Report from the Japan Times
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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