12+ hour, 3+ min ago   (580+ words) California Attorney General Rob Bonta said there are no settlement discussions currently scheduled with Paramount Skydance over its proposed $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, leaving a major legal obstacle to the transaction unresolved as a March trial approaches. The…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (278+ words) Anthropic and OpenAI are divided on their views of a Massachusetts proposal that would establish a process in the state for evaluating the safety of artificial intelligence models, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 20). The proposal is included in a larger economic…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (437+ words) Congress is considering a major rewrite of federal financial privacy law that could offer banks and other financial companies a consequential bargain: substantially stronger consumer rights over financial data in exchange for a single national privacy regime. The Guidelines for…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (938+ words) Australia has revised a landmark plan requiring major technology platforms to financially support domestic journalism, reversing part of an earlier proposal after opposition from media companies and negotiations between the government and the opposition. The Albanese government’s News Bargaining Incentive…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (948+ words) New York City lawmakers are investigating Polymarket and raising questions about marketing practices across the fast-growing prediction-market industry, adding a new front to the regulatory pressure facing platforms that let users trade contracts tied to real-world events. City Council Speaker…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (316+ words) The White House has ended its ban on the use of TikTok on federal government devices, saying the shift of the app’s U.S. operations to American investors has made it no longer a national security threat, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Aug....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (394+ words) The CLARITY Act’s chances are fading after the Senate left for its five-week August recess without having voted on the digital asset legislation, Reuters reported Monday (Aug. 10). Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Saturday (Aug. 8) pushed a procedural vote that…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (366+ words) A trio of senators have lent their support to the Credit Card Competition Act. Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, have signed on as co-sponsors of the bill, which is opposed by banks and credit…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (442+ words) The U.S. Senate is reportedly inching closer to passing its long-delayed cryptocurrency legislation. As Reuters reported, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., moved Saturday (Aug. 8) to set up a procedural vote on the CLARITY Act when lawmakers come back from their…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (585+ words) President Donald Trump is pushing back against efforts in Congress to impose new controls on artificial intelligence, arguing that lawmakers risk burdening one of the fastest-growing areas of the technology industry just as concerns about the security of advanced AI…...