President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico is suing Google for ignoring requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US
Mexico is suing Google for ignoring repeated requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps for US users, President Claudia Sheinbaum says.
Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4B to settle two lawsuits claiming it tracks Texans' personal location and maintains their facial recognition data without consent
Google will pay the state of Texas $1.375 billion to resolve two privacy lawsuits claiming the tech giant tracks Texans' personal location …
The US FDA plans to deploy AI tools to all centers by June 30, 2025 to speed up scientific reviews, after completing a pilot and naming its first AI chief
FDA Artificial Intelligence AI and Machine Learning Biotech — The FDA has appointed its first chief artificial intelligence officer …
A study finds that asking LLMs to be concise in their answers, particularly on ambiguous topics, can negatively affect factuality and worsen hallucinations
Turns out, telling an AI chatbot to be concise could make it hallucinate more than it otherwise would have.
A look at Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center, staffed largely by ex-intelligence and military personnel, which has become a key pillar of US cyber defense
Over the past decade, the software company has become a pillar of US cyber defenses — a position that could become more complicated under Trump.
US real estate analytics provider CoStar agrees to acquire Domain, an Australian property listings website that competes with News Corp's REA, for about $1.92B
Domain shareholder Nine Entertainment said it supported the proposal — SYDNEY—U.S. real-estate analytics provider CoStar agreed …
After a backlash, Whoop says members with more than 12 months remaining are now automatically eligible for a free upgrade to 5.0
Your Gear News of the Week The Indian Express : Whoop faces backlash after cancelling free hardware upgrades Dana Wollman / Bloomberg : Whoop Faces Backlash After Charging Existing Users Upgrade Fee f...
SoundCloud quietly changed its policies to allow the company to use audio uploaded by users on its platform to “inform, train, develop or serve as input to AI”
SoundCloud appears to have quietly changed its terms of use to allow the company to train AI on audio that users upload to its platform.
Epic Games says it has submitted Fortnite to the US App Store for review
Attached are some key passages from the court ruling. It affirms that Epic was guilty of breach of contract, and moreover that Epic's standing in the case depends on being an industry competitor and ...
A profile of OpenAI's CEO of Applications Fidji Simo, who is tasked with broadening ChatGPT amid a straining Microsoft relationship and a battle with Elon Musk
Simo will oversee executives and seek to broaden the company's hit chatbot into a Swiss Army knife of artificial intelligence software.
Japan's NTT, which owns 57.7% of IT services provider and data center operator NTT Data, launches a $16.4B take-private tender offer to buy the remaining stake
Japanese telecoms firm Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (9432.T) announced plans on Thursday to take its subsidiary NTT Data …
ServiceNow agrees to acquire cloud-native data catalog and data governance startup Data.World, which had raised over $130M and was valued at $350M in 2022
Enterprise workflow management platform ServiceNow on Wednesday announced its second AI-related acquisition this year.
The UK stopped asking Uber to pay VAT on the full cost of rides, instead collecting VAT only on its commission, after a setback in a similar dispute with Bolt
HMRC has stopped demanding ridesharing company pay VAT on the full cost of rides after legal setback in related matter
How the three largest US gig economy companies, Lyft, DoorDash, and Uber, are aggressively expanding into Europe and Turkey through acquisitions
Tech Across the Globe … Revalued — Companies from Apple Inc. to Ford Motor Co. have revealed the shock their bottom lines are experiencing …
A profile of Gail Slater, the head of the DOJ's antitrust unit who has become the leader of the MAGA antitrust movement over Big Tech “censorship” concerns
very much not what some in the business world & antitrust bar have hoped for (or at least publicly predicted) from this admin. Nancy Scola / @nancyscola : I profiled the new head of the DOJ antitrust ...
The Trump administration's plan to cut the budget of the NSF, considered key to US tech leadership, by about 57% to $3.9B is alarming the startup and VC sector
From NASA to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Trump's reform agenda has thrown numerous federal agencies under … LinkedIn: Jessica Mathews LinkedIn: Jessica Mathews : The most important and l...
Meta unveils AssetGen 2.0, an AI system that generates higher quality 3D assets compared to AssetGen 1.0, rolling out to Horizon creators later in 2025
David Heaney / UploadVR :
Datadog acquires Eppo, which offers feature flagging and app experimentation tools, reportedly for $220M; Eppo had raised $47.5M and was valued at $80M in 2022
Datadog is on an acquisition spree. Just a few weeks after snatching up Metaplane, an AI-powered observability startup …
Brian Armstrong says Coinbase considered allocating 80% of its balance sheet into bitcoin but decided against the scheme as it was too risky
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg :
Google agrees to pay $50M to settle a lawsuit accusing it of systemic racial bias against Black employees, covering 4,000+ employees in California and New York
But $12.5K per person isn't real justice for being denied promotions or bonuses as a Google employee is not a meaningful punishment nor compensation for the loss. @hypervisible : The plaintiff “said G...
Q&A with SAP CEO Christian Klein on data security, Databricks partnership, building a “social network for B2B”, positioning SAP as a neutral player, and more
We covered a lot of ground …
Sources: the US Treasury asked Benchmark whether its Manus AI funding is covered by restrictions on investments in tech destined for “countries of concern”
“Benchmark was advised by multiple US law firms that the investment was not covered by the outbound investment restrictions, because Manus was not developing its own AI models.” — www.semafor.com/ar...
Tech companies warn they may pull back from US investment pledges if Congress doesn't fully reinstate the R&D tax deduction pared back in Trump's 2017 tax bill
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg : Forums: r/politics and Slashdot Forums: r/politics : Tech Industry Warns US Investment Pledges Hinge on Research Tax Break Msmash / Slashdot : Tech Industry Warns US Inve...
Sources: Snowflake challenger ClickHouse is in talks to raise hundreds of millions led by Khosla Ventures at a $6B valuation, triple its valuation from 2021
Sri Muppidi / The Information : Forums: r/NBIS_Stock Forums: r/NBIS_Stock : ClickHouse Targets $6 Billion Valuation (Which Nebius owns a 28% stake in which would be valued @ $1.68 billion)
Pinterest agrees to pay $34.7M to settle a 2021 lawsuit from Christine Martinez, an early adviser who claimed she co-created the platform without compensation
Eli Tan / New York Times :
Source: US DOL ended its probe into Scale AI's Fair Labor Standards Act compliance, after announcing a friendlier approach to classifying workers as contractors
Charles Rollet / TechCrunch :
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