Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – Meta has announced that it will allow third-party AI chatbots to communicate with users on its WhatsApp messaging platform for a per-message fee in response to pressure from the European Commission. The Commission...
UK Government Vexed About How to Apply Copyright Law to AI Training
Report from the Financial Times In Brief – The UK government is reconsidering a proposal that would allow AI developers, including giants like OpenAI and Google, to train AI models on copyrighted materials without obtaining prior consent from rightsholders. After a...
Kochava Settles Federal Trade Commission Location Privacy Lawsuit
Report from MediaPost In Brief – Data broker Kochava has reportedly negotiated a settlement with lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over allegations that the company improperly sold sensitive mobile device geolocation data. The terms of the deal have not...
Polish Antitrust Agency Investigating Allegro for Unfair Logistics Preferences
Report from TVP World In Brief – Poland’s competition authority (UOKik) is investigating Allegro, the country’s leading e-commerce platform, for allegedly breaching consumer protection and competition rules related to the platform’s logistics services. UOKiK said...
Indonesia Sets a 16-Year-Old Minimum Age for Social Media
Report from the New York Times In Brief – In line with a growing number of countries around the world, the Government of Indonesia announced it will ban teenagers under 16 from accessing social media, citing concerns about online harms and addiction. Indonesia is...
Google and Epic Games Modify Settlement Offer and Google Drops Fees
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – Google and Epic Games have proposed an alternative global settlement to end their antitrust dispute to Judge James Donato who was skeptical of the two companies’ first proposal to modify his remedy order. If approved by the judge,...
Google Market Testing Vertical Search Remedy to Satisfy EU Regulators
Report from Reuters In Brief – Google is rolling out changes to its general search engine result page in Europe that would give greater visibility to rival “vertical search” services. It is a market test of a plan addressing the preliminary determination of the...
US Department of Labor Releases New Business-Friendly Gig Worker Rules
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The US Department of Labor (DoL) has proposed a new rule setting standards for employers and workers to determine if a worker is properly classified as an independent contractor or a company employee. The proposal, which has been...
Aussie Media Wants Big AI Added to the Media Company Payments Regime
Report from The Guardian In Brief – Nine Entertainment, Australia's largest diversified media company with television, radio, print and digital platforms, is urging Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to fast-track legislation reinforcing Australia’s News Media Bargaining...
Japan Fair Trade Commission Raids Microsoft Over Cloud Business
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Trump Cancels Executive Order on “Voluntary” AI Security Reviews
Report from the Washington Post In Brief – President Donald Trump cancelled signing a major executive order on artificial intelligence after last-minute lobbying from leading tech industry figures, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and former White House AI...
Apple Criticizes EU Regulatory Plan to Fully Open Android to AI Developers
Report from Reuters In Brief – Apple is harshly critical of the set of directives compiled by the European Commission (EC) antitrust regulators directing Google to give AI service providers access to a wide range of Android functions. The Draft Measures, released in...
X Commits to Strengthen Anti-Terror Content Moderation in the UK
Report from The Guardian In Brief – Ofcom, the UK regulator enforcing the Online Safety Act (OSA), has announced that X has agreed to strengthen its moderation of terrorist and hate-related content. The commitments stem from Ofcom’s discussions with the top social...
Meta Joins Snap, TikTok and YouTube to Settle School District Lawsuit
Report from the New York Times In Brief – Meta has reached reached a settlement agreement in the first lawsuit headed to trial in federal court over claims that addiction to social media platforms has pushed public schools to spend massive sums fighting a youth mental...
UK Antitrust Authority Investigating Microsoft Business Software Dominance
Report from Reuters In Brief – The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the country’s antitrust regulator, has announced that it will investigate Microsoft's dominance in business software using its powers to oversee big tech. The CMA is opening a "strategic...
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