European countries are moving toward social media bans for children, even as doubts persist over implementation and the risk of a new battle with US tech groups
European countries are moving toward social media bans for children, even as doubts persist over implementation and the risk of a new battle with US tech groups
Move follows Australia's decision to introduce age restrictions over child safety concerns — Leila Abboud in Paris, Barbara Moens in Brussels and Nic Fildes in Sydney
Sources: SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic could IPO in 2026; those three deals alone would exceed the total proceeds from roughly 200 US IPOs in 2025
Three biggest US private tech groups plan listings as early as this year, raising hopes of windfall for banks, lawyers and investors
DTCC: credit default swaps tied to a handful of US tech groups have climbed 90% since early September, as investors seek ways to protect against an AI debt bust
Trading in insurance-like products that protect against tech company defaults is booming — Trading in products that pay …
The UK CMA says it will label Apple and Google as having “strategic market status”, imposing stricter rules on how they run their platforms to boost competition
Competition regulator designates the Big Tech groups with special status under strict new digital laws
Sources: Meta and Apple are close to settling two EU antitrust cases and agreeing to a deal to change their business practices after a total €700M in DMA fines
US Big Tech groups in final stages of agreeing deal with Brussels to avoid series of escalating fines
A profile of Zachary Cefaratti, a below-the-radar fixer for data centers, crypto mining, and tech groups in the Gulf through his advisory company Dalma Capital
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Sources: China's H20 curbs were triggered by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's not selling China the “best stuff” remark, which officials found “insulting”
Comments by US commerce secretary trigger Chinese regulatory effort to stop tech groups buying H20 processors
Google, Amazon, Cohere, and Mistral are intensifying efforts to reduce AI hallucinations via technical fixes, data quality improvements, and fact-checking
Tech groups step up efforts to reduce fabricated responses but eliminating them appears impossible
Google signs two 20-year power purchase agreements worth $3B to access hydroelectric power from Brookfield's renewables arm, delivering up to 670MW of power
Tech groups seeking renewable energy to meet huge demand from artificial intelligence — Google has reached a $3bn deal …