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JFTC to scrutinize generative AI firms in survey on news-content distribution December 24, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki

The Japanese competition regulator is launching a new market survey on generative artificial intelligence companies to examine their role in the news-content distribution market. Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Per... (more story)

WhatsApp ordered to suspend policy on AI chatbots in Italy December 24, 2025 | Anna Ferrari, Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts

Meta Platforms' move to exclude AI chatbots from WhatsApp has been suspended by the Italian competition authority pending a full antitrust probe. The AGCM said that a policy set to come into force next month r... (more story)

South Korea sticks with draft AI-law decree, pledges flexible management December 24, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo

South Korea said it will finalize the enforcement decree for its landmark AI Basic Act largely as drafted and bring it into force on Jan. 22, 2026, alongside the main law. The Ministry of Science and ICT rejec... (more story)

Japan approves AI plan to boost global role in AI development December 23, 2025 | Jeyup S Kwaak

Tokyo on Tuesday approved a plan to become “the world’s best country to develop AI,” underscoring its ambition to derive greater benefit from—and play a larger role in shaping—the ongoing technological revolution.

FTC invokes Trump AI plan in first revocation of prior AI settlement December 22, 2025 | Madeline Hughes and Mike Swift

In the first example of the US Federal Trade Commissioner using the Trump AI Action Plan to reverse earlier enforcement orders around artificial intelligence, the FTC has revoked a settlement from last year al... (more story)

NY governor signs AI transparency law revised toward Calif. standard December 22, 2025 | Emma Whitford

New York has become the second US state to pass a broad transparency law requiring large artificial intelligence companies to test their models and report safety incidents, after Governor Kathy Hochul amended ... (more story)

Laion AI image scraping row escalates as photographer appeals to top German court December 22, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

AI dataset provider Laion is set to see an appeal by a German photographer against a court ruling that found the company, when scraping an image of his for AI training data, could rely on research exceptions a... (more story)

US judge may pause Meta torrenting case in effort to speed fair use analysis December 19, 2025 | Emma Whitford

A proposed class of authors suing Meta Platforms for allegedly distributing pirated books could see their case paused in early 2026, a federal judge in California warned Friday. Meanwhile, the judge is eager t... (more story)

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AI licensing deals mark new legal risk for tech companies left out December 17, 2025 | Nick Robertson, Emma Whitford

As more media giants partner with AI companies to license their content, tech firms left on the outside face mounting legal risk that will only grow with the burgeoning licensing market. After OpenAI and the W... (more story)

Latest Meta probes involve novel AI tech but familiar antitrust claims December 15, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

Meta Platforms must explain to enforcers why it opened up WhatsApp to companies large and small a few years ago, only to now expel other companies' AI chatbots that compete with its own Meta AI service. Regula... (more story)

Trump order against US state AI laws leaves opening for pushback December 12, 2025 | Emma Whitford

Because US President Donald Trump does not have the authority to preempt state laws outright, his new executive order seeking to prevent a national patchwork of artificial intelligence regulations leaves an op... (more story)

Ross, Westlaw appeal tackles both longstanding US precedent, novel AI December 12, 2025 | Emma Whitford and Melissa Ritti

There is no shortage of interest in an ongoing clash between Ross Intelligence and Thomson Reuters in what could yield the first US appellate ruling on whether the use of copyrighted materials to train an arti... (more story)

US state lawmakers try to tackle rising costs of data center building boom December 12, 2025 | Amy Miller

President Donald Trump's latest executive order attempting to block states from regulating artificial intelligence has a key carveout: data centers. That’s good news for state legislators across the country wh... (more story)

OpenAI appeal of German copyright ruling looks to focus on 'memorization' December 12, 2025 | Inbar Preiss and Frank Hersey

OpenAI’s decision to appeal a German court ruling in favor of music rights group GEMA may set a new precedent on whether “memorization” inside large language models counts as reproduction. In its early indicat... (more story)

As Tong takes leadership of attorneys general, states confront tech on AI, platform addiction December 11, 2025 | Mike Swift

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, who this week began his one-year term as president of the National Association of Attorneys General, sees approaching trials in lawsuits by state attorneys general ag... (more story)

China to weigh AI gains with self-reliance, security in Nvidia H200 access decision December 11, 2025 | MLex Staff

As Washington moves to ease restrictions on Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to China, Beijing is likely to respond with a calibrated two-track approach that might allow Chinese companies to buy the powerful chips under... (more story)