Britain’s antitrust regulator said on Monday it will undertake a review of its past market interventions to determine whether they are still justified, with the aim of rolling back rules that no longer serve their original purpose, according to Reuters. The move is intended to reduce compliance costs for companies and ease...

California is turning up the heat on the companies that buy and sell consumer data, pairing a new statewide “one-stop” deletion system with early enforcement actions that signal regulators are ready to name names. The state’s new Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform, or DROP, opened to consumers on Jan. 1, 2026, and...

Two major publishing companies are seeking to enter a high-profile copyright lawsuit against Google, arguing that their works were improperly used to train the tech giant’s artificial intelligence systems. Hachette Book Group and Cengage Group asked a federal court in California on Thursday for permission to intervene in a proposed...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sent a cease and desist letter to Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, demanding that it immediately stop generating and distributing non-consensual sexual images, according to Reuters. In a news statement released on Friday, Bonta said, “I fully expect xAI to immediately comply.” His office’s...

Alphabet’s Google has asked a federal judge to temporarily halt an order requiring the company to share certain data with competitors while it appeals a landmark antitrust decision, according to Reuters. The request was laid out in court filings submitted on Friday. The move follows a 2024 ruling by U.S. District Judge...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is preparing to take a closer look at a hiring strategy increasingly used by major technology companies, as regulators grow concerned that the practice may be designed to sidestep traditional antitrust oversight. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said the agency’s review will focus on so-called “acqui-hires,”...

Italian competition regulators have launched a formal inquiry into the business practices behind two widely played mobile games tied to Activision Blizzard, the video game publisher now under Microsoft’s ownership. The probe centers on Diablo Immortal and Call of Duty Mobile, both promoted as free-to-play titles but heavily reliant on...

With the backlash growing at the state and county levels to the construction of massive AI data centers and their impact on local energy prices, Congress and the White House are racing to get ahead of the issue. On Thursday, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) introduced a bill to force...