UK probes Amazon and Microsoft over AI partnerships with Mistral, Anthropic, and Inflection
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching preliminary enquiries into…
Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over controversial Project Nimbus contract with Israel
Google has terminated the employment of 28 employees following a prolonged sit-in…
India scrambles to curb PhonePe and Google’s dominance in mobile payments
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the body overseeing the country’s…
Meta to close Threads in Turkey to comply with injunction prohibiting data-sharing with Instagram
Meta has said that it plans to “temporarily” shutter Threads in Turkey…
UK’s antitrust enforcer sounds the alarm over Big Tech’s grip on GenAI
The U.K.’s competition watchdog has sounded a warning over Big Tech’s entrenching…
YouTube is turning off kids’ ability to write comments in supervised experiences
YouTube’s comments section, historically, has had a bad reputation, but a change…
US to award TSMC $6.6B in grants, $5B in loans to step up chip manufacturing in Arizona
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday that it has signed an…
New U.S. ‘green bank’ aims to steer over $160B in capital into climate tech
For years, banks have been financing large renewable power projects, from utility-scale…
India, grappling with election misinfo, weighs up labels and its own AI safety coalition
India, long in the tooth when it comes to co-opting tech to…
@Potus just joined the fediverse via Instagram Threads
The fediverse — the name for the social network made of interconnected…
