Report from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation In Brief – Judge Jonathan Beach of the Federal Court of Australia has found the Apple and Google app stores to be uncompetitive, delivering a win to giant app developer Epic Games in its effort to force the two...
Match Group Settles FTC Complaint on Cancellation Processes
Report from the MediaPost In Brief – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that online dating service Match Group has agreed to pay $14 million to settle a complaint that was initially filed by the regulator in 2019. The FTC accused Match of violating the...
Google and Apple Designated as having Strategic Market Status in UK
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed designating the mobile ecosystems run by Apple and Google as having “strategic market status” (SMS) under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer’s...
No Tech Changes in US-EU Trade Deal but Issues Are Still on the Table
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The framework US–EU trade deal reached by US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen does not include a pledge to end EU digital services taxes (DST) or moderate European regulation of digital...
EU AI Act Enforcement Regime Begins for Big Foundation Models (Sort of)
Report from EuroNews In Brief – The latest phase of the multi-year implementation timeline for the EU AI Act took effect on August 2, including rules regulating new General Purpose AI (GPAI) models and the requirement that EU member states appoint their compliance...
Top Irish Court Rejects X’s Attempt to Avoid National Online Safety Regime
Report from Euractiv In Brief – The Irish High Court has rejected X’s legal challenge arguing that the Irish Online Safety Code should not apply to it because it conflicted with the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) that regulates how digital platforms address illegal...
European Hotels File Class Action Lawsuit Against Booking for Price Fixing
Report from the Luxembourg Times In Brief – More than 10,000 European hotel owners are joining together in a class action suit against the online platform Booking. com, claiming that they were financially harmed by the platform’s long-time use of price parity contract...
Robby Starbuck Settles with Meta on AI Defamation and Will Advise on Bias
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – Robby Starbuck, a conservative activist who has pressured companies to change their DEI practices, has settled a defamation lawsuit he brought against Meta that alleged the company’s AI tool smeared him by falsely...
Federal Judge Withdraws Opinion Riddled with Likely AI Hallucinations
Report from the Bloomberg In Brief – A New Jersey US district court judge withdrew his decision in a biopharma securities case after lawyers pointed out that his opinion contained numerous errors, including made-up quotes and misstated case outcomes. Judge Julien...
Wikipedia Loses Initial Court Challenge to Online Safety Act Classification
Report from the The Guardian In Brief – Justice Jeremy Johnson of the High Court in London has rejected the Wikimedia Foundation’s effort to have the court rule that Wikipedia should not be categorized as a Category 1 platform under the UK Online Safety Act (OSA),...
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US Department of Justice Joins xAI Lawsuit Challenging Colorado AI Law
Report from the Colorado Sun In Brief – The US Department of Justice has joined a lawsuit filed by xAI, the AI company owned by Elon Musk, seeking to block Colorado’s first-in-the-nation AI safety law from taking effect. Senate Bill 205, which was signed into law in...
Norwegian Government Announces Their Plan for a Social Media Age Limit
Report from Reuters In Brief – The Government of Norway has announced that it will a submit a bill in parliament by year-end to ban teens from using social media until January 1 of the year they turn 16. Access to social media won’t be based strictly on birthdays, but...
FTC Settles Ad Agencies to End Group Online “Brand Safety” Standards
Report from MediaPost In Brief – The Federal Trade Commission announced antitrust settlement agreements with major advertising holding companies Dentsu, Publicis, and WPP to end what the regulator alleges was unlawful collusion in setting industry-wide “brand safety”...
US Department of Justice Won’t Help French Prosecutors Probe Musk’s X
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – The US Justice Department is declining to assist French authorities investigating X, describing the effort as a politically motivated misuse of the criminal justice system to regulate online speech in a way that conflicts...
Another Arkansas Social Media Law Blocked by Federal Judge
Report from the Arkansas Advocate In Brief – US District Judge Timothy Brooks has issued a temporary injunction blocking Arkansas Act 900 that was set to restrict minors from accessing social media with certain features. The 2025 law, challenged by the tech industry...
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