Policy & Regulation

France's Autorité de la concurrence found Meta likely abused its dominant position and ordered it to negotiate in good faith with press publishers over unpaid neighbouring rights.

Brussels says Meta failed to assess addiction risks from infinite scroll, autoplay and recommender systems on Instagram and Facebook, exposing the company to a fine of up to 6% of global turnover.

Meta is rolling out a mandatory update that disables its smart glasses' camera if the privacy LED is tampered with, even as it reportedly tests always-on glasses that would skip the light entirely.

The justices granted certiorari limited to whether Apple's App Store fees violated the "spirit" of a 2021 injunction, setting up arguments in the term beginning October 2026.

The General Court in Luxembourg rejected all of Apple's challenges to its DMA gatekeeper designation, ruling its five App Stores count as one service.

The Supreme Court denied emergency requests from CCIA and a Texas student group to halt SB 2420, leaving the app age-verification law enforceable as the case heads to an August Fifth Circuit hearing.

Apple filed suit in federal court accusing OpenAI's hardware chief and a former engineer of stealing trade secrets as part of a scheme it calls 'rotten to its core.'

Gov. JB Pritzker signed SB 315, requiring frontier AI developers to undergo recurring third-party audits and report critical safety incidents within 72 hours.

The CMA is investigating Dassault Systemes UK, Solid Solutions Management, and Visiativ Solutions over suspected anti-competitive conduct in SolidWorks software supply.

New York's Unified Court System will bar recording-capable eyewear from its 1,240-plus courts starting July 20, the first statewide blanket ban of its kind.

The FTC voted 2-0 to open comment through July 31 on a proposed statement treating undisclosed ideological AI output-steering as deception and calling Colorado's AI Act impliedly preempted.

The Justice Department cleared Paramount's $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery without conditions, over reported objections from career antitrust staff, leaving an EU remedy decision due July 22 and possible UK intervention as the deal's final hurdles.