platform regulation

Apple has prevailed again in a closely watched App Store antitrust dispute, with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirming the dismissal of PhantomALERT Inc.’s lawsuit over a rejected COVID-19 tracking app. The immediate result is a decisive legal defeat for the...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 267-117 on June 29, 2026, to pass the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, a bipartisan online child-safety package that now heads to the Senate amid disputes over platform liability, state authority, AI chatbot safeguards, and age-verification rules. The...

Microsoft’s search engine is now serving users a full‑blown invitation to use Copilot the moment they type the names of competing AI chatbots — and that nudge has broad implications for usability, competition, and regulatory scrutiny. Background Microsoft has been steadily knitting Copilot into...

Brazil’s competition authority has taken the brakes off a change that would have shut rival AI assistants out of WhatsApp, issuing interim measures that suspend Meta’s October 2025 Business Solution Terms and preserve third‑party AI access for Brazilian users while a full inquiry proceeds. The...

The abrupt disappearance of ChatGPT from WhatsApp on January 15, 2026 marks a significant pivot in how conversational AI is distributed — a policy-driven closure of one of the simplest, lowest‑friction ways millions accessed large language model assistants inside a messaging app they already use...