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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...

FTC Considering Rules Requiring Platforms to Deal with Fake Ads

Report from MediaPost In Brief – The Federal Trade Commission has issued an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking seeking public comment on the agency possibly issuing regulations that could require online platforms to take steps to combat fraudulent ads. The FTC...

Google Challenges EU Orders to Share Search Data and Open Android to AI

Report from Reuters In Brief – Google has challenged two European Commission orders requiring it to open parts of its services to competitors, arguing that the measures would undermine privacy and security protections for European users. The orders issued in July are...

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