Anthropic donates $20 million to pro-AI regulation PAC
The war to build a better AI model may be mostly happening in Silicon Valley, but now another important front has opened: Washington, DC. Anthropic announced a $20 million donation to Public First Act...
Hims built a boundary-pushing health business. Now the legal risks are catching up.
aired its second Super Bowl commercial on Sunday, questioning a healthcare system it describes as built for the wealthy and again painting itself as a disrupter of the status quo. A day earlier, the t...
EU wants Meta to open up access to rival AI chatbots through WhatsApp
The European Union threatened with “interim measures” if it continues to block rival AI assistants from operating on WhatsApp, escalating regulatory pressure on the company’s strategy in Europe. Meta...
Hims to stop offering copy of Wegovy pill following FDA scrutiny
said it has decided to stop offering its newly launched copycat version of Wegovy pill, after the telehealth company drew criticism from the Food and Drug Administration. “Since launching the compoun...
Report: OpenAI may tailor a version of ChatGPT for UAE that prohibits LGBTQ+ content
In June of last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared in Abu Dhabi, UAE, alongside CEO Jensen Huang to announce “ Stargate UAE ,” a project that includes a 1-gigawatt AI data center in Abu Dhabi, and ...
Firefox will soon let users block AI features in its browser
When the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation launched Firefox back in 2004, its mission was to provide the online world with a secure, open-source alternative to the web’s then dominant browser, Microsoft’s ...
Report: Meta pouring $65 million into PACs backing pro-AI state candidates
With a pro-tech, pro-AI administration in Washington, DC, has decided the next battlegrounds that it needs to flood with cash are in individual states.
Analyst: Investors should brace for Europe’s breakup with US Big Tech
The signs are there: the French government has restricted the use of for its employees. In Germany, the state of Schleswig-Holstein is ending the use of Teams among its workers. As US-EU tensions ri...
UK prime minister vows to take action against Elon Musk’s X over AI-generated images of minors, as Grok limits image generation to paid users
Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to “take action” against Elon Musk’s X over its AI tool Grok producing sexualized images of children . Speaking on Thursday, the UK premier called the images “unlawful” and ...
Chinese AI chatbots reportedly must answer 2,000 questions, prove censorship compliance
For American companies building AI today, it is basically a free-for-all, a self-regulation zone with zero federal restrictions. But for Chinese AI companies, the Chinese Communist Party exerts strict...
Instacart slumps on report of FTC probing its AI pricing tool
dropped more than 7% in premarket trading on Thursday following an exclusive Reuters report that the FTC has launched a probe into the grocery delivery company’s AI-driven pricing tool. News of the pr...
California judge rules that Tesla has to rename “Autopilot” because it’s misleading
The California Department of Motor Vehicles ruled Tuesday that violated state law by marketing its driver assistance features using “misleading” terms like “Autopilot” and “Full Self-Driving Capabili...
Trump administration recruiting a “US Tech Force” for two-year stints in government
Months after the dismantling of DOGE and shedding hundreds of thousands of federal workers, the Trump administration is looking to Big Tech for some expert help to “solve the federal government’s most...
Trump AI executive order is a “major win” for Open AI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta, says Ives
President Trump’s new executive order aiming to keep states from enacting AI laws that inhibit US “global AI dominance” is a “major win” for OpenAI, , , and , according to Wedbush Securities analyst D...
Hims slips after US lawmakers introduce bill cracking down on compounding
slipped on Wednesday after members of Congress introduced a bill that would limit its ability to sell copies of blockbuster weight-loss drugs made by and . The bill, “ Safeguarding Americans from Fra...
Elon Musk says European Union‚ where Tesla’s sales are low, “should be abolished”
CEO Elon Musk is stirring controversy once again in Europe after the European Union fined his social media platform , X, $140 million for a number of issues, including a “deceptive” blue check mark de...
European regulators will examine if Apple’s maps and ads businesses require stricter oversight
has notified European regulators that its Apple Maps and Apple Ads platforms meet the threshold to be called “gatekeepers” under the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act, the European Commission ...
OpenAI: The New York Times is forcing us to turn over 20 million ChatGPT conversations
A judge in the copyright lawsuit against OpenAI (and ) has ordered that the ChatGPT maker hand over the conversations of 20 million users to the Times’ lawyers, in an effort to find examples of copyr...
AppLovin sinks amid report that multiple state regulators are looking into its data collection practices
Shares of adtech company are on their back foot to open the week on the heels of a report from the New York Post that “state regulators, including staff from the attorneys general from Delaware, Oreg...
AppLovin rebounds as Citi says tumble on report of SEC probe is a buying opportunity
got thwacked late in the session on Monday following a report by Bloomberg that the SEC is investigating the ad tech company’s data collection practices . Shares are paring some of that decline on Tue...