ads Because of Algorithms
Report from The Next Web In Brief – A German court has ruled that Meta is responsible for fake investment ads posted by third parties on Facebook and Instagram, ordering the company to remove the ads and pay damages. The ruling by the Frankfurt Regional Court is not...
Google Challenges EU Orders to Share Search Data and Open Android to AI
Report from Reuters In Brief – Google has challenged two European Commission orders requiring it to open parts of its services to competitors, arguing that the measures would undermine privacy and security protections for European users. The orders issued in July are...
Florida Attorney General Asks Court to Block OpenAI in the State
Report from Axios In Brief – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) has asked a Florida state court for a temporary injunction blocking OpenAI from operating its services in the state, arguing that the company cannot adequately regulate its own AI technology. The...
Pentagon Wins Court Round Two Over Anthropic Blacklisting
Report from Politico In Brief – A three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the Pentagon can blacklist AI company Anthropic for the Department of Defense and its contractors. Two judges found that the agency had sufficient grounds to...
UK Parliament’s Human Rights Committee Calls for AI Safety Legislation
Report from The European In Brief – The UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights has called for a dedicated AI Bill and a new national AI regulator with powers to ban the release of the most powerful systems if they risk widespread harm or can evade effective...
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