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Klarna Sues Google to Win Billions Over Shopping Site Discrimination

Report from Courthouse News In Brief – A Swedish court has begun hearing arguments in a lawsuit brought by Pricerunner, a shopping comparison site owned by Swedish fintech giant Klarna, against Google. The civil lawsuit is one of many being pursued by European...

EU Commission Finds Meta and TikTok in Violation of the DSA

Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The European Commission has issued a preliminary decision finding Meta’s Facebook and Instagram and TikTok all in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) for not allowing independent researchers to easily access data regarding content...

Judge Approves Refined Settlement in AI-Related Copyright Class Action

Report from AP News In Brief – Federal Judge William Alsup has granted preliminary approval to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement resolving an authors’ copyright class action lawsuit alleging that the company illegally downloaded pirated books. Judge Alsup...

California Enacts Major AI “Safety” Transparency Law

Report from the New York Times In Brief – California has enacted legislation imposing major new transparency requirements on AI developers. The “Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act” (TFAIA) requires developers of the largest AI models to meet the most...

Apple Urges the European Commission to Roll Back the DMA

Report from Bloomberg In Brief – Apple used the European Commission’s first consultation on the impact and effectiveness of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) to reiterate its long-held concerns with the legislation and urge the EU regulators to make changes. Apple wrote...

India May Tweak Retail FDI Rules to Allow Direct Export Sales

Report from Reuters In Brief – India is considering a change in its novel foreign direct investment (FDI) rules for ecommerce companies to allow foreign-owned companies to operate as retail exporters for products made by Indian suppliers. Indian law prohibits foreign...

Google Appeal of Epic Antitrust Loss Backed by App Developer Group

Report from MediaPost In Brief – With the US Supreme Court considering Google’s final appeal of its loss in the antitrust lawsuit brought by Epic Games, a trade group that represents small and mid-sized app developers urged the court to back Google’s appeal to...

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