Report from The Guardian In Brief – Apple has again launched a legal challenge to a UK government order calling for access to customers’ encrypted iCloud data. The move comes a year after the Home Office withdrew a broader request that led to a dispute with...

Report from Politico In Brief – The French Constitutional Court has struck down the country’s new law banning social media for children under 15, a flagship priority of President Emmanuel Macron. The court ruled that the measure disproportionately infringed minors’...

Report from ArsTechnica In Brief – US District Judge Paul Engelmayer has largely denied a motion to dismiss from SerpApi, a company accused of conspiring with Perplexity AI to illegally scrape copyrighted Reddit content from Google search results....

Report from MediaPost In Brief – The AI transparency rules required by Article 50 of the EU’s AI Act have taken effect, requiring companies to clearly disclose when users are interacting with artificial intelligence or viewing AI-generated or manipulated images, audio...

Report from Reuters In Brief – European lawyers and litigation financiers say that the European Commission’s recent decision to fine Google $1 billion for violating the Digital Markets Act (DMA) may add to the wave of private antitrust lawsuits that the search giant...

Report from the Washington Post In Brief – OpenAI and Anthropic have endorsed a petition urging the US government to help create an international regime to slow down and regulate the pace of “automated AI development.” It is signed by over 1,200 “employees of frontier...

Report from MediaPost In Brief – Federal District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has dismissed Google's complaint against the Texas-based company SerpApi for allegedly violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anti-circumvention provisions by evading...

Report from Bloomberg In Brief – A three-judge panel of the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to block key sections of the Texas SCOPE Act that aims to protect teens from harmful online content such as promoting substance abuse and eating disorders, but...

Report from the New York Times In Brief – A Florida pastor has sued OpenAI in California Superior Court alleging ChatGPT provided dangerous medical advice, delaying care before he was hospitalized with a life-threatening pulmonary embolism. The complaint alleges that...

Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – A Florida teenager suing social-media companies over claims that their platforms contributed to his mental health problems has dropped his lawsuit against Meta, leading to the cancellation of the second “bellwether” trial...