Report from the Reuters In Brief – A three-judge panel of the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that had fully upheld the October 2024 District Court injunction in Epic Games’ successful antitrust lawsuit against Google, halted the requirement that it implement...
Brazil Discussing Digital Platform Regulations as US Tariffs Bite
Report from the >New York Times In Brief – Amidst a tariff standoff with the Trump Administration that includes accusations from President Trump and various US conservatives that critics of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his backers in the...
Supreme Court Rejects Motion to Pause Mississippi Social Media Law
Report from the >New York Times In Brief – The Supreme Court denied an emergency request by digital company trade group NetChoice to halt a Mississippi law that requires social media platforms to verify all users’ ages, prohibits minors from creating social media...
Federal Appeals Court Rejects Maryland Digital Tax Ban on Bill Line-Item
Report from the Reuters In Brief – A three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit of the US Court of Appeals has unanimously blocked a provision in Maryland’s landmark 2021 digital advertising services tax that barred companies from using a line-item on bills to inform...
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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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