Report from CNBC In Brief – California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has signed SB 947, the No Robo Bosses Act, making California the first state to prohibit employers from relying solely on artificial intelligence to discipline or fire workers. Employers that heavily use...
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...
German Court Says Meta is Responsible for Scam Ads Because of Algorithms
Report from The Next Web In Brief – A German court has ruled that Meta is responsible for fake investment ads posted by third parties on Facebook and Instagram, ordering the company to remove the ads and pay damages. The ruling by the Frankfurt Regional Court is not...
Google Challenges EU Orders to Share Search Data and Open Android to AI
Report from Reuters In Brief – Google has challenged two European Commission orders requiring it to open parts of its services to competitors, arguing that the measures would undermine privacy and security protections for European users. The orders issued in July are...
Florida Attorney General Asks Court to Block OpenAI in the State
Report from Axios In Brief – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) has asked a Florida state court for a temporary injunction blocking OpenAI from operating its services in the state, arguing that the company cannot adequately regulate its own AI technology. The...
Pentagon Wins Court Round Two Over Anthropic Blacklisting
Report from Politico In Brief – A three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the Pentagon can blacklist AI company Anthropic for the Department of Defense and its contractors. Two judges found that the agency had sufficient grounds to...
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President Macron Wants the DSA Used More to Control “Nonsense” Speech
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...
Federal Appeals Court Panel Upholds Florida Teen Social Media Law
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...
The Federal Trade Commission is Investigating Anthropic and OpenAI
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...
Polish Antitrust Regulator Presses Google on Media Payments
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...
White House SI Force Orders AI Companies to Quickly Report Incidents
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...
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