AI regulation, antitrust, privacy law, and the rules shaping the tech industry.
104 articlesThe UK competition regulator has provisionally concluded that Nexfibre's £2 billion acquisition of Netomnia parent Substantial Group could substantially lessen wholesale fixed broadband competition.
Connecticut's Public Act 26-64 took effect on October 1, 2026, banning precise geolocation sales and adding pricing and AI hiring disclosures while data brokers fight its deletion right.
SB 947 requires employers to have a person independently verify AI-driven termination and discipline decisions, with enforcement by state and local officials starting in July 2027.
The US telecom regulator voted unanimously to open more than 1,000 MHz in the 12.7 GHz and 42 GHz bands, adding 525 MHz of downlink capacity for Starlink and other satellite broadband services.
Trump ordered federal agencies to replace the terms artificial intelligence and AI with Super Intelligence, hours after six technology chiefs signed a voluntary safety accord at the White House.
Google filed two appeals at the EU General Court on September 28, 2026 against DMA orders that would open 11 Android features to rival AI assistants and share anonymised search data.
Written requests sent on September 27 ask Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to appear in Canberra on October 1, after an OpenAI agent reached non-public Medicare files in June.
A Santa Fe jury found Meta misled New Mexico residents about privacy and misinformation, exposing the company to a theoretical maximum of more than 219 billion dollars in civil penalties.
The D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 on September 25, 2026 that the Pentagon may keep Anthropic's Claude models out of its systems, deepening a split with a California court.
The US Department of Justice has asked the EU's General Court to intervene in two cases brought by X and Elon Musk, escalating a transatlantic fight over a 120 million euro Digital Services Act penalty.
Executives from OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face told the 15-member Security Council that AI could escape human control, while Washington rejected centralized global governance.
The progressive lawmakers' proposal would permanently ban systems that exceed human cognitive ability and create a new federal agency to oversee advanced AI safety rules.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission ordered Google to fix its location data processing within six months and levied a EUR 403 million penalty after a long running GDPR inquiry.
The White House says the $100,000 H-1B payment requirement will run through September 2027, but a Massachusetts court ruling keeps the fee unenforceable for now.
A class-action lawsuit filed on September 18, 2026, alleges that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google illegally agreed to slow AI development, reducing the value of paid subscriptions.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-9-26 on September 18, 2026, ordering state agencies to recommend rules for a frontier AI kill switch verified by independent organizations.
Associate US Attorney General Stanley Woodward said at Fordham University that AI companies coordinating on cybersecurity and safety likely do not raise antitrust concerns, as the DOJ weighs updating its guidance.
A Virginia court has published a 106-page remedy order that reshapes how Google runs its advertising auctions and installs a monitor for six years, without forcing a sale of AdX.
The US House voted 417 to 3 to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act, a bipartisan bill requiring state regulators to consider making large AI data centers cover grid upgrade costs.
A Washington DC federal court dismissed a lawsuit by 4chan and Kiwi Farms against Ofcom for lack of jurisdiction, saying the forums can defend themselves in British courts.
Brussels plans to require parental approval before anyone under 15 can open accounts on social apps, video sites, chatbots or games, under a draft law due on September 17, 2026.