Regulation

In its judgment of 11 November 2025 (42 O 14139/24), the Munich I Regional Court (Germany) issued a widely noted precedent on the copyright assessment of AI training and outputs under German and EU law. According to its press release1, the ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1278#7586)

OpenAI has been ordered to pay damages after a court in Germany ruled that its chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws. The Munich regional court ruled in favour of the German music performance rights organization GEMA which manages ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1278#7587)

"And the survey says… policy will likely stay on hold for an additional meeting. Hawkish momentum is building, however. We expect two hawkish dissents."

Gene regulatory network modeling often requires balancing predictive accuracy and mechanistic interpretability. In this work, we compare continuous surrogate models and a discrete mechanistic model on the same \textit{Arabidopsis thaliana} induced systemic resistance (ISR) dataset, using both the raw continuous gene-expression measurements and their sign-binarized representation. The study considers eight defense-related genes measured over nine time points and evaluates two continuous predictor

Distillation has long been a topic for AI wonks, but it's become a hot-button issue of late as techies and lawmakers debate how it should be regulated.

China’s market regulator fined Trip.com Group $765 million on Saturday after concluding that the country’s largest online travel platform abused its dominant market position. The State Administration for Market Regulation said Trip.com used its traffic allocation algorithms, platform rules and technology to restrict hotel operators from listing on competing services and to control the prices […] This story continues at The Next Web

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 88 Author(s): Francesco Cappellano, Cristian Matti, Matjaz Vidmar

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 88 Author(s): Asad Mahmood, Tian Yixiang, Muhammad Adeel Khan

Publication date: October 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 9 Author(s): Pratik Tarafdar, S.S. Swathysree

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Publication date: October 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 8 Author(s): Wanxiang Cai, Haneul Choi, Tianshu Zhao, Max Munday

Publication date: October 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 8 Author(s): Liecheng Qiao, Xiaofang Dong

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How can organisations innovate with AI while meeting growing governance and regulatory expectations?

China’s market regulator has imposed a 5.2 billion yuan (US$765 million) penalty on Trip.com Group, the country’s largest online travel services provider, for “monopolistic conduct”. Trip.com – operator of its namesake international platform, China-focused siblings Ctrip and Qunar, and global site Skyscanner – had “abused its dominant market position”, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said on Saturday. The market regulator confiscated 1.658 billion yuan in illegal gains and.

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China is closing the gap, but it’s not because we have too much regulation on AI

Minimum-exposure constraints arise in recommendation, content curation, and regulated allocation when each provider, arm, or group must receive guaranteed exposure inside a period rather than only in aggregate. We study stochastic bandits with exact exposure floors and show that the right object is a rounding problem: a fractional fair schedule is realized as integral pulls, and the exposure error is exactly a discrepancy vector. The main contribution is a blockwise model with time-varying floor

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Bills this week focused on how minors — and seniors — engage with generative AI, gauging AI’s efficacy at the VA and addressing a myriad of policy issues.

Officers gave little explanation for detaining Sister Leticia Ugboaja despite her years of compliance with immigration requirements

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy. On March 27, 2025, I issued Executive Order 14253 (Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History). Pursuant to that order, the Domestic Policy Council recently completed a months-long review […] The post Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution appeared first on The White House .

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Despite warnings from US President Trump about penalties on American tech companies, the European Union issued a $1 billion fine on the tech giant over its Google Play search.

Democrats, Republicans and political consultants fear New Jersey’s new law could slap their campaigns with hefty fines.

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Lawsuit Challenges Secret Government Policy that Collects, Stores, and Uses Personal Information About People Observing Immigration Enforcement SAN DIEGO — Privacy rights advocates and three individuals today filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful surveillance of those who peacefully observe and document federal immigration enforcement. Plaintiffs allege that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has … Continued

Lawsuit Challenges Secret Government Policy that Collects, Stores, and Uses Personal Information About People Observing Immigration Enforcement SAN DIEGO — Privacy rights advocates and three individuals today filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful surveillance of those who peacefully observe and document federal immigration enforcement. Plaintiffs allege that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has … Continued

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President Trump on Friday slammed the European Union for fining Google over allegedly violating its digital competition law, stating the "illegal and highly discriminatory practice" will be probed in a trade investigation. "The European Union is at it again and, as usual, taking direct aim at GREAT American Companies!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. "This...

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