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...
Utah Promises Not to Enforce Law Against VPN Usage for Now
Report from Engadget In Brief – The Utah Department of Commerce has agreed to temporarily suspend enforcement of the state’s new law targeting VPN use to avoid its age limit for online pornography while a federal court considers a legal challenge brough by Aylo, the...
EU places ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox Under Strictest Digital Safety Rules
Report from EuroNews In Brief – The European Commission has announced that ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox are Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) under the Digital Services Act (DSA), subjecting all three to the EU's strictest online safety rules. ChatGPT is the first...
FTC and State AGs Sue Amazon for Deception Costing Advertisers Billions
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – The Federal Trade Commission and 22 state attorneys general have sued Amazon alleging that the e-commerce giant secretly manipulated advertising auctions on its platform to inflate the prices businesses paid for ads by...
California Judge Won’t Stop Amazon Pricing Practices Before Trial
Report from Law.com In Brief – A California judge has denied the state attorney general’s request for a preliminary injunction against Amazon blocking some of its pricing practices related to its wholesale vendors. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman...
Appeals Court Temporarily Blocks Tennessee Social Media Law
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – A divided Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals panel has ordered a federal judge to reconsider his initial ruling not to preliminarily block a Tennessee law requiring parental consent for minors to use social media. Judge Alice Batchelder,...
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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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