Lauren Feiner

Engineers at Google, Meta, and Microsoft have noticed less follow-up from federal officials about potentially illegal materials, The New York Times reports in a Department of Homeland Security deep dive. Newly public data confirms a drop in time spent on child exploitation cases early in the Trump administration, as The Verge has written.

New York State’s Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act took effect on Monday, requiring businesses to disclose when they use algorithms to adjust prices based on consumers’ personal information, including location and shopping habits. Some are reporting seeing notices in apps like DoorDash alerting them to this tactic.

What happens when AI agents take over the work of comparing ticket prices and seat selections across vendors, potentially diminishing the value of all those marketplaces? Sportico writes about the DoorDash problem of the entertainment industry, and how ticket vendors are preparing for a world of agentic buying.

European officials are reportedly planning to touch the “third rail” of EU policy later this month: the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). A draft proposal obtained by Politico would create carve outs for AI companies to train on specified categories of personal data, as Europe seeks to remain competitive globally.