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OpenAI Removes Political Bias Landmine from AI Policy Document

Report from TechCrunch In Brief – OpenAI quietly edited its “Economic Blueprint” soon after release to remove language in the section on “the proper rules” for AI that called for AI models to be “politically unbiased by default”. The report is part of a public policy...

Supreme Court Justices Sound Amenable to Age Checks for Online Porn

Report from the New York Times In Brief – Several members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appear willing to overturn a 2004 decision that prohibited requiring online pornography sites to use age verification techniques to keep underage users off their...

Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Law

Report from Platform Economy Insights In Brief – The US Supreme Court decisively ruled against the First Amendment challenges of TikTok and a group of content creators against the federal law that requires the business to be sold by China-based ByteDance to a new...

EU Commission Expands X Investigation to Include Recommender Systems

Report from Euronews In Brief – As expected, the European Commission has announced the expansion of its ongoing investigation of X under the Digital Services Act (DSA) to include reviewing the operations of its recommender systems, including the algorithms that...

European Commission Reviewing Ongoing Big Tech Investigations (or Not)

Report from the Financial Times In Brief – The European Commission is reported to be undertaking an internal review of all the investigations of major US tech companies begun during the past year, including under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulating the largest...

Digital Giants Agree to Updated EU Hate Speech Code of Conduct

Report from The Verge In Brief – The European Commission announced that the Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech Online + has been formally integrated into the Digital Services Act (DSA). The updated code builds upon the initial EU Code of Conduct created...

President Trump Fully Revokes President Biden’s Executive Order on AI

Report from Bloomberg In Brief – President Donald Trump revoked President Biden’s Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence as one of the 78 Biden Administration executive orders and memorandums included in his Inauguration Day Executive Order fully rescinding...

UK Government Replaces Antitrust Chief with Former Amazon Executive

Report from the BBC In Brief – UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Government has forced out Marcus Bokkerink as the chair of its antitrust regulator for failing to prioritize the government’s economic growth agenda. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves said she...

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