Report from TechCrunch In Brief – Italy’s competition authority announced that it has ordered Meta to immediately freeze a policy change that would ban rival generative AI chatbots from operating on WhatsApp. The order applies to WhatsApp in Italy pending the outcome...
Judge Blocks Texas Law Requiring Apple and Google to Verify User Age
Report from MediaPost In Brief – Federal District Judge Robert Pitman has blocked Texas from enforcing a new state law that requires companies that run app stores, like Apple and Google, to verify the age of users and obtain parental consent for users under 18 to...
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Italian Publishers File a DSA Complaint About Google AI Overviews
Report from The Guardian In Brief – FIEG, the Italian federation of newspaper publishers, has announced that it has submitted a formal complaint to Agcom, Italy’s communications watchdog, calling for an investigation into Google’s AI Overviews, arguing that the search...
Klarna Sues Google to Win Billions Over Shopping Site Discrimination
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – A Swedish court has begun hearing arguments in a lawsuit brought by Pricerunner, a shopping comparison site owned by Swedish fintech giant Klarna, against Google. The civil lawsuit is one of many being pursued by European...
Apple and Google Mobile Ecosystems Designated with UK Strategic Market Status
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has designated both the Apple and Google mobile ecosystems as having “strategic market status” (SMS) under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer’s Act (DMCC). The CMA found that...
EU Commission Finds Meta and TikTok in Violation of the DSA
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The European Commission has issued a preliminary decision finding Meta’s Facebook and Instagram and TikTok all in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) for not allowing independent researchers to easily access data regarding content...
Judge Approves Refined Settlement in AI-Related Copyright Class Action
Report from AP News In Brief – Federal Judge William Alsup has granted preliminary approval to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement resolving an authors’ copyright class action lawsuit alleging that the company illegally downloaded pirated books. Judge Alsup...
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