Report from MediaPost In Brief – US District Judge George Wu has rejected a proposed $400 million settlement between the Justice Department and TikTok over allegations that the platform violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting...
Private Plaintiffs File Antitrust Suit Alleging AI Slowdown Harms AI Users
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – A lawsuit alleges that Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Google illegally agreed to slow the pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development, depriving paying subscribers of product improvements they otherwise would have received. According...
TikTok Reaches Settlement with Alabama Before Teen Safety Trial Begins
Report from Engadget In Brief – TikTok has agreed to make changes to its app and pay Alabama at least $100 million to settle a lawsuit by the state that alleged that the app was deliberately designed to keep children and teenagers addicted to social media. The...
Trump White House AI Meeting Reconfirms Opposition to Regulatory Regime
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – President Trump reiterated his opposition to regulations that could constrain artificial-intelligence development, arguing that responsible practices by the leading AI companies backed up by existing laws and federal...
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,...
Virginia Law Setting Social Media Time Limits Remains Blocked
Report from MediaPost In Brief – A divided federal appeals court has rejected Virginia’s request to lift an injunction blocking its law requiring social-media platforms to verify users’ ages and limit minors under 16 to one hour of daily access unless they have...
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OpenAI Will Start Watermarking ChatGPT in the EU to Comply with AI Act
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – OpenAI announced that it will begin adding an invisible watermark to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex for users in the European Union, complying with transparency requirements under the EU AI Act. OpenAI published a technical...
UK Minister Calls for AI Safety Regulatory Regime
Report from the Financial Times In Brief – UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan has urged frontier AI companies not to release models they cannot adequately control, while calling for Britain to develop sovereign infrastructure that gives the state greater control over...
Google Reaches News Content Compensation Deal with UK Publisher
Report from Hold the Front Page In Brief – Google will pay UK publisher Reach for content used in its AI-powered search features under a new commercial partnership, making Reach the first major UK regional publisher to secure such an agreement. The deal grants Google...
President Macron Wants the DSA Used More to Control “Nonsense” Speech
Report from Digital Watch In Brief – In a speech at Madrid’s Complutense University on his recent state visit to Spain, French President Emmanuel Macron criticized the American conception of free speech, calling it “the opposite of free speech.” He argued that online...
Federal Appeals Court Panel Upholds Florida Teen Social Media Law
Report from the Orlando Sentinel In Brief – A unanimous three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel has ruled Florida’s law restricting minors’ social media accounts is likely constitutional and is allowing enforcement during remaining litigation. The...
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