Report from the New York Times In Brief – Apple has acknowledged a bug with the iPhone’s dictation feature that sometimes surfaces when a user says the word “racist”, with the phone briefly displaying “Trump” before landing on the correct word. The company claimed...
Amazon Must Face Price-Parity Antitrust Lawsuit from Zulily
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – US District Judge John Chun, who is overseeing a collection of federal antitrust cases targeting Amazon’s marketplace practices, has rejected the company’s bid to have a lawsuit from now-defunct online apparel marketplace Zulily fully...
Polish Comparison-Shopping Site Sues Google for Years of Damages
Report from Reuters In Brief – Google has been sued by Ceneo, a Poland-based comparison-shopping unit of European ecommerce platform Allegro, seeking 2.33 billion zlotys (about $568 million) for damages suffered at the hands of the digital giant from 2013 through...
Mexico Enacts Gig Worker Legislation Classifying Top Earners as Employees
Report from Mexico News Daily In Brief – Mexico has enacted “Gig Worker” legislation that aims to provide hundreds of thousands of platform-enabled workers with traditional employment benefits and protections. The new law, which goes into effect in June, establishes...
Supreme Court Hears Arguments Over Law Requiring ByteDance to Sell TikTok
Report from Platform Economy Insights In Brief – The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments earlier today on the constitutional challenges filed by TikTok and a group of content creators against the federal law that requires the business to be sold by China-based...
Meta Trials eBay Listings in Facebook Marketplace to Address EU Concerns
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – Meta and eBay have each announced that the social media giant would run a test in Germany, France, and the US enabling people to browse listings from eBay on Facebook Marketplace and complete transactions on eBay. The...
Federal Judge Rejects Blocking Some Aspects of California’s Social Media Law
Report from Courthouse News Service In Brief – US District Judge Edward Davila responded to a motion to enjoin California’s Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act by blocking some provisions, rejecting the motion to block some sections, and granting...
UK PM Keir Starmer Continues to Pitch AI Investment as a Top Tech Priority
Report from CNBC In Brief – UK Prime Minister Kein Starmer continued to press forward on initiatives he argues will make the UK “the best state partner” in the world for “anyone working at the AI frontier”, releasing an AI Opportunities Action Plan focused on building...
Zuckerberg Wants Trump to Protect US Tech Giants from EU Regulators
Report from Euractiv In Brief – In a major one-on-one interview with leading podcaster Joe Rogan, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg framed the company’s public policy battles in Europe in the context of “censorship” and argued that incoming President Donald Trump should step...
UK CMA Open Probe of Google Search Under New Competition Law
Report from CNBC In Brief – The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened an investigation of Google under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer’s Act (DMCC) to determine if the digital giant has “strategic market status” (SMS) under the new law...
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Apple Says It May Disable App Tracking Transparency Rules in Europe
Report from DPA International In Brief – Apple is saying that it might turn off its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature in Europe due to regulatory pressure that the iPhone giant attributes to lobbying from the advertising industry. ATT is the Apple policy that...
Character.AI Setting an 18-Year-Old Age Limit for Its Companion Chatbots
Report from New York Times In Brief – AI “companion” company Character.AI has announced that they will bar users under 18 from its chatbots in a sweeping move to address concerns over teen safety. The move follows mounting scrutiny over how AI chatbot companions can...
Google and Epic Games Settle Federal Antitrust Battle Over the Play Store
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – Google and Epic Games have agreed to settle their long-running antitrust battle over the rules and fees of the Android Play Store, with Google agreeing to implement changes both sides say will lower fees and expand choices for...
Reddit and Kick Added to Social Media Platforms Facing Aussie Age Limit
Report from BBC In Brief – The Australian eSafety Commissioner has announced that nine digital platforms will be required to comply with the country’s new threshold of 16 years of age for individuals to have an account on social media platforms when the mandate goes...
EU Commission Expected to Propose GDPR Changes to Ease AI Training
Report from Computerworld In Brief – The European Commission is planning to propose revisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) intended to ease the ability to train AI systems with data collected in Europe as part of its “Digital Omnibus”...
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