Report from Reuters In Brief – Germany’s media regulator has declared that AI-generated search summaries and chatbot responses produced by services such as Google’s AI Overviews and Perplexity AI fall under Germany’s media laws. The Commission for Licensing and...

Report from MediaPost In Brief – The European Commission has announced the approval of X’s plan to address several Digital Services Act (DSA) compliance shortcomings identified by the regulator. The decision follows the €120 million fine imposed on the social media...

Report from Reuters In Brief – TikTok faces fresh allegations from the European Commission that its platform design violates the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) by failing to adequately protect minors. The preliminary findings mark the fourth DSA case opened against...

Report from NJ.Com In Brief – New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) has signed the Fair Price Protection Act, banning grocery stores and third-party grocery delivery platforms from using consumers' personal data to set or vary food prices. Sherrill said the measure will...

Report from the New York Times In Brief – France has become the first European country to fully approve a nationwide ban on social media for children under 15, with the law expected to take effect as early as Sept. 1. Passed by large majorities in both houses of the...

Report from Reuters In Brief – The European Commission has fined Google €890 million ($1 billion) under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for unfairly treating “vertical search” competitors and not appropriately allowing app developers to steer users to cheaper payment...

Report from Engadet In Brief – Federal District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin has approved Anthropic’s record $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright lawsuit brought by authors who accused the company of violating their copyrights to train its Claude AI models. The...

Report from CNBC In Brief – The European Commission has directed Google on how to open its Android system to AI rivals and share its search data with online search competitors. The orders are part of two Digital Markets Act (DMA) “specification proceedings” in which...

Report from the New York Times In Brief – In a short public statement titled "We Must Act Now", nearly 200 signatories, led by economists, including 15 Nobel laureates, numerous officials from top universities, business and technology leaders, warned that AI could...