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AGCOM fined Google €750,000 over gambling videos on YouTube

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The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in a case that turns on a deceptively small question: whether a platform that shares advertising revenue with a creator is still merely hosting what that creator uploads. The dispute began on 19 July 2022, when AGCOM, Italy’s communications authority, fined Google Ireland €750,000 and ordered it […]

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xAI’s first lawsuit against a user tests who is responsible for what Grok makes

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The company says the defendant engineered prompts to defeat Grok’s safeguards. Courts on three continents are being asked whether the safeguards were ever the point. AI has sued one of its own users, alleging he used Grok to generate child sexual abuse material in breach of the company’s terms of service. It is understood to […]

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Ofcom opens a child safety investigation into TikTok

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Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into whether TikTok is failing to protect children from harmful content, escalating a dispute that has been running in public since May. The probe, announced on Thursday, examines two things under the Online Safety Act: whether TikTok has adequate measures to work out that a given user is a […]

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Apple wins dismissal of iCloud child abuse imagery lawsuit on Section 230 grounds

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US federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Apple of failing to stop images of child sexual abuse from being stored and shared through iCloud, finding that the claims sit inside the liability shield of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Judge Noël Wise issued the order late on Monday. The dismissal […]

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Switzerland opens a competition probe into Google’s vanishing Android choice screen

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Switzerland’s Competition Commission opened a preliminary investigation into Google on Tuesday, after the search engine selection prompt that Android owners elsewhere in Europe still meet when they switch on a new handset quietly stopped appearing on Swiss phones. The feature, known as the Choice Screen, asks users which search engine they want as their default […]

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OpenAI wants its legal fees from xAI, while Apple comes for OpenAI

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On Monday, OpenAI asked a federal judge in California to rule that xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit against it “should never have been filed,” and to make Elon Musk’s company cover more than $1m in legal expenses. The filing landed hours after xAI gave notice that it intends to appeal. The case has been dismissed twice; […]

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SAP averts an EU antitrust fine by opening up its support market

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SAP has talked its way out of an EU antitrust fine. The European Commission said it would accept a set of commitments from the German software group, closing an investigation into how SAP handles maintenance and support for its on-premise enterprise software and sparing it a penalty that could have run into the billions. It […]

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Jack Dorsey’s Block settles Cash App fraud claims with 46 states for $45m

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Block, the payments company chaired by Jack Dorsey, has agreed to pay $45 million to settle claims from 46 US states that it mishandled fraud on Cash App, its money-transfer and digital-banking app. The settlement is the latest sign that state regulators are moving into ground the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has vacated under the Trump […]

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Judge approves Musk’s $1.5m SEC Twitter settlement despite ‘red flags’

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A federal judge has approved the Securities and Exchange Commission’s settlement with Elon Musk over his late disclosure of a Twitter stake, closing a case that has run for years. US District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan entered the consent judgment on Wednesday in Washington, DC, despite what she described as significant misgivings about the deal. […]

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Apple loses its EU court challenge over gatekeeper status under the DMA

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Apple has spent two years arguing that Europe’s digital rulebook should not apply to it in quite the way Brussels insists. On Wednesday, the EU’s General Court told it, in effect, that it does. The court threw out Apple’s challenge to being labelled a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act, the designation that ties the […]

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