Apple is overhauling its EU App Store fees to settle a long dispute with the European Commission. The company announced the changes on Tuesday, after what it called close collaboration with the Commission. Developers can sign the new terms today, and t…
Congressional staffers and outside groups are using Claude and ChatGPT to draft legislation. The lawyers who check that work cannot keep up. Owen Dahlkamp reported the strain on the House Office of Legislative Counsel for Politico on Monday. He drew on…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday. It is a separate version of the chatbot, and under-18s land in it automatically. Anyone who says they are 13 to 17 gets it by default. So does anyone the company’s age-prediction system estimates is under 1…
Nvidia announced $500bn of AI infrastructure financing last week, alongside Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. A fortnight earlier, the Securities and Exchange Commission staff answered a question. It concerned how deals …
Opening statements in the states’ case against Meta begin today in Oakland. The court seated a jury last week. The trial should run about five weeks. Twenty-nine state attorneys general brought the case in 2023. Lawyers for California, Colorado, Kentuc…
The US Justice Department is investigating Andreessen Horowitz. At issue is whether partners at the venture capital firm improperly sit on the boards of competing artificial intelligence companies. Bloomberg reported the investigation on Monday, citing…
The French tax agency says an attacker took data belonging to 678,000 individuals and businesses. The intrusions happened in June and July. The agency did not establish that anything had left its systems until the attacker said so in August. The Direct…
California has issued its first permits to test autonomous trucks on public roads, to Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, with Kodiak already running vehicles around Mountain View. Teamsters California filed suit on 5 August asking a court to repeal the r…
The US Supreme Court has refused Verizon’s request to amend a June ruling so it could pursue a refund of the $47mn it paid over selling access to customer location data. AT&T, whose case is procedurally different, can still seek reimbursement of it…
Washington is preparing to hand its partners an ultimatum, and it is not a subtle one. According to a draft State Department letter reported by Reuters, the US is about to tell friendly nations they must choose between the American and Chinese artifici…