Montana AG Austin Knudsen led a coalition of seven AGs asking the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to reject the proposed merger between freight railroad companies Union Pacific (UP) and Norfolk Southern (NS), alleging that the merger would reduce competition and increase costs for consumers.

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A federal judge has ruled that Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar) failed to comply with a court order requiring Nexstar to maintain TEGNA Inc, as a separate and independently managed competitor and prohibiting Nexstar from exercising control over TEGNA’s management while a multistate lawsuit challenging Nexstar’s proposed acquisition of TEGNA moves through the courts. The multistate…

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Iowa AG Brenna Bird is leading a coalition of 15 Republican AGs demanding transparency and accountability from the AI company OpenAI for its alleged lack of oversight and transparency in the hacking of Hugging Face, another AI company. In July, OpenAI unveiled an experimental AI model that gained unauthorized access to several computer networks which…

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The FTC, Utah, and California jointly have sued Hims & Hers alleging that the telehealth provider shared consumers’ sensitive health information about medical conditions with third party advertising platforms despite claiming its services maintain consumers privacy, and further alleging that the company deceives users about their billing and cancellation practices. The complaint alleges that Hims…

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A bipartisan coalition of 50 state and territory AGs sent a letter pushing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to strengthen its “Know Your Customer” (KYC) rules to help prevent scammers from using the U.S. communications network to make illegal robocalls.

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