Report from Reuters In Brief – House Select Committee on China Chair John Moolenaar (R-MI) remains concerned that the deal to transfer control of TikTok’s US assets to US buyers could be problematic if the US platform licenses the content algorithm from China-based...
Italian Publishers File a DSA Complaint About Google AI Overviews
Report from The Guardian In Brief – FIEG, the Italian federation of newspaper publishers, has announced that it has submitted a formal complaint to Agcom, Italy’s communications watchdog, calling for an investigation into Google’s AI Overviews, arguing that the search...
Klarna Sues Google to Win Billions Over Shopping Site Discrimination
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – A Swedish court has begun hearing arguments in a lawsuit brought by Pricerunner, a shopping comparison site owned by Swedish fintech giant Klarna, against Google. The civil lawsuit is one of many being pursued by European...
Apple and Google Mobile Ecosystems Designated with UK Strategic Market Status
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has designated both the Apple and Google mobile ecosystems as having “strategic market status” (SMS) under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer’s Act (DMCC). The CMA found that...
EU Commission Finds Meta and TikTok in Violation of the DSA
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The European Commission has issued a preliminary decision finding Meta’s Facebook and Instagram and TikTok all in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) for not allowing independent researchers to easily access data regarding content...
Judge Approves Refined Settlement in AI-Related Copyright Class Action
Report from AP News In Brief – Federal Judge William Alsup has granted preliminary approval to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement resolving an authors’ copyright class action lawsuit alleging that the company illegally downloaded pirated books. Judge Alsup...
California Enacts Major AI “Safety” Transparency Law
Report from the New York Times In Brief – California has enacted legislation imposing major new transparency requirements on AI developers. The “Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act” (TFAIA) requires developers of the largest AI models to meet the most...
Indian State Court Rejects X’s Challenge of Social Media Policing Regime
Report from Reuters In Brief – The Karnataka High Court has rejected X’s legal challenge to block a centralized social media takedown system run by the government. In its ruling, the High Court argued that social media companies operating in India must adhere to the...
Apple Urges the European Commission to Roll Back the DMA
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – Apple used the European Commission’s first consultation on the impact and effectiveness of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) to reiterate its long-held concerns with the legislation and urge the EU regulators to make changes. Apple wrote...
India May Tweak Retail FDI Rules to Allow Direct Export Sales
Report from Reuters In Brief – India is considering a change in its novel foreign direct investment (FDI) rules for ecommerce companies to allow foreign-owned companies to operate as retail exporters for products made by Indian suppliers. Indian law prohibits foreign...
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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...
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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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