Policy & Regulation

Elsevier, Hachette, and three other major publishers filed a class action in New York alleging Meta torrented pirated books to train Llama, with Zuckerberg personally approving the strategy.

GLAAD's 2026 index scores six major platforms on LGBTQ+ safety: TikTok leads at 56, while X scores 29 and YouTube drops 11 points after removing gender identity from hate speech protections.

The FTC launched enforcement of the TAKE IT DOWN Act on May 19, sending warning letters to fifteen platforms — including Snapchat, TikTok, Meta, and X — that have not yet built compliant removal processes for nonconsensual intimate images and AI deepfakes.

Democratic senators led by Markey and Merkley warn a $7.5M DHS smart glasses proposal would let ICE agents covertly identify people in public using facial recognition.

A new national coalition of robotics and AI companies launched at the SCSP AI+ Expo, organized at the request of the White House and Congress to address the US manufacturing competitiveness gap.

The UN's first global cybercrime treaty has just one ratification seven months after its signing ceremony, as a January 2026 Vienna meeting collapsed over whether civil society gets any seat at the table.

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on April 30 demanding the Commission use every enforcement tool against DMA-violating gatekeepers, as US tariff threats and visa sanctions aimed at EU officials escalate the transatlantic tech regulation conflict.

Meta filed a judicial review challenging Ofcom's use of qualifying worldwide revenue to set fees and penalties under the UK's Online Safety Act, with a full hearing scheduled for October.

The FTC settled its 2022 lawsuit against Kochava and subsidiary Collective Data Solutions, barring the companies from selling precise location data without affirmative express consent in the most significant U.S. enforcement action against a location data broker.

A coming White House executive order would require AI labs to share frontier models with the government 90 days before public release, but infighting between economic and national security factions has delayed the response to Anthropic's Mythos.

Oral arguments in Chatrie v. United States expose a fractured bench as the court weighs whether mass location sweeps violate constitutional search protections.

FCC bureaus approved the transfer of 65 MHz to SpaceX for $17 billion and 50 MHz to AT&T for $23 billion on May 12, conditioning the deals on a $2.4 billion escrow account for tower-company claims.