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EU Charges Meta Under Digital Services Act for Failing to Block Under-13 Users From Instagram and Facebook
The European Commission issued preliminary findings on April 29 that Meta violated the DSA by allowing children under 13 to create accounts using false birth dates, with potential fines reaching 6% of its global turnover.
GLAAD's Sixth Annual Social Media Safety Index Finds Historic Low Scores as Meta, X, and YouTube Roll Back LGBTQ+ Protections
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.
Robots for America Launches Industry Coalition to Advance US Robotics Deployment Policy
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.
UN Cybercrime Convention Stalls at One Ratification as Implementation Deadlock Deepens
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.
European Parliament Demands Faster DMA Enforcement as US Tariff Pressure Intensifies and MEPs Warn Against Foreign Interference
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 Takes Ofcom to the High Court Over How the UK Calculates Online Safety Act Bills
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.
US Clears Nvidia H200 Sales to Ten Chinese Firms With 25% Revenue Cut, But Beijing Tells Buyers to Stand Down
Washington has licensed Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, JD.com and distributors Lenovo and Foxconn to buy up to 75,000 H200s each. Not one chip has shipped — Beijing is pushing buyers toward Huawei.
FDA Opens Docket FDA-2026-N-4492 Soliciting Drug Repurposing Candidates for Metabolic, Neurodegenerative and Rare Diseases
The agency is asking patients, clinicians and researchers to nominate FDA-approved drugs that could be relabeled for new indications, including those backed by case reports or AI-generated preclinical evidence.
Target Rewrites Its Terms So Customers Eat the Cost When the Gemini Shopping Agent Buys the Wrong Thing
Target updated its consumer terms to treat any purchase placed by an Agentic Commerce Agent as a transaction "authorized by you," shifting AI mistake liability to shoppers ahead of its Gemini-powered checkout launch.
CMS and FDA Launch RAPID Coverage Pathway, Compressing Medicare Reimbursement for Breakthrough Devices From a Year to Two Months
A new joint program from FDA and CMS would issue a proposed Medicare coverage decision the same day a breakthrough device wins FDA authorization, aiming to cut total time-to-coverage from roughly a year or more to about two months.
Massachusetts Becomes First State High Court to Rule Section 230 Does Not Shield Social Media Design Choices
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled April 10 that Section 230 does not bar Attorney General Andrea Campbell's lawsuit against Meta over Instagram's addictive design, the first such ruling by any state's highest court.
Investors Press Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to Disclose Data Center Water and Power Use
Shareholders are asking Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to publish site-specific data-center water and energy data as scrutiny of AI infrastructure grows.