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    Drug regulators cancel licences of drug manufacturing units over quality concerns

    New Delhi: The central and state drug regulatory bodies have banned the licences of numerous production facilities and revoked the product approvals of a few others, all on the grounds of quality concerns. Regulators investigated dozens of medication manufacturing plants in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra in response to allegations of the […] More

  • Google to Allow UK Developers to Offer Google Play Billing Alternatives to Satisfy Regulator’s Concerns

    Britain’s competition regulator said proposals from Alphabet‘s Google to give app developers the freedom to break away from Google Play’s billing system looked to be sufficient to address its concerns about in-app payments. Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said in June that Google’s complete control over in-app payments unfairly restricted developers by forcing them […] More

  • ChatGPT Ban in Italy Attracts EU Privacy Regulators From France, Ireland: All Details

    Italy’s move to temporarily ban ChatGPT has inspired other European countries to study if harsher measures are needed to rein in the wildly popular chatbots and whether to coordinate such actions. While European parliamentarians disagree over the content and reach of the EU AI Act, some regulators are finding that existing tools, such as the […] More

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    Microsoft Must Do More to Resolve Antitrust Complaints, Say Rivals, as EU Regulators Mull Investigation

    Microsoft’s initial offer to address EU antitrust complaints filed by rivals is insufficient and the US software giant needs to do more, German software provider Nextcloud said, as regulators consider whether to open a formal investigation. French cloud computing services provider and complainant OVHcloud is also waiting for a more concrete proposal from Microsoft, a person […] More