Report from USA Today In Brief – The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared skeptical of broadly applying the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) to modern online advertising. The 1988 law prohibits video stores from disclosing the rental history of customers....

Report from CNN In Brief – Character.ai, an AI “companion” chatbot startup facing extensive regulatory pressure and lawsuits alleging its app contributed to teen mental health problems and suicides, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of a plan to sell its...

Report from TechCrunch In Brief – OpenAI announced that it will begin adding an invisible watermark to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex for users in the European Union, complying with transparency requirements under the EU AI Act. OpenAI published a technical...

Report from the Financial Times In Brief – UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan has urged frontier AI companies not to release models they cannot adequately control, while calling for Britain to develop sovereign infrastructure that gives the state greater control over...

Report from Hold the Front Page In Brief – Google will pay UK publisher Reach for content used in its AI-powered search features under a new commercial partnership, making Reach the first major UK regional publisher to secure such an agreement. The deal grants Google...

Report from Digital Watch In Brief – In a speech at Madrid’s Complutense University on his recent state visit to Spain, French President Emmanuel Macron criticized the American conception of free speech, calling it “the opposite of free speech.” He argued that online...

Report from the Orlando Sentinel In Brief – A unanimous three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel has ruled Florida’s law restricting minors’ social media accounts is likely constitutional and is allowing enforcement during remaining litigation. The...

Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – Federal Trade Commission officials have said that the agency is investigating Anthropic and OpenAI over whether they have deceived consumers about potential harms from AI. The effort has reportedly been underway for weeks...

Report from Digital Watch In Brief – Poland’s competition regulator has opened an investigation of Google that accuses the search giant of abusing its market dominance in negotiations with news publishers over payments for the use of media article snippets in results...

Report from Silicon Valley In Brief – The White House, through its recently established Super Intelligence (SI) Force, has demanded “full transparency” and “immediate remediation” after Anthropic disclosed that its AI agents submitted false information to the...