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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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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