Policy & Regulation

Juries in Los Angeles and New Mexico found Meta and Google liable for addictive platform design and child safety failures, awarding $381 million and setting a legal precedent for thousands of pending cases.

At least nine bills across six states have been introduced in 2026 to regulate the collection of brain and nervous system data, as consumer neurotechnology devices proliferate and the federal MIND Act awaits action in Congress.

The EU Council and Parliament endorsed amendments delaying high-risk AI system deadlines by up to 16 months and banning nonconsensual deepfake imagery, as Amnesty International warns of a rights rollback.

Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after Clearview AI flagged her for bank fraud in a state she had never visited, even as Tennessee Highway Patrol considers a million-dollar contract with the same company.

A proposed ban on stablecoin yield payments has triggered a lobbying war between banks and crypto exchanges, with billions in deposits and a new financial architecture at stake.

The Army consolidates 120 Anduril procurement actions into one decade-long framework, with an $87 million counter-UAS task order as the first draw.

The CMA will begin a Strategic Market Status investigation in May, examining whether Microsoft's licensing practices disadvantage rival cloud providers and whether AI integration into productivity tools could entrench dominance.

California, New York, and Connecticut have enacted laws restricting algorithmic rent-setting tools, while the DOJ's landmark settlement with RealPage forces the industry to abandon real-time competitor data sharing.

Judge Brinkema's ad tech remedy decision is expected any day, while the DOJ appeals Judge Mehta's search ruling and the EU enforces its own fine

A New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million for enabling child exploitation, and a California bellwether jury found both Meta and YouTube negligent in designing addictive platforms that harmed a minor.

The CMA proposed its first conduct requirements under the UK's new digital markets law, targeting Google's AI Overviews, search ranking, and choice screens, while securing app store commitments from Apple and Google effective April 1.

Internal documents reveal DHS has deployed over 200 AI use cases across immigration enforcement while privacy assessments have dropped to zero in 2026, alarming civil liberties groups and a federal judge who found ICE violated 96 court orders in one month.