The FCC released the draft items for its Nov. 20 open meeting Thursday, including an NPRM on clearing the upper C band, an order undoing the last FCC’s response to the Salt Typhoon attacks, and an NPRM seeking comment on updating telecommunications relay services.
Amid intensifying regulatory pressure about kids' online safety, Character.AI said Wednesday that it will roll out age assurance and remove “the ability for users under 18 to engage in open-ended chat with AI" on its platform by Nov. 25. The changes respond to questions raised by regulators and in recent news reports “about the content teens may encounter when chatting with AI and about how open-ended AI chat in general might affect teens,” the chatbot platform said.
A majority of senators voted to end the emergency underpinning an additional 40% tariff on the majority of Brazilian goods, with four Republicans joining the entire Democratic caucus.
With one of the FCC's largest monthly agendas in recent years -- nine items -- the commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved everything from a major revamp of the agency's satellite and earth station approvals process to a proposal to end simulcast requirements for the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard. But three items were adopted Tuesday over the dissents of minority Commissioner Anna Gomez. She said the broadband labels further NPRM was "one of the most anti-consumer items I have ever seen." She also dissented on the prison-calling order and NPRM (see 2510280045) and the wireless direct final rule.
The Trump administration should work with Congress to preempt burdensome AI regulations at the state level, industry groups told the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in comments due Monday. Meanwhile, consumer advocates urged OSTP to protect civil rights through mandatory auditing, transparency standards and human oversight of high-risk AI systems.
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Although it's mainly a framework at present, Italy's AI Act (Law No. 132/2025) represents a "sophisticated regulatory approach" that could influence other EU countries and the U.K., lawyers said recently. The country was the first to adopt the EU AI Act into national law.
Recent privacy litigation, mainly in Florida, has raised the bar for compliance for businesses using chatbots and other tracking tools on their websites, said Fisher Phillips lawyers in a blog post Thursday.
The New Jersey Supreme Court agreed to interpret whether the state’s Daniel’s Law imposes strict liability on data brokers for posting private information online, or if proof of intent is required. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asked for the high court to weigh in at the beginning of September (see 2509040054).
Businesses should comb through their data-collection practices to comply with the unusual aspects of the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA), Kelley Drye privacy lawyers Aaron Burstein and Austin Del Priore blogged Friday.