Report from MediaPost In Brief – US District Judge George Wu has rejected a proposed $400 million settlement between the Justice Department and TikTok over allegations that the platform violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting...

Report from Bloomberg In Brief – A lawsuit alleges that Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Google illegally agreed to slow the pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development, depriving paying subscribers of product improvements they otherwise would have received. According...

Report from Engadget In Brief – TikTok has agreed to make changes to its app and pay Alabama at least $100 million to settle a lawsuit by the state that alleged that the app was deliberately designed to keep children and teenagers addicted to social media. The...

Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – President Trump reiterated his opposition to regulations that could constrain artificial-intelligence development, arguing that responsible practices by the leading AI companies backed up by existing laws and federal...

Report from MediaPost In Brief – California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has signed SB 1050 into law requiring advertisements featuring “synthetic” performers to disclose when the digital figures were generated by AI. The measure, which was strongly backed by the Screen...

Report from the Financial Times In Brief – Meta is mounting another legal challenge against Ofcom over the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA), adding to a series of court actions by US technology companies that British officials and politicians argue are intended to delay...

Report from NBC Montana In Brief – US District Judge Susan Watters has ruled that a Montana law requiring disclosures on certain AI-generated political ads likely violates the First Amendment in an order barring the state from enforcing the measure against former...

Report from MediaPost In Brief – Amazon is restricting its customers from using Meta’s Muse AI agent after Meta declined Amazon’s request to remove the site from Muse’s operations. Amazon shoppers attempting to use Muse now receive an automated message saying that...

Report from The Well News In Brief – California lawmakers have passed a bill creating a refundable tax credit for local news organizations to hire and retain journalists. Assembly Bill 2222, the Community Newsroom Employment and Workforce Sustainability Act,...

Report from MediaPost In Brief – A divided federal appeals court has rejected Virginia’s request to lift an injunction blocking its law requiring social-media platforms to verify users’ ages and limit minors under 16 to one hour of daily access unless they have...