Report from Reuters In Brief – Lawyers for the AI company Anthropic submitted a court filing that included a citation “hallucination” created by the company’s AI chatbot Clause. The filing was part of expert testimony from one of the company’s data scientists in...
Japan’s Antitrust Authority Releases Draft App Store Regulations
Report from Kyodo News In Brief – The Japan Fair Trade Commission, the country’s antitrust authority, has unveiled draft guidelines for the new law that will regulate how Google and Apple operate their smartphone app stores and compete with third-party app developers....
Apple Finally Restores Epic Game’s Fortnite to the US App Store
Report from the New York Times In Brief – More than four-and-half years after blocking Epic Games’ highly popular Fortnite gaming app from its app stores in a massive antitrust dispute, Apple has allowed the app to again be in the US App Store. The move came after...
OpenAI Wins Dismissal of AI Hallucination Defamation Lawsuit
Report from Reuters In Brief – OpenAI has won the dismissal of a defamation lawsuit filed by a conservative radio host in Georgia who alleged that the ChatGPT chatbot made false claims that he embezzled money from a gun-rights organization. Judge Tracie Cason of the...
California and Google Cut Funds Pledged to In-State Media Companies
Report from The Hill In Brief – Following California Governor Gavin Newsome’s (D) decision to scale back the state money promised to a new fund to pay California media companies, Google, the one big online company that also promised to contribute millions of dollars,...
Big House Tax Bill Massively Raises Ante in International Digital Tax Standoff
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The massive budget reconciliation tax and spending bill passed by the House of Representatives includes a tax provision that aggressively penalizes foreign countries that impose “unfair” taxes on US companies, bringing the House...
Federal Judge Questions Whether Chatbots Engage in Speech in Character AI Lawsuit
Report from The Verge In Brief – Federal District Judge Anne Conway rejected the efforts of AI companion chatbot service Character AI and Google to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the mother of a teenage user of the service who committed suicide. Conway, who largely...
Missouri AG Regulating Content Moderation Under Consumer Protection Law
Report from MediaPost In Brief – Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced a rule under Missouri’s Merchandising Practices Act that bans social media platforms from setting their own content moderation standards. The rule states that it is an unfair,...
Big House Tax Bill Massively Raises Ante in International Digital Tax Standoff
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The massive budget reconciliation tax and spending bill passed by the House of Representatives includes a tax provision that aggressively penalizes foreign countries that impose “unfair” taxes on US companies, bringing the House...
Missouri AG Regulating Content Moderation Under Consumer Protection Law
Report from MediaPost In Brief – Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced a rule under Missouri’s Merchandising Practices Act that bans social media platforms from setting their own content moderation standards. The rule states that it is an unfair,...
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Google Pulls Gemma AI Developer Tools Following Conservative Criticism
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – Google has removed Gemma, a family of AI models the company says were intended for developers, not consumers, from its AI Studio after US Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) accused the AI model of defamation by fabricating accusations of...
UK Tech Minister Criticizes Ofcom Delaying Some Online Safety Act Rule
Report from National Technology News In Brief – The UK’s technology minister has expressed deep disappointment to communications regulator Ofcom about its updated roadmap for rules implementing the Online Safety Act (OSA) that extends the rollout of some platform...
Judge Delivers Conclusive Win to Meta in Federal Antitrust Trial
Report from New York Times In Brief – Federal Judge James Boasberg has ruled that Meta did not violate federal antitrust law when it acquired Instagram and WhatsApp, delivering a major victory to the social media giant. In an 89-page decision, Judge Boasberg held that...
EU Commission Releases “Digital Omnibus” to Boost European AI and Tech
Report from Reuters In Brief – The EU Commission has announced proposals dubbed the “Digital Omnibus” aimed at simplifying AI and privacy regulations to promote European digital innovation and boost efforts to claw back ground against tech dominance by the US and...
Teen Social Media Class Action Suits Advancing in CA State Court
Report from Deadline In Brief – Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl has rejected the motion for summary judgement filed by Google, Meta, ByteDance and Snap asking the judge to rule that they are not responsible for mental health problems experienced by teen...
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