Report from Crowdfund Insider In Brief – Sweden’s Patent and Market Court has delayed until June 10th its decision in a major antitrust damages case between comparison shopping site PriceRunner, which is owned by Sweden-based fintech company Klarna, and Google, citing...
Appeals Court Rejects Bid to Reinstate Virginia Social Media Time Limits
Report from MediaPost In Brief – A federal appeals court has denied Virginia’s request to enforce SB 854, its new law requiring social media platforms to verify users’ ages and limit minors under 16 to one hour of daily use unless they receive parental consent to use...
Indonesia Warns YouTube Over Not Complying with Age Limit Rules
Report from Business Today In Brief – Indonesia has issued a formal reprimand to Google over noncompliance by its YouTube service with the country’s new child-protection rules for social media platforms that took effect March 28. The regulations require “high-risk”...
xAI Challenging Colorado AI “Safety” Law Over First Amendment Violations
Report from Jurist News In Brief – xAI, the AI company founded by Elon Musk, has filed a federal lawsuit arguing that Colorado’s Consumer Protections for Artificial Intelligence (CPAI) law unconstitutionally forces developers to incorporate the state’s preferred...
Meta Sued for Addictive Design in Denmark by Nonprofit Association
Report from Anadolu News In Brief – A Danish non-profit association, SOMI, has filed a lawsuit against Meta in Denmark on behalf of parents and children, alleging that the company’s platforms cause psychological harm to minors. The complaint in Copenhagen City Court...
Florida AG Investigating ChatGPT After Alleged Use by University Shooter
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has launched an investigation into OpenAI and its ChatGPT models, citing concerns about national security and potential links to criminal activity. Uthmeier released a video on...
Macron Calls for EU Commission to Strictly Apply DSA to Election Content
Report from EuroNews In Brief – French President Emmanuel Macron is calling on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to fully enforce the Digital Services Act (DSA) to counter foreign election interference ahead of major votes in 11 EU countries in 2026...
Major Brazilian Law to Protect Teens on Social Media Goes into Effect
Report from AP News In Brief – A Brazilian law enacted last September to shield minors from harmful online content has taken effect with experts calling it a milestone in the protection of children and adolescents. The Digital Statute of Children and Adolescents does...
European Commission Expands Their DSA Probe of Online Porn Sites
Report from CBC News In Brief – The European Commission has announced that they have preliminarily found four large adult content platforms to be in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) for failing to protect minors from being exposed to pornographic content on...
UK Government Targeting Manosphere Content on Online Platforms
Report from The Guardian In Brief – More than 60 Labour MPs have urged Ofcom, the country’s communications and digital regulator, to use its authority under the Online Safety Act to press platforms to better protect young men from risks they argue are linked to...
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Reddit’s DMCA Lawsuit Against SerpApi and Perplexity Survives Dismissal
Report from ArsTechnica In Brief – US District Judge Paul Engelmayer has largely denied a motion to dismiss from SerpApi, a company accused of conspiring with Perplexity AI to illegally scrape copyrighted Reddit content from Google search results....
European Commission Issues AI Content Notification Rules
Report from MediaPost In Brief – The AI transparency rules required by Article 50 of the EU’s AI Act have taken effect, requiring companies to clearly disclose when users are interacting with artificial intelligence or viewing AI-generated or manipulated images, audio...
More Follow-On Lawsuits for Google Likely After Latest DMA Fine
Report from Reuters In Brief – European lawyers and litigation financiers say that the European Commission’s recent decision to fine Google $1 billion for violating the Digital Markets Act (DMA) may add to the wave of private antitrust lawsuits that the search giant...
More Really Smart Tech People Call for International AI Governance
Report from the Washington Post In Brief – OpenAI and Anthropic have endorsed a petition urging the US government to help create an international regime to slow down and regulate the pace of “automated AI development.” It is signed by over 1,200 “employees of frontier...
Judge Dismisses Google’s DMCA Search Scraping Lawsuit
Report from MediaPost In Brief – Federal District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has dismissed Google's complaint against the Texas-based company SerpApi for allegedly violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anti-circumvention provisions by evading...
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