California regulates companion chatbots
California has passed a pioneering law regulating relational artificial intelligences for the first time, imposing transparency and protection obligations for users, including minors. After its "anti-Terminator law", California last week passed a groundbreaking AI law, Senate Bill 243, the so-called Companion Chatbots Act, which establishes for the first time in…
Sport: streaming platforms set to dismantle traditional television
Streaming platforms, with massive investments in sports broadcasting, are revolutionizing the audiovisual landscape by putting traditional television on the defensive. Steamers are still hungry. Netflix, Amazon, Apple, YouTube are insatiable beasts... Apple gets its hands on Formula 1 broadcasting in the US for $750 million over five years. A major…
Protecting children or controlling the web: Europe’s dilemma
By advocating age verification via the European digital identity and the limitation of addictive designs, the European Parliament's report on the protection of minors online goes beyond the single issue of childhood. Behind the promise of a safer Internet, some see the emergence of more intrusive regulation of digital behavior.…
Spotify joins forces with the majors to build an artist-first AI
A month after tightening the screws on the use of artificial intelligence, Spotify is joining forces with major record labels and distributors to build a common framework for musical innovation. The aim: to frame AI-assisted creation while ensuring that artists - not algorithms - remain at the center of the…