New York's Division of Consumer Protection issued an AI investment scam warning on Aug. 26 after 144,041 consumers reported losing more than $8 billion in 2025, a 38% increase from 2024, with a median…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized consent orders on August 27, 2026, against Cox Media Group, MindSift LLC, and 1010 Digital Works LLC, fining them a total of $930,000 for marketing an AI-p…
Amazon's Ring announced on August 26 that it is rolling out TAKE (Throw Away the Key Encryption), a new default encryption system that deletes Amazon's copy of camera keys within 24 hours, with the ph…
Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-R.I., introduced the AI Advertising Disclosure Act on Aug. 24 to require AI tools like chatbots and AI-enabled search engines to disclose paid sponsored content in plain languag…
The Federal Trade Commission voted on December 22, 2025, to reopen and set aside its 2024 consent order against Rytr LLC, narrowing the means-and-instrumentalities theory of liability for AI tool prov…
New York's Synthetic Performers law, which took effect in June, has drawn its first four complaints from advertisers allegedly using AI-generated models or actors without disclosure, all currently und…
A McAfee survey found that 1 in 7 American adults (15%) have lost money to an online dating or romance scam, and only 24% of those victims recovered all their funds. The survey also revealed that 35% …
The European Union's AI Act, spanning 113 articles and roughly 50,000 words, is the first comprehensive AI legislation globally, while the U.S. has no federal AI law, relying on executive orders, agen…
A coalition of advocacy groups, including the Demand Progress Education Fund, the Consumer Federation of America, and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, has urged the Federal Trade Commission to i…
Stephen Moore, in a Fox News opinion piece, argues that the FTC under Chairman Andrew Ferguson should approve the proposed merger of Covetrus and MWI Animal Health, claiming it would lower prices for …
More than a dozen civil society groups, including Demand Progress Education Fund, the Consumer Federation of America, and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, are urging the U.S. Federal Trade Commi…
The Federal Trade Commission has initiated at least 13 enforcement actions since launching Operation AI Comply in September 2024, all targeting marketing deception rather than the behavior of autonomo…
New Jersey's Fair Price Protection Act, signed into law on July 23, 2026, creates a private right of action for data-driven pricing violations, exposing developers of autonomous pricing systems to tre…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 2-0 on August 19 to issue a draft policy statement requiring companies to disclose when they use personal data to set personalized prices, targeting AI-driven …
A coalition of 18 advocacy organizations has asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate AI companies for buying physical books, scanning them for model training, and then destroying the or…
Demand Progress Education Fund and a coalition of civil society groups asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Friday to investigate AI companies Anthropic and Amazon for buying books in bulk…
More than 300 public comments on the Federal Trade Commission's draft policy targeting AI-generated speech reveal deep concern over government policing of AI content and geopolitical stakes involving …
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said the biggest competitive risks in artificial intelligence lie not among AI models but in the upstream inputs—chips, power, and construction—needed to build them, while…
Amazon.com Inc. generated $76.1 billion in advertising-services revenue over the four quarters ended June 30, 2026, according to its second-quarter earnings report, while author Seth Godin criticized …
OpenAI introduced 'ChatGPT for Teens' on Tuesday, a version of its ChatGPT chatbot with stronger safeguards and monitoring for users aged 13 to 17, amid legal pressure including wrongful death lawsuit…