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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...

The Federal Trade Commission is Investigating Anthropic and OpenAI

Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – Federal Trade Commission officials have said that the agency is investigating Anthropic and OpenAI over whether they have deceived consumers about potential harms from AI. The effort has reportedly been underway for weeks...

Polish Antitrust Regulator Presses Google on Media Payments

Report from Digital Watch In Brief – Poland’s competition regulator has opened an investigation of Google that accuses the search giant of abusing its market dominance in negotiations with news publishers over payments for the use of media article snippets in results...

White House SI Force Orders AI Companies to Quickly Report Incidents

Report from Silicon Valley In Brief – The White House, through its recently established Super Intelligence (SI) Force, has demanded “full transparency” and “immediate remediation” after Anthropic disclosed that its AI agents submitted false information to the...

California Enacts Law Regulating AI Use by Employers

Report from CNBC In Brief – California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has signed SB 947, the No Robo Bosses Act, making California the first state to prohibit employers from relying solely on artificial intelligence to discipline or fire workers. Employers that heavily use...

California Enacts Law Setting AI Standards for Legal Practice

Report from Bloomberg In Brief – In response to concerns nationwide over AI-generated legal filings containing hallucinated or misinterpreted case citations, California has enacted first-in-the-nation legislation regulating how attorneys use generative artificial...

Google to Face Federal Defamation Lawsuit Over AI Overviews

Report from the East Bay Times In Brief – A Federal District Judge in Illinois has partly rejected Google’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit by James Keene, a writer, TV producer and former FBI operative, alleging that Google’s AI Overviews defamed him by providing false...

4Chan’s Lawsuit Against UK Ofcom Dismissed in US Court

Report from Law Commentary In Brief – Federal Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington, DC, has dismissed a lawsuit brought by internet platform companies 4chan and Kiwi Farms against Britain’s media regulator Ofcom, determining that the foreign government agency was...

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