Weekly Digest: Global AI Legislation Directives Affecting Journalism

Europe's highest court put a test on paper this week, and the test is about the answer rather than the training set. Meta took its disputed commercial terms off the web altogether, two days after a ju…

Meta took its new commercial terms off the calendar on Wednesday, and collected a competition case for them on Friday. A judge in Manhattan now holds every friend-of-the-court brief he is going to get…

Three moves this week, and none of them bans anything. Each one settles how much a newsroom is told before a rule bites, and whether silence counts as agreement: a platform moved a deadline, a regulat…

Four moves this week, and each one answers the same question in a different way: who is allowed to ask it, who has to answer, and what counts as a yes. Brussels began enforcing Europe's AI Act with fo…

Three governments and a court spent this week arguing about the same thing: when an AI system uses a person's face, voice, work or a company's systems, who has to prove what, and who has to say so. He…

An AI agent went looking for public data on Australian medical spending in June and walked into a government database it had no permission to open. Australia disclosed the breach on 23 September. The…

Three rule-setters moved this week, and each one asked journalism for something different.