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Meta Takes Ofcom to the High Court Over How the UK Calculates Online Safety Act Bills
Meta filed a judicial review challenging Ofcom's use of qualifying worldwide revenue to set fees and penalties under the UK's Online Safety Act, with a full hearing scheduled for October.
FTC Bans Data Broker Kochava From Selling Sensitive Location Data Without Consent, Closing a Four-Year Case
The FTC settled its 2022 lawsuit against Kochava and subsidiary Collective Data Solutions, barring the companies from selling precise location data without affirmative express consent in the most significant U.S. enforcement action against a location data broker.
Trump White House Prepares Frontier AI Executive Order as Internal Divisions Slow Response to Mythos Security Threat
A coming White House executive order would require AI labs to share frontier models with the government 90 days before public release, but infighting between economic and national security factions has delayed the response to Anthropic's Mythos.
Supreme Court Hears First Challenge to Geofence Warrants as Justices Split Over Fourth Amendment Line
Oral arguments in Chatrie v. United States expose a fractured bench as the court weighs whether mass location sweeps violate constitutional search protections.
FCC Clears EchoStar's $40 Billion Spectrum Sale to SpaceX and AT&T With a Contested $2.4 Billion Tower-Industry Escrow
FCC bureaus approved the transfer of 65 MHz to SpaceX for $17 billion and 50 MHz to AT&T for $23 billion on May 12, conditioning the deals on a $2.4 billion escrow account for tower-company claims.
US Clears Nvidia H200 Sales to Ten Chinese Firms With 25% Revenue Cut, But Beijing Tells Buyers to Stand Down
Washington has licensed Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, JD.com and distributors Lenovo and Foxconn to buy up to 75,000 H200s each. Not one chip has shipped — Beijing is pushing buyers toward Huawei.
Colorado Governor Polis Signs SB 26-189, Repealing and Replacing the 2024 Colorado AI Act With a Narrower Disclosure Regime
Polis signed SB 26-189 on May 14, repealing the duty of care, impact assessments, and risk management mandates of SB 24-205 in favor of an ADMT notice-and-explain regime taking effect January 1, 2027.
FDA Opens Docket FDA-2026-N-4492 Soliciting Drug Repurposing Candidates for Metabolic, Neurodegenerative and Rare Diseases
The agency is asking patients, clinicians and researchers to nominate FDA-approved drugs that could be relabeled for new indications, including those backed by case reports or AI-generated preclinical evidence.
EU Commission Declares DMA Fit for Purpose in First Statutory Review and Pivots Enforcement Toward AI and Cloud
Brussels' first review of the Digital Markets Act concludes the law needs no overhaul, declines to designate generative AI as a new core platform service, and shifts focus toward cloud gatekeeper probes and a Google Android AI specification.
CAISI Signs Frontier AI Testing Agreements With Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI, Extending Pre-Deployment Reviews Beyond Anthropic and OpenAI
The Commerce Department's AI standards center will evaluate the three labs' frontier models in classified environments before public release, expanding a program that began with Anthropic and OpenAI in 2024.
Minnesota Senate Passes HF 1606 65-0, Sending Civil Ban on AI 'Nudification' Apps to Gov. Tim Walz
Minnesota's HF 1606 cleared the state Senate 65-0 after a 132-1 House vote, sending an AI 'nudification' app ban to Gov. Tim Walz with $500,000 civil penalties and a private right of action.
Target Rewrites Its Terms So Customers Eat the Cost When the Gemini Shopping Agent Buys the Wrong Thing
Target updated its consumer terms to treat any purchase placed by an Agentic Commerce Agent as a transaction "authorized by you," shifting AI mistake liability to shoppers ahead of its Gemini-powered checkout launch.