The European Union Parliament and Council last week reached agreement on a comprehensive set of rules for AI development. The rules ban several applications, such as scraping of facial images from public sources, and impose obligations on developers of high-risk systems. Formal votes are still required in both Parliament and Council for the rules to become law.
A U.S. district court judge has ruled that Google acted to create illegal monopolies in online advertising technology in a way that blocked competition and allowed higher ad prices to be charged. Google will appeal; meantime, the government will decide what to ask the court to do to remedy the monopoly. Google also faces a new U.K. antitrust lawsuit over its dominance of search.