SAP averts an EU antitrust fine by opening up its support market
SAP averts an EU antitrust fine by opening up its support market

SAP has talked its way out of an EU antitrust fine. The European Commission said it would accept a set of commitments from the German software group, closing an investigation into how SAP handles maintenance and support for its on-premise enterprise so…

Jack Dorsey’s Block settles Cash App fraud claims with 46 states for $45m
Jack Dorsey’s Block settles Cash App fraud claims with 46 states for $45m

Block, the payments company chaired by Jack Dorsey, has agreed to pay $45 million to settle claims from 46 US states that it mishandled fraud on Cash App, its money-transfer and digital-banking app. The settlement is the latest sign that state regulato…

Judge approves Musk’s $1.5m SEC Twitter settlement despite ‘red flags’
Judge approves Musk’s $1.5m SEC Twitter settlement despite ‘red flags’

A federal judge has approved the Securities and Exchange Commission’s settlement with Elon Musk over his late disclosure of a Twitter stake, closing a case that has run for years. US District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan entered the consent judgment on W…

Apple loses its EU court challenge over gatekeeper status under the DMA
Apple loses its EU court challenge over gatekeeper status under the DMA

Apple has spent two years arguing that Europe’s digital rulebook should not apply to it in quite the way Brussels insists. On Wednesday, the EU’s General Court told it, in effect, that it does. The court threw out Apple’s challenge to being labelled a …

Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony fight Belgium’s creator-pay law at the EU court
Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony fight Belgium’s creator-pay law at the EU court

Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony have taken Belgium to Europe’s top court. They say its copyright law forces platforms to pay creators far beyond what the EU intended. Four of the biggest names in tech asked the EU’s Court of Justice on Tuesday to rein i…

Predatorgate victims sue the spyware maker for €8M
Predatorgate victims sue the spyware maker for €8M

Greece’s Predator spyware scandal has reached the courts. Eight people it spied on want €1 million each from the firm that built it. Eight victims of Greece’s “Predatorgate” wiretapping scandal have sued the Athens surveillance firm Intellexa and 13 pe…

Norm Ai raises $120M at a $1.2B valuation to build AI-native law
Norm Ai raises $120M at a $1.2B valuation to build AI-native law

Most AI legal startups sell software to law firms. Norm Ai built its own firm instead, and investors just valued the bet at $1.2 billion. Norm Ai has raised $120 million in a Series C round that values the New York startup at $1.2 billion, Bloomberg fi…

Meta says four states want $1.4 trillion in penalties at August youth-safety trial
Meta says four states want $1.4 trillion in penalties at August youth-safety trial

Meta has told a federal court that four US states are seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over claims it engineered Facebook and Instagram to hook young users, a figure the company put on the record in a filing on Monday. The sum, first reported by Reut…

Denmark steps into an EU court fight over what platforms owe publishers
Denmark steps into an EU court fight over what platforms owe publishers

Denmark has taken a side in one of the quieter but more consequential legal battles over how the internet pays for journalism. The Danish government has filed a written intervention at the Court of Justice of the European Union, backing Belgium in a ca…

UK’s Cooper warns of an AI ‘Hiroshima’ and calls for global rules
UK’s Cooper warns of an AI ‘Hiroshima’ and calls for global rules

Britain’s foreign secretary has a stark analogy for artificial intelligence. Do not wait for its Hiroshima moment before writing the rules. Yvette Cooper will warn that AI could become the “greatest security challenge of the next decade,” according to …