Report from Reuters In Brief – TikTok is reported to be planning to shutdown their US app on Sunday, January 19th if the US Supreme Court or Biden Administration does not issue an order delaying the effective date of the federal law requiring the company’s US...
OpenAI Removes Political Bias Landmine from AI Policy Document
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – OpenAI quietly edited its “Economic Blueprint” soon after release to remove language in the section on “the proper rules” for AI that called for AI models to be “politically unbiased by default”. The report is part of a public policy...
Supreme Court Justices Sound Amenable to Age Checks for Online Porn
Report from the New York Times In Brief – Several members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appear willing to overturn a 2004 decision that prohibited requiring online pornography sites to use age verification techniques to keep underage users off their...
Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Law
Report from Platform Economy Insights In Brief – The US Supreme Court decisively ruled against the First Amendment challenges of TikTok and a group of content creators against the federal law that requires the business to be sold by China-based ByteDance to a new...
EU Commission Expands X Investigation to Include Recommender Systems
Report from Euronews In Brief – As expected, the European Commission has announced the expansion of its ongoing investigation of X under the Digital Services Act (DSA) to include reviewing the operations of its recommender systems, including the algorithms that...
European Commission Reviewing Ongoing Big Tech Investigations (or Not)
Report from the Financial Times In Brief – The European Commission is reported to be undertaking an internal review of all the investigations of major US tech companies begun during the past year, including under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulating the largest...
Digital Giants Agree to Updated EU Hate Speech Code of Conduct
Report from The Verge In Brief – The European Commission announced that the Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech Online + has been formally integrated into the Digital Services Act (DSA). The updated code builds upon the initial EU Code of Conduct created...
President Trump Fully Revokes President Biden’s Executive Order on AI
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – President Donald Trump revoked President Biden’s Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence as one of the 78 Biden Administration executive orders and memorandums included in his Inauguration Day Executive Order fully rescinding...
UK Government Replaces Antitrust Chief with Former Amazon Executive
Report from the BBC In Brief – UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Government has forced out Marcus Bokkerink as the chair of its antitrust regulator for failing to prioritize the government’s economic growth agenda. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves said she...
Billionaires and Others Eyeing Potential TikTok Purchase Overseen by Trump
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – Following President Trump’s issuance of an executive order extending by 75 days the deadline for ByteDance to divest ownership of TikTok’s US operations or see the service shut down, a growing array of business leaders, investors, and...
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Apple in European Court Because the DMA Outlaws Apple’s Business Model
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – In a hearing before the EU General Court in Luxembourg, Apple launched a sweeping legal attack against the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), arguing that the bloc’s landmark Big Tech regulation imposes “hugely onerous and intrusive”...
California Enacts Law Regulating AI Chatbot Companion Services
Report from The Verge In Brief – California has enacted legislation requiring companion chatbot developers to implement safeguards so that users are not misled into believing that they are interacting with a human. The measure requires a clear and conspicuous...
Louisiana Attorney General Sues Roblox for Failing to Protect Children
Report from the TechCrunch In Brief – The Attorney General of Louisiana has filed a lawsuit against Roblox, a vast platform of user-generated games and interactive experiences, accusing the company of failing to protect children and making the site the “perfect place...
Ohio State Judge Rules That Google is not a Common Carrier
Report from the MediaPost In Brief – Ohio State Judge James Schuck has dismissed state Attorney General David Yost’s lawsuit arguing that Google should governed under state law as a “common carrier’, comparable to a telecommunications company or electric utility, and...
4Chan Fighting Extra-Territorial Enforcement of UK Online Safety Act
Report from the BBC In Brief – The online message board 4chan, where users post texts and images anonymously and face minimal content moderation, has declared it will not pay fines imposed by Ofcom, the UK regulator that is charged with enforcing the new Online Safety...
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