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Rules, disclosure requirements and oversight intended to shield buyers and users from misleading offers and unfair commercial practices.
Synetal Solutions Ltd is accused of taking thousands of pounds for healthcare-job training that led to no jobs, including £3,600 from one candidate. London Citizens Advice reports more recruitment scams since overseas care-worker recruitment ended, and the firm disputes the allegations.
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Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird asked a Polk County court to bar OpenAI from advanced model testing and seeks up to $40,000 per violation. With five states already suing in their own courts, OpenAI now faces suits from six.
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New York City can now fine companies $525 to $3,500 when cancelling a subscription is harder than signing up, under a rule in effect since October 1. Enforcement is already live, so checking the cancel path is this quarter's work for any company billing New Yorkers monthly.
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Five House members criticized 7-Eleven and Circle K after a Guardian review found failure rates as high as 62% in price-accuracy inspections. The enforcement already working is the state and local inspection system that produced those rates. One member has also asked the FTC to step in.
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OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies face an FTC investigation into consumer risk under the agency's longstanding unfair-or-deceptive-practices power. That puts AI safety copy under the test any marketing claim faces, though the agency has not said which statements it is examining.
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New York City's click-to-cancel rule is in effect, with fines from $525 per violation for businesses that make canceling harder than signing up. Subscription sellers with New York customers now have to let people leave through the same channel they joined.
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Korea's registered social-media sellers reported 33.31 billion won of business income in 2024, more than 18 times the 2020 figure. The tax agency says it has limited means to check those sales, so the total counts only what sellers chose to declare.
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Just over half of 2,112 UK matched bettors surveyed by Bournemouth University said they had lost money at some point, and most explained the loss as a miscalculation or a mistyped stake. The paper's title quotes one of them: there is no risk, so long as you follow the rules.
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