Report from The Media Leader In Brief – The Paris Commercial Court has ordered Google to pay €16.2 million to French sports newspaper L’Équipe for damages caused by its anti-competitive practices in online advertising. The ruling builds on a 2021 decision by the...
EU Parliament Backs AI Intimate Images Ban in Digital Omnibus
Report from Reuters In Brief – The European Parliament is backing a proposal to amend the AI Act to prohibit apps from creating sexualized images of people without their consent. The ban on so-called “nudification” apps, which follows similar backing from the EU...
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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