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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.
China Opens First Mandatory L2 Driver-Assistance Standard to Public Comment
China has opened a public comment period on a mandatory national standard for L2 driver-assistance systems, signaling a tighter safety baseline for intelligent connected vehicles.
European Commission Awards €180 Million Sovereign Cloud Tender to Four European Provider Groups as Brussels Codifies Digital Sovereignty Into Procurement Rules
Brussels awarded a six-year framework contract for sovereign cloud services to Post Telecom, STACKIT, Scaleway, and Proximus, using a new eight-criteria sovereignty framework that allows Google Cloud to participate only through the Proximus-led consortium.
Congress Advances Bipartisan Push to Incentivize Domestic Biomanufacturing With Dueling Tax Credit Bills
At least four bipartisan bills in the 119th Congress would create tax credits, authorize funding, and stand up USDA task forces to reduce US dependence on petroleum-derived chemicals by scaling plant-based biomanufacturing.
Alaska Secures First Federal Funding to Bring ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System North
Congress allocates $2 million from the USGS ShakeAlert budget to begin building Alaska's first earthquake early warning system, targeting 90 percent of the state's population.
FCC to Vote on Overhauling Satellite Spectrum Rules That Could Boost LEO Broadband Capacity Sevenfold
The FCC will vote April 30 on replacing 1990s-era power limits for LEO satellite constellations, a move that could reshape competition between Starlink, Amazon Leo, and legacy operators.