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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Apple's Appeal of Epic Games App Store Contempt Ruling
The justices granted certiorari limited to whether Apple's App Store fees violated the "spirit" of a 2021 injunction, setting up arguments in the term beginning October 2026.
EU General Court Upholds Apple's Gatekeeper Status, Dismisses Its Challenge to App Store and iOS Rules
The General Court in Luxembourg rejected all of Apple's challenges to its DMA gatekeeper designation, ruling its five App Stores count as one service.
Supreme Court Declines to Block Texas App Store Age-Verification Law, Leaving SB 2420 in Effect
The Supreme Court denied emergency requests from CCIA and a Texas student group to halt SB 2420, leaving the app age-verification law enforceable as the case heads to an August Fifth Circuit hearing.
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Trade Secret Theft, Citing More Than 400 Former Employees Now Working for the AI Lab
Apple filed suit in federal court accusing OpenAI's hardware chief and a former engineer of stealing trade secrets as part of a scheme it calls 'rotten to its core.'
Illinois Becomes First State to Mandate Annual AI Safety Audits, Defining Catastrophic Risk at $1 Billion or 50 Deaths
Gov. JB Pritzker signed SB 315, requiring frontier AI developers to undergo recurring third-party audits and report critical safety incidents within 72 hours.
UK Competition Watchdog Opens Antitrust Investigation Into Dassault Systèmes Over SolidWorks Software Supply
The CMA is investigating Dassault Systemes UK, Solid Solutions Management, and Visiativ Solutions over suspected anti-competitive conduct in SolidWorks software supply.
New York Becomes First US State to Ban Smart Glasses From All Courthouses
New York's Unified Court System will bar recording-capable eyewear from its 1,240-plus courts starting July 20, the first statewide blanket ban of its kind.
FTC Proposes Policy Statement Declaring State AI Laws Preempted Under Section 5, Singling Out Colorado's AI Act
The FTC voted 2-0 to open comment through July 31 on a proposed statement treating undisclosed ideological AI output-steering as deception and calling Colorado's AI Act impliedly preempted.
Paramount's $110 Billion Warner Bros. Discovery Deal Clears US Antitrust Review but Now Hinges on a July 22 EU Deadline and UK Scrutiny
The Justice Department cleared Paramount's $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery without conditions, over reported objections from career antitrust staff, leaving an EU remedy decision due July 22 and possible UK intervention as the deal's final hurdles.
Bipartisan 'Great American AI Act' Draft Would Put Frontier Developers Under Federal Audits and Freeze State AI Laws for Three Years
A 269-page bipartisan discussion draft from Reps. Obernolte and Trahan would place large frontier AI developers under semi-annual federal audits and preempt state AI-development laws for three years.
OpenAI Limits Its GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna Models to Trusted Partners at the US Government's Request
OpenAI began a limited preview of its GPT-5.6 models — Sol, Terra, and Luna — restricting access to a small group of government-approved partners at the request of the US government.
EU's Top Court Upholds Record €4.1 Billion Google Android Antitrust Fine, Rejecting Google's Final Appeal
Europe's Court of Justice dismissed Google and Alphabet's appeal on July 2, 2026, confirming a roughly €4.1 billion penalty over Android licensing practices and leaving no further right to appeal.