Discussion of chip export controls was notably absent from the recent Trump-Xi summit, reflecting in part Beijing’s reduced urgency to secure relief from US curbs as China accelerates its push for technologica... (more story)

A ruling by the EU's top court in a case brought by Meta gives publishers stronger leverage to seek payment, data and regulator support when platforms use news content. For social media providers, it raises co... (more story)

This summer, for the first time, four social media companies were set to face a jury together over claims their intentionally addictive designs fueled a youth mental health crisis. Now, Meta Platforms will sta... (more story)

European regulators debating cookie rules should talk frankly about how they can be reformed to improve EU web users' lives rather than opting for technical tweaks that won’t help them, the chief privacy watch... (more story)

Online platforms are waiting for imminent EU guidance on the Digital Services Act's mechanism for expert notifications of illegal content; it's expected to include clarification on what organizations can be ce... (more story)

The scandal of X's Grok producing millions of sexualized deepfakes led to multiple probes early this year. None has concluded yet, though Brazil’s privacy regulator expects preliminary findings by June, while ... (more story)

Not so long ago, Raúl Torrez was a New Mexico county prosecutor, focused on putting murderers and members of drug cartels behind bars. Now the state's attorney general, Torrez is arguably one of the most promi... (more story)

The EU’s flagship AI Act was meant to be an example of the "Brussels effect," pioneering law that would inspire the word, but it ended up a target of the bloc’s simplification agenda to realize the goal of gre... (more story)