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AI agents need close antitrust attention, EU's chief competition economist says September 18, 2025 | Jean Comte, Lewis Crofts and Luca Bertuzzi

The risk of AI agents colluding on their own initiative requires "serious reflections" from antitrust enforcers, the European Commission's chief competition economist has cautioned. Emanuele Tarantino's commen... (more story)

China moves to enforce AI-content labeling rules, urges wider adoption September 18, 2025 | MLex Staff

China’s cyberspace regulator is set to enforce artificial intelligence content labeling rules with potential penalties for noncompliance, a senior internet official said while unveiling measures to broaden ado... (more story)

Children nearly half of deepfake sex-crime victims, South Korean regulator warns September 18, 2025 | Jenny Lee

South Korea’s privacy regulator revealed that children and teens now make up 46 percent of the country’s deepfake sex-crime victims, highlighting how AI is driving unprecedented threats to youth safety. The Pe... (more story)

China calls for independence in AI chips, frameworks amid US curbs September 18, 2025 | MLex Staff

China should reduce reliance on imports of high-performance chips and core frameworks and build an independent industrial ecosystem, a senior Internet official said. Wang Lihong, the deputy head of the Cyberse... (more story)

Anthropic insists Reddit's data-scraping case belongs in US federal court September 17, 2025 | Amy Miller

Anthropic says a data-scraping lawsuit filed by Reddit belongs in federal court because the claims implicate US copyright law, which means they’re also preempted. But Reddit disagrees and argues that preemptio... (more story)

Anthropic urges US Congress to impose AI transparency rules, industry tax September 17, 2025 | Emma Whitford

The co-founders of Anthropic are making their policy priorities known in the shadow of Capitol Hill, urging the US Congress Wednesday to impose regulations on their industry like transparency rules and a possi... (more story)

Tech industry engaged as US FTC is set to enforce Take It Down Act, official says September 17, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

The tech industry and advocates are very engaged to help the US Federal Trade Commission enforce the Take It Down Act, which requires websites to take down nonconsensual sexual images, Kate White, deputy direc... (more story)

AI is least critical technology for business operations, UK study says September 17, 2025 | Frank Hersey

Artificial intelligence is the technology considered least critical to business operations once adopted, according to respondents to a groundbreaking UK government study on technology adoption. It has one of t... (more story)

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The politics behind Australian retailers' flirtation with biometric-data September 18, 2025 | James Panichi and Saloni Sinha

Kmart’s trial of facial-recognition technology has hit a regulatory snag, with Australia’s privacy watchdog ruling this week that the discount retailer had broken the law when it collected and stored the biome... (more story)

US FTC consumer protection chief Mufarrige to focus on 'kitchen-table' issues September 17, 2025 | Mike Swift and Madeline Hughes

In a wide-ranging conversation with MLex, the US Federal Trade Commission's new consumer protection chief, Chris Mufarriage, discusses how the agency’s probe of AI chatbots and a flurry of recent privacy and o... (more story)

TikTok's licensing plan shows app's role as bargaining chip in US-China trade talks September 17, 2025 | MLex Staff

ByteDance may grant TikTok’s US operator a 10-year license to its recommendation algorithm, MLex has learned, as part of a framework to resolve the dispute over the app’s American operations. The proposal, alo... (more story)

South Korea's draft AI law decree fails to quell doubts, concerns September 16, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo

South Korea’s draft enforcement decree for its new AI law aims to plug legislative gaps but leaves key definitions vague. The decree, published by the Ministry of Science and ICT last week, offers a grace peri... (more story)

California governor facing balancing act as AI bills head to his desk September 13, 2025 | Amy Miller

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a balancing act as more than a dozen bills aimed at regulating artificial intelligence tools in a wide range of settings head to his desk for approval. He could approve b... (more story)

Pending Anthropic settlement shows relevance of data sources in AI training risk September 11, 2025 | Emma Whitford

A potential $1.5 billion deal in California federal court between book authors and Anthropic shows that the manner in which a company procures copyrighted content has the potential to make or break its defense... (more story)

South Korean government restructuring promises reform but risks overreach September 10, 2025 | Jenny Lee

Just four months after taking office, the Lee Jae Myung administration has unveiled a sweeping plan to remake South Korea’s bureaucracy, setting the stage for one of the most consequential reorganizations in d... (more story)

What next for UK tech, online safety and AI regulation under a new minister? September 08, 2025 | Frank Hersey and Patricia Figueiredo

The outlook for UK tech businesses and those considering investment has added uncertainty after a major government reshuffle late last week. Tech minister Peter Kyle is now business and trade minister and alre... (more story)