By Gerrit De Vynck and Cat Zakrzewski, washingtonpost.com, 5-13-24 As tech giant Google gears up this week for Google I/O, its annual developer conference, creators are worried about the expanding reach of its new search tool that incorporates artificial intelligence. The product, dubbed “Search Generative Experience,” or SGE, directly answers queries with complex, multi-paragraph [...]

By Gerrit De Vynck, washingtonpost.com, 4-30-24 Eight major daily newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, sued OpenAI and Microsoft on April 30, joining the backlash to artificial-intelligence companies that have used copyrighted work to train their algorithms without compensating content owners. The group includes South Florida’s Sun Sentinel, the [...]

By Gerrit De Vynck and Naomi Nix, washingtonpost.com, 4-25-24 The biggest tech companies in the world have spent billions of dollars on the artificial intelligence revolution. Now, they’re planning to spend tens of billions more, pushing up demand for computer chips and potentially adding new strain to the U.S. electrical grid. In quarterly earnings [...]

By Eva Dou, washingtonpost.com, 4-25-24 The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 April 25 to put the internet back under “net neutrality” regulation, reprising Obama-era rules that prohibit service providers from discriminating against certain websites by throttling or blocking them. But there’s a key detail that remains to be worked out: how to define the [...]

By Ann E. Marimow and Cat Zakrzewski, washingtonpost.com, 3-18-24 The Supreme Court seemed prepared March 18 to reject a Republican-led effort to sharply limit the federal government from pressuring social media companies to remove harmful posts and misinformation from their platforms. A majority of justices from across the ideological spectrum expressed concern about hamstringing [...]

By Daniel Frankel, NextTV, 3-14-24 By a 3-2 party-line vote, the Federal Communications Commission on March 14 approved a report and order that would require cable and satellite pay TV operators to publish in their advertising and on customer bills the actual total price of their video service, so-called junk fees included. The FCC’s [...]

By Cristiano Lima-Strong, washingtonpost.com, 3-13-24 The House overwhelmingly passed a measure March 13 to force TikTok to split from its parent company or face a national ban, a lightning offensive that materialized abruptly after years of unsuccessful negotiations over the platform’s fate. The legislation, approved 352 to 65 with 1 voting present, is a [...]

By Cristiano Lima-Strong, washingtonpost.com, 2-15-24 After months of negotiations, senators announced Feb. 15 that a sprawling bill to expand protections for children online had secured more than 60 backers, clearing a path to passage for what would be the most significant congressional attempt in decades to regulate tech companies. The Kids Online Safety Act, [...]

By Gerrit De Vynck, washingtonpost.com, 2-13-24 Leading artificial intelligence companies are planning to sign an “accord” committing to developing tech to identify, label, and control AI-generated images, videos, and audio recordings that aim to deceive voters ahead of crucial elections in multiple countries this year. The agreement, developed by Google, Microsoft, and Meta, as [...]

By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 1-19-24 Broadcasters are finding they increasingly have the government’s backing when it comes to promoting the importance of local news and information. The House has just passed the Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying (PRESS) Act (H.R. 4250), which protects journalists from government attempts to compel them to reveal [...]