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US DOJ Antitrust Division’s top enforcers barred from public events
Political appointees at the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division are being barred from speaking at public events by the agency’s leadership, MLex has learn... (more story)
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Trump imposes tariffs on semiconductor chips, takes action on critical minerals
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed proclamations imposing tariffs on semiconductor chips and taking separate trade action on critical minerals — moves that ... (more story)
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White House drops plan to nominate Baasch to US Federal Trade Commission
The White House no longer plans to nominate Ryan Baasch to be a member of the Federal Trade Commission, as he will be promoted to a role as deputy director of the N... (more story)
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UK lawmakers are set to debate this week proposals that could impose an Australia-style ban on social media use for under-16s, as scrutiny over online harms intensifies following the Grok controversy. More tha... (more story)
Energy-intensive industries, clean tech, advanced technology companies and the automotive sector are set to face tighter EU content requirements and stricter foreign investment controls under the Industrial Ac... (more story)
Google asked a US federal court Friday to stay certain provisions of the final judgment in a government lawsuit over its internet search monopoly pending an appeal of the court’s liability and remedies rulings... (more story)
Lawmakers from the political group of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are seeking to place the country among jurisdictions worldwide that are taking action against X’s Grok AI chatbot.
Green lawmaker Sergey Lagodinsky criticized the European Commission for failing to act decisively against X’s AI chatbot Grok after it was used to generate non-consensual sexual images. He urged temporary susp... (more story)
The European Commission plans to expand EU cybersecurity certification schemes to cover companies’ overall risk-management posture, under a revised Cybersecurity Act due on Jan. 20. Draft rules would use certi... (more story)
Adding to the global fallout from provocative deepfakes created with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence service Grok, Japan issued its sternest warning yet, threatening “all possible measures” against his company X.
Online recruitment platforms in China have been ordered to tighten oversight of job postings and strengthen content controls, underscoring Beijing’s push to protect job seekers as fraud risks rise amid a slowi... (more story)
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The UK's response to the outcry over the use of X's Grok artificial intelligence chatbot to create sexualized images of people without their permission has been focused on strengthening online safety laws and ... (more story)
The outcry over the use of X’s Grok chatbot to create sexualized deepfakes has provided a global stress-test of online safety laws and highlighted how national legal frameworks are shaping different approaches... (more story)
The pressure is on for a quick turnaround from UK regulator Ofcom in its investigation into non-consensual images on X. But the Online Safety Act’s emphasis on risk assessments — paired with its own lack of tr... (more story)
Elon Musk’s platform X has moved to restrict Grok's image generation and editing tools to paying users following weeks of regulatory and political backlash over the creation of intimate deepfakes. The change h... (more story)
French booksellers, European banks and accountants are among those urging the European Commission to clamp down on US tech gatekeepers, voicing concerns about a continued stranglehold on some markets. Response... (more story)
Character.AI and Google chose a different path than social media companies when facing a wave of lawsuits alleging their chatbots contribute to suicides and mental health issues for children and teenagers — th... (more story)
The boom in AI and the platform economy is posing challenges to Europe’s legal order and will raise questions over the approach to copyright, contracts and transparency, according to Maciej Szpunar, one of the... (more story)
Europe’s big phone companies — such as Telefónica, Orange and Deutsche Telekom — are unlikely to see a major overhaul of the EU's telecom rules this year. But the European Commission's planned Digital Networks... (more story)