OpenAI has submitted an incident report to the European Commission over the dormant German wiki that its agents took over and used as a messaging channel between themselves. Thomas Regnier, a Commission spokesperson, confirmed the filing, Reuters repor…
On 22 July 2023, Elon Musk posted that X would “bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” The next day he said the company was taking blow torches to the Twitter logo on the building. Three years on, both posts have cost him a trad…
Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5bn to the authors whose books it pirated. The money is now being counted out. Some of those authors are discovering that a share of it goes to their own publishers. The New York Times reported on Friday that authors and publ…
Berlin refused to pay. The data went up on Friday. The German capital now runs two police task forces, a joint departmental unit, a crisis management team and an external legal adviser. That is what refusing a ransom looks like once the deadline passes…
The world’s largest chemical company is suing Apple over Face ID. BASF filed a patent infringement claim on Thursday, alleging that dozens of iPhone and iPad models use face authentication technology covered by patents it owns. The case was reported by…
Apple is facing a £2bn claim in London over the privacy prompt that reshaped mobile advertising. The case, filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal on behalf of UK app developers, argues that App Tracking Transparency polices everyone except Apple. The…
Microsoft Edge will stay outside the European Union’s toughest tech rulebook. The bloc’s General Court on Wednesday rejected Opera’s challenge to the European Commission’s decision not to designate the browser as a gatekeeper service under the Digital …
Phil Schiller leaving the App Store made Monday’s headlines. The quieter fact underneath it is that Eddy Cue now runs more of Apple than anyone except the new chief executive. Mark Gurman broke the reshuffle for Bloomberg on Monday, hours before John T…
A court in Dongguan has frozen Nexperia’s shareholdings in four of its Chinese subsidiaries, worth about 2.14 billion yuan, with the order remaining in place until August 2029. The order took effect in the last week of August, Reuters reported. The ass…
Amazon runs a second-price auction for its search ads, a system in which the winning advertiser is supposed to pay one cent more than the next-highest bid. The Federal Trade Commission now alleges that Amazon charged advertisers their full winning bid …