The European Commission has added ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox to the short list of digital services considered large enough to warrant the European Union’s highest level of scrutiny, giving the three companies until January to meet a more demanding set of obligations under the Digital Services Act.
Ohio State University has agreed to pay $2.1 million to resolve allegations that it failed to disclose employees’ ties to and financial support from the People’s Republic of China while seeking federal research funding, the Justice Department announced Monday.
The machinery meant to keep oily waste out of the ocean was aboard the MSC Samira III. So was the monitoring equipment meant to catch a violation. When those protections became inconvenient, senior crew members found ways around them. For months, oily bilge water was moved through the ship and discharged into the sea while the records meant to account for such discharges told a different story. On Friday, the companies responsible for the vessel pleaded guilty to federal pollution charges and were sentenced to pay a combined $1.75 million fine.
DermTech, the skin cancer testing company which filed for bankruptcy in 2024 and is now liquidating as DTech Liquidating, has agreed to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting claims to Medicare for unreliable tests. Under the settlement announced Wednesday, the federal government received an allowed Class Three General Unsecured Claim of $5,038,011 in DermTech’s bankruptcy proceeding.
Google has agreed to pay £260 million to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of UK app developers who accused the company of using its control over the Play Store to impose unfair commissions and restrictions on how their apps could reach customers, according to Reuters.
KKR & Co. has agreed to pay $250 million to settle Justice Department allegations that it repeatedly violated federal premerger review requirements, a penalty without precedent under a law whose effectiveness depends, in no small part, on companies telling regulators what they are required to know.
The Villages Health System has agreed to a $541.5 million settlement over diagnosis codes that made Medicare Advantage patients appear sicker than their medical records supported, increasing what the federal government paid their health plans and, ultimately, what those plans paid the Florida provider group.