The EU has launched a formal antitrust investigation into Google’s use of online content for AI. The probe focuses on whether Google unfairly uses publisher and YouTube content to train models like Gemini without proper compensation, while blocking rivals from doing the same. This is the latest in a
Australia is banning children under 16 from social media, becoming the first democratic country to do so. In response, Reddit is implementing new global safety features for teens, including stricter chat and no NSFW content.
Reddit users faced widespread outages on December 9th, with over 22,000 reports on Downdetector. This follows a major global outage the day before, on December 8th, affecting the website, app, and servers. It’s part of a troubling trend of major platform failures this year.
A major smuggling operation has been shut down by the U.S. Department of Justice. The network used fake paperwork and rebranded the chips to illegally export them to China.
Major in-house legal departments are moving beyond simple AI experiments to developing autonomous “AI agents” that can make decisions and complete multi-step tasks. This shift is changing how legal work is divided between corporate teams and outside law firms, demanding new skills from lawyers.
A new rumor suggests Johny Srouji, the senior VP behind Apple’s M-series and A-series chips, could be leaving the company. His departure would create a massive leadership vacuum in Apple’s most critical hardware division and jeopardize its relationship with chipmaker TSMC.
Bipartisan legislation targeting Chinese biotech and tech investments is headed for a vote as part of the annual defense bill. The moves represent a significant escalation in the US effort to curb China’s technological advancement.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is pushing for a U.S. manufacturing comeback, arguing that not everyone needs a Stanford degree to be successful. He sees high-paying technician roles as critical for national growth and future AI infrastructure, even as the industry faces a massive worker shortage.
Apple’s senior VP of hardware technologies, Johny Srouji, has squashed rumors he’s leaving. This comes as the company announces the departure of three other high-profile executives in the past week alone.
A single breach at a mid-tier fintech vendor, Marquis Software Solutions, has exposed data from over 780,000 individuals. The incident highlights the massive “blast radius” a single point of failure can create across the financial sector.
