Technology

The EU’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act could have its tech sovereignty requirements eased during legislative scrutiny, a lead EU lawmaker on the file, Diego Solier, told MLex in an interview. Lawmakers... (more story)

European publishers won a victory when EU governments dropped plans for browser-level cookie-consent preferences in a legislative update designed to simplify the bloc's digital rules. But media groups still fa... (more story)

President Donald Trump's argument that EU technology enforcement amounts to taxing successful US companies has become harder to sustain following Meta Platform’s multibillion-dollar legal setbacks at home. Bru... (more story)

France is passing a new law to give communications regulator Arcom powers to settle neighboring-rights payment disputes between news publishers and online services. This would offer an alternative to competit... (more story)

With a first bellwether trial over how social media design affected US schools just over three months away, two school districts in Arizona and South Carolina are trying to exclude evidence of racial conflict,... (more story)

A raft of legal challenges from Meta Platforms, TikTok, X and other digital companies to UK regulator Ofcom’s information demands, revenue rules and service categorization is threatening to reshape the country... (more story)

Mark Zuckerberg's stated reluctance to settle lawsuits before US jury trials over privacy and addictive design in recent years has exposed Meta Platforms to potentially more than $50 billion in verdicts, penal... (more story)

The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating Roblox over potential child safety concerns that the Silicon Valley gaming company, hugely popular with children and teens, allowed its platform to be designed ... (more story)