Report from Politico In Brief – Meta Platforms will not sign onto the Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI (GPAI) that provides guidance to comply with the EU AI Act. Meta is a leading critic of the EU’s drive to regulate AI. Joel Kaplan, the company’s top global...
President Trump Rolls Out Pro-Tech Industry AI Plan
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – President Trump unveiled his AI Action Plan that doubles down on his Administration’s pro-industry stance and portrays the technology as critical to winning the economic and security competition with China. In events hosted by digital...
Senator Hawley Judiciary Hearing on Copyright and Piracy in AI Training
Report from Fox Business In Brief – Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), one of Capitol Hill’s foremost Republican critics of large tech companies, chaired a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Crime and Counterterrorism and aggressively criticized Meta and other major...
Epic Settles Android App Store Antitrust Dispute with Samsung
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – Epic Games has settled its legal dispute with Samsung Electronics and will drop claims that the device company conspired with Google to maintain a monopoly over Android app distribution. The app developer’s federal lawsuit accused...
Arkansas Will Delay Enforcement of Social Media Law
Report from MediaPost In Brief – The Attorney General of Arkansas has agreed that the state will not enforce legislation that prohibits social media platforms from using algorithms that could “cause” a user to commit suicide, buy drugs, develop an eating disorder, or...
Brazil Tariff Threats Linked to Internet Policies and Bolsonaro Trial
Report from The Hill In Brief – Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced that he backs the Brazilian Supreme Court’s (STF) decision to increase the liability of social media platforms in the country for content posted by their users, which has...
Apple’s DMA App Store Offer May Gain Approval from the EU Commission
Report from Reuters In Brief – The European Commission’s antitrust regulators are reportedly preparing to accept Apple’s latest proposal to comply with the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) on App Store rules and fees. The Commission announced in April that they were...
German Court Clears Meta to Train AI with Some EU User Data
Report from The Decoder In Brief – A German regional court has cleared Meta to use public data from Facebook and Instagram users to train its AI systems, dismissing an emergency lawsuit from a consumer protection group. Back in April, Meta announced that it would...
Texas Law Will Put Online Age Verification Duties on App Stores
Report from the New York Times In Brief – Texas is the second state to require app store operators to verify all users’ ages and then block minors from downloading apps without the permission of a parent or legal guardian. SB 2420, the App Store Accountability Act,...
European Hotels to Sue Booking for Retail Price Fixing Damages
Report from Reuters In Brief – Hotel associations from 26 European markets plan to file a class-action lawsuit against Booking .com in the Netherlands over the platform’s long-time use of price parity contract clauses that prohibited hotels using the site from...
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European Digital Sovereignty Drive Impacted by Germany-France Split
Report from Politico In Brief – Although EU-wide concerns with economic and strategic vulnerabilities caused by overwhelming reliance on non-European technology providers have taken hold on the continent and calls for “digital sovereignty” are increasingly...
Meta Granted More Time to Ease Change to User Feeds in Netherlands
Report from Telecompape In Brief – A Dutch court has extended until the end of 2025 the time that Meta has to modify the Facebook and Instagram services used in the Netherlands to allow users to easily set a chronological feed as the default for their homepage and...
Federal Judge Approves Settlement of Mobile Device Location Data Class Action
Report from MediaPost In Brief – District Judge Lynn Winmill has granted final approval to a class-action settlement requiring data broker Kochava to overhaul its privacy practices following allegations that it sold users’ location data without consent. Kochava agreed...
France Temporarily Suspends Effort to Shut Down Shein
Report from Reuters In Brief – The French Finance Ministry has suspended proceedings aiming to block the website of Chinese retail marketplace Shein in France that it initiated after government officials reported that they found illegal products, including “childlike”...
Google Hit with Follow-On Digital AdTech Antitrust Lawsuit
Report from PPC Land In Brief – Canada-based Index Exchange, a digital AdTech business founded in 2003, has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google that aims to build on US District Judge Leonie Brinkema’s April 2025 ruling that Google willfully maintained monopoly...
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