Report from Bloomberg In Brief – US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent singled out national Digital Services Taxes (DSTs) imposed by some EU member states on the largest digital companies, who are most often US-based, as something the Trump Administration wants to...

Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – Federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers hammered Apple for violating her 2021 unfair competition ruling related to App Store restrictions, issued an order prohibiting Apple from charging any fees on any in-app sales made by...

Report from the New York Times In Brief – The TAKE IT DOWN Act, bipartisan legislation criminalizing the posting online of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) and forcing platforms to quickly take it down has been overwhelmingly passed by the US Congress and sent to...

Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The US Government is calling on the European Commission to delay the release of the AI Code of Practice for “General Purpose” AI that is scheduled to be finalized in May to help provide guidance to developers of the largest and most...

Report from the TechCrunch In Brief – The US Department of Justice has informed the federal judge that recently ruled that Google was guilty of “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in the digital ad space that it would ask that Google be forced to sell...

Report from the Toronto Star In Brief – The Canadian Journalism Collective, an organization that is distributing some of the funds contributed by Google to pay Canadian news media outlets in exchange for Google being exempted from the media payments scheme created by...

Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – Robby Starbuck, a conservative activist notable for successfully pressuring companies to change their DEI practices, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Meta alleging that its AI tool smeared him by falsely asserting...

Report from the Nelson Star In Brief – Legislation that aims to force the largest digital platform companies, especially Google and Meta, to pay Oregon media companies when the content they create appears in search results or on the companies’ social media platforms,...

Report from the BBC In Brief – Apple has petitioned the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to block a court order from District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers requiring it to permit all app developers to direct users to external websites for in-app purchases without...