Report from Engadget In Brief – The New York Times has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Perplexity, the self-styled Generative AI (GAI) “answer engine”. The media giant says that it sent the AI company several cease-and-desist demands to stop using its...

Report from CNBC In Brief – The European Commission has announced an antitrust investigation into whether Google unfairly uses the content of online publishers to provide AI answers to search queries without appropriate compensation to publishers, and without offering...

Report from Wall Street Journal In Brief – The European Commission has announced a tentative agreement with Meta to resolve the Digital Markets Act (DMA) investigation of Meta’s offer to provide ad-free subscription plans for Facebook and Instagram, which critics...

Report from Washington Post In Brief – After failed attempts to attach a federal moratorium on state AI regulation to “must pass” legislation, President Trump has issued an executive order that calls on government agencies to “check the most onerous and excessive”...

Report from Reuters In Brief – In the latest development in the five-year antitrust battle between Apple and Epic Games, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected key parts of District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’ order requiring Apple to...

Report from MediaPost In Brief – A three-judge panel of US 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a district court decision that had sided with NetChoice, a digital company trade group, and imposed a temporary injunction blocking enforcement of a Florida law...

Report from Financial Times In Brief – A group of over 1000 individuals, led Nobel laureates, policymakers, and celebrities, have signed a public statement calling for the development of AI “superintelligence” to be halted until there is “broad scientific consensus...

Report from Euronews In Brief – German opposition to the latest version of the EU child sexual abuse material (CSAM) message scanning bill, dubbed the Chat Control regulation, has led to it being pulled from the agenda of a meeting of EU justice ministers. The draft...

Report from Courthouse News In Brief – Austrian data privacy advocacy group Nyob (None of Your Business) announced that it filed a criminal complaint with Austrian authorities aiming to have executives of US-based facial recognition firm Clearview AI held personally...