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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s antitrust watchdog has proposed labeling Google’s and Apple’s mobile ecosystems with “strategic market status,” which would mandate changes at the Big Tech companies to improve competition. The Competition and Markets Authority’s announcement follows separate investigations it opened at the start of the year into Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS, using newly [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week warned the financial industry of a “significant impending fraud crisis” because of the ability of artificial intelligence tools to impersonate a person’s voice to bypass security checks and move money. “A thing that terrifies me is apparently there are still some financial institutions that will accept [...]
The U.S. Court of Appeals this week denied an appeal by The Associated Press for a hearing on its efforts to restore full access to cover presidential events, not ending its case but allowing the White House to continue its control over access to President Donald Trump. The news outlet wanted the court to overturn [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a lower court ruling in a wrongful death suit filed by the estate of a man killed when a group of teens on a highway bridge dropped a sandbag on the car in which he was travelling. Solicitor General Elliot Gaiser faulted the Tenth [...]
A Franklin County appellate panel was not convinced by the appeal of a woman who faulted a trial court’s divorce decree and designation of her ex-husband as sole legal custodian of the couple’s two minor children. Anna Messina asserted that the Franklin County Common Pleas Court, Division of Domestic Relations, abused its discretion in denying [...]
MIAMI (AP) — Elon Musk fought court cases on opposite coasts this week that could either speed his plan to put self-driving Teslas on the nation’s roads or throw up a major roadblock. In Miami, a Tesla driver who has admitted he was wrong to reach for a dropped cellphone moments before a deadly accident, [...]
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A new state law in New Hampshire that makes it harder to take gunmaker Sig Sauer to court is getting its first test before a judge. The two-month-old law was created by the Republican-led legislature in response to mounting lawsuits faced by the Newington, N.H.-based manufacturer over its popular P320 pistol. [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio justices have reasoned that because the city of Maumee never adopted a section of state law outlining the manner in which an elected official may be removed from office, its residents have no mechanism by which to undertake such action. The dispute arose from a recall-election effort in which five [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in Texas removed a Biden-era finalized rule by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have removed medical debt from credit reports. U.S. District Court Judge Sean Jordan of Texas’s Eastern District last week found that the rule exceeded the CFPB ‘s authority. Jordan said the Consumer Financial [...]
Unpersuaded by the arguments of a Westerville man who appealed the judgment in his personal injury claim against Kroger, a shopping center owner and a snow-removal company, a Franklin County Appeals Court panel affirmed the lower court ruling. The Tenth District Court of Appeals panel determined that the Franklin County Common Pleas Court was neither [...]