Report from Reuters In Brief – Meta will temporarily exempt Italy from its ban on rival AI chatbots using WhatsApp to interact with customers. The move comes in response to the Italian competition watchdog, AGCM, ordering Meta to suspend the ban while it investigates...
Trade Threat to US Big Tech Again Emerges as Greenland Conflict Heats Up
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – Facing rapid escalation of President’s Trumps demand that Denmark hand over control of Greenland to the United States, including the threat that the US would impose a new 10% tariff on exports from countries that “oppose” his plan as...
Kentucky AG Sues Character.AI for Violating Consumer Protection Law
Report from Mountain Top Media In Brief – Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman has sued the maker of AI companion chatbot Character.AI alleging that its platform harms children and misleads consumers about its safety. Coleman’s office argues the company marketed...
Federal Trade Commission Will Appeal Loss in Meta Antitrust Suit
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The US Federal Trade Commission announced that it notified the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that it will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that Meta does not hold an illegal monopoly in social networking. In the...
Instacart Ends Retailer Access to Single-Store Product Price Testing Tool
Report from CNBC In Brief – Instacart will stop allowing retailers to use its Eversight AI-enabled price testing technology on its grocery delivery platform. The move followed public criticism, a consumer advocacy group study, and scrutiny from lawmakers and...
Google Sues to Stop Massive Scraping of Its Search Results
Report from Reuters In Brief – Google has filed a federal lawsuit accusing SerpApi of illegally and massively circumventing its technical safeguards intended to block automated scraping of search results with the intent of accessing and reselling copyrighted and...
Meta Names Highly-Connected Republican Banker as Company President
Report from The Hill In Brief – Meta has announced the appointment of Dina Powell McCormick as its new president and vice chair as it accelerates investment in artificial intelligence and its “superintelligence” initiative. In the role, Powell McCormick will oversee...
TikTok Will Roll Out Age Estimation Technology in Europe
Report from Reuters In Brief – TikTok will start rolling out a new technology-based age-estimation regime across Europe in the coming weeks with the goal of more effectively identifying and removing accounts belonging to children under 13. The new system follows a...
US TikTok Spinoff Deal Backed by President Trump Finally Completed
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The business deal to spin off the US operations of TikTok from Chinese parent company ByteDance has been finalized, likely securing the app’s ability to operate in the American market. The new US-based entity includes Oracle, Silver...
EU Commission Opens DSA Investigation of Grok’s Sexualized Images on X
Report from CNBC In Brief – The European Commission has announced a new Digital Services Act (DSA) investigation of X and its integration of AI chatbot Grok with functionality that allowed users to create and post realistic manipulated images that could include...
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Google Wins Dismissal of Publisher Antitrust Lawsuits Targeting AI in Search
Report from Reuters In Brief – Federal District Judge Amit Mehta, who found that Google held a monopoly in internet search in 2024, has dismissed a private antitrust lawsuit brough by two online publishers who alleged that the search giant unlawfully used their...
California Enacts Law Setting AI Standards for Legal Practice
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – In response to concerns nationwide over AI-generated legal filings containing hallucinated or misinterpreted case citations, California has enacted first-in-the-nation legislation regulating how attorneys use generative artificial...
Google to Face Federal Defamation Lawsuit Over AI Overviews
Report from the East Bay Times In Brief – A Federal District Judge in Illinois has partly rejected Google’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit by James Keene, a writer, TV producer and former FBI operative, alleging that Google’s AI Overviews defamed him by providing false...
4Chan’s Lawsuit Against UK Ofcom Dismissed in US Court
Report from Law Commentary In Brief – Federal Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington, DC, has dismissed a lawsuit brought by internet platform companies 4chan and Kiwi Farms against Britain’s media regulator Ofcom, determining that the foreign government agency was...
FTC Considering Rules Requiring Platforms to Deal with Fake Ads
Report from MediaPost In Brief – The Federal Trade Commission has issued an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking seeking public comment on the agency possibly issuing regulations that could require online platforms to take steps to combat fraudulent ads. The FTC...
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