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TikTok gave young users a placebo safety tool, New York lawsuit alleges

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According to a new unsealed filing in New York’s lawsuit, TikTok gave thousands of users, including teenagers and children, a safety tool that did not work. Reuters reported the allegations on October 7, after a judge ordered the filings unsealed. They appear in an amended complaint that New York Attorney General Letitia James filed under seal at […]

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Italy opens investigation into AI music company Suno over its terms

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Italy’s competition authority, the AGCM, has opened an investigation into Suno, the US company whose AI service turns text prompts into songs.The authority said today that parts of Suno’s terms of service may be unfair to consumers under Italian law. The case is based on Article 33 of Italy’s Consumer Code, and according to this article, […]

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Ofcom opens investigation into Meta over Instagram Instants risk checks

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Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into Meta over Instagram’s Instants feature, the UK regulator said on Tuesday. It will check whether Meta broke the Online Safety Act by failing to assess the feature’s risks before launch. Meta launched Instants in May. The feature lets Instagram users share posts that vanish after they’re seen. Ofcom will […]

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San Diego sues AppLovin over explicit ads on kids’ devices, Bloomberg reports

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San Diego County has sued AppLovin, a mobile advertising technology company. The county alleges that AppLovin bypassed parental controls to serve ads for adult dating services, alcohol, vaping and graphic sexual content in games played by children. The complaint was filed with San Diego Superior Court on Monday, Bloomberg reported. According to the complaint, AppLovin […]

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Meta, TikTok and X challenge Ofcom over online safety data, Reuters reports

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Meta, TikTok and X are challenging Ofcom in court over its data demands under the UK’s Online Safety Act, Reuters reported on Monday. The challenge is one of the first brought under the 2023 law. In February, Ofcom sent the companies information notices, according to Paul Sandle’s report for Reuters. The notices asked for detailed […]

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McDonald’s uses AI to set an optimal price at each store, Reuters reports

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McDonald’s is using an AI pricing engine to recommend what each of its nearly 14,000 restaurants should charge for every menu item, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The engine covers the US and some markets abroad. One factor the engine weighs is an estimate of how much each store’s customers are willing to pay. Waylon Cunningham […]

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Tokyo court rules the human voice is protected, in a TikTok AI clone case

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A Tokyo court ruled on Wednesday that Japanese law protects the human voice. Anime voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda had sued TikTok over videos he says used an AI clone of his voice. He won in part, as the court turned down his request to remove the videos, Agence France-Presse reported. AFP believes the lawsuit is […]

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OpenAI is sued over the rogue agents that hacked Hugging Face

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OpenAI has been sued over the AI agents that hacked Hugging Face in July. The New York non-profit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) filed the complaint in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday. LASST asks the court to bar OpenAI from accessing computer systems without authorisation. The ban would cover the AI […]

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Complaint accuses EU of hiding data centres’ energy and water use

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Lighthouse Reports, a Dutch non-profit newsroom, lodged a complaint this week, saying the European Commission keeps the public from seeing how much power and water each data center uses. They classified it under the Aarhus Convention, a binding treaty that grants people the right to access environmental information and to participate in environmental decision-making; the […]

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Google takes EU to court over orders to share search data with AI rivals

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Google has gone to court to challenge two EU orders that would require it to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data with other search engines, Reuters reported. It filed both cases at the EU General Court in Luxembourg on Monday. In July, the European Commission issued orders under the Digital Markets […]

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