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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Meta Delays New Terms of Use Criticized by Publishers Over AI Scraping
Report from Reuters In Brief – Meta will delay implementing its updated commercial terms of service until November 20 to address concerns from some publishers that the changes could grant the digital giant unlimited rights to scrape their content for AI services. EU...
Booking Faces European Commission DSA Investigation of Fraud Policies
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – The European Commission has begun a formal investigation into whether Booking breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) by failing to adequately address online fraud and provide users with proper transparency into...
FTC Demands Nine Companies Give Data on Pricing and Gig Pay Practices
Report from Reuters In Brief – The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is demanding information from Delta, United, JetBlue, Lyft, Uber, DoorDash, Instacart, Target and Walmart about how they use personal data, including location, browsing history and income, to set...
Germany’s Top Civil Court Asks for More EU Views on Host Provider Liability
Report from Der Spiegel In Brief – Germany’s Federal Court of Justice has again suspended Green Party politician Renate Künast’s lawsuit against Meta and referred what it believes are unresolved legal questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for...
EU Commission Has Plan to Tax Tech Giants by Taxing Giant Companies
Report from the Financial Times In Brief – The European Commission is examining a plan to impose a big annual lump-sum levy on the largest, most profitable companies operating in Europe as a way to tax the US-based tech giants without imposing a direct tax on just...
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