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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...
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