Report from Silicon Republic In Brief – Ireland’s media regulator, the Coimisiún na Meán (CnaM), has launched its first investigation under the country’s Online Safety Code, scrutinizing social media platform X for its compliance with requirements designed to protect...
Florida AG Sues Netflix Following the Social Media Litigation Playbook
Report from NBC News In Brief – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) has filed a 66-page lawsuit against Netflix, accusing the streaming giant of misleading Florida consumers about its data-collection practices and exposing children and families to so-called...
SpaceXAI Fails to Block Minnesota Law Banning “Nudification” Apps
Report from Politico In Brief – Federal Judge Donovan Frank rejected SpaceXAI’s effort to block Minnesota’s law banning the creation of sexually explicit deepfake images while the company challenges the measure. Frank said the company, then xAI, waited too long to...
Australia Digital Duty of Care Law to Require Algorithm Choice
Report from ABC News Australia In Brief – The Australian Government has released draft legislation to add a Digital Duty of Care to the Online Safety Act of 2021. A key provision is the “My Feed, My Way” initiative requiring social media platforms to give all users a...
Google Updates Gmail Spam Filters for Political Fundraising
Report from Campaigns & Elections In Brief – Google has put in place a Gmail policy that will make it somewhat easier for political campaigns and committees to reach personal Gmail inboxes by allowing eligible political entities to become “verified senders,” bypassing...
European Commission Proposes Age-Based Social Media and Chatbot Rules
Report from the Financial Times In Brief – European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced plans for an EU KIDS Act to create age-based rules limiting minors’ access to social media, AI chatbots and companions, online game and video-sharing platforms,...
X Loses Challenge to NY Law for Disclosure of Content Moderation Practices
Report from Reuters In Brief – US District Judge John Cronan in Manhattan has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X’s that sought to invalidate a 2024 New York law requiring large social media companies to disclose how they monitor hate speech, extremism,...
Trump’s Former AI Czar Says Top AI Companies Can and Should Slow Down
Report from TheNextWeb In Brief – White House technology advisor David Sacks told Anthropic and OpenAI in a post on X to go ahead and pace the frontier of AI development but to stop seeking an antitrust waiver or an approval regime, arguing that product liability and...
EU Court Confirms a Key DMA Core Platform Services Rule
Report from Euractiv In Brief – The EU’s General Court has backed the European Commission’s determination that Microsoft’s Edge browser is not a regulated core platform service under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The Commission concluded that despite Edge technically...
Trump Department of Justice Argues That AI Training is Copyright Fair Use
Report from MediaPost In Brief – The US Department of Justice has filed a brief in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against OpenAI arguing that training AI models on copyrighted works is generally transformative and fair use under US copyright law because...
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California Enacts AI Law to Require Notification of AI in Advertising
Report from MediaPost In Brief – California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has signed SB 1050 into law requiring advertisements featuring “synthetic” performers to disclose when the digital figures were generated by AI. The measure, which was strongly backed by the Screen...
Meta Lawsuits Challenge UK Online Safety Act Implementation
Report from the Financial Times In Brief – Meta is mounting another legal challenge against Ofcom over the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA), adding to a series of court actions by US technology companies that British officials and politicians argue are intended to delay...
Judge Rules that Montana Political Deepfake Law is Likely Unconstitutional
Report from NBC Montana In Brief – US District Judge Susan Watters has ruled that a Montana law requiring disclosures on certain AI-generated political ads likely violates the First Amendment in an order barring the state from enforcing the measure against former...
Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse Shopping Agent
Report from MediaPost In Brief – Amazon is restricting its customers from using Meta’s Muse AI agent after Meta declined Amazon’s request to remove the site from Muse’s operations. Amazon shoppers attempting to use Muse now receive an automated message saying that...
California Passes a News Media Jobs Tax Credit without Big Tech Funding
Report from The Well News In Brief – California lawmakers have passed a bill creating a refundable tax credit for local news organizations to hire and retain journalists. Assembly Bill 2222, the Community Newsroom Employment and Workforce Sustainability Act,...
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