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Google Files EU Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft

Google Files EU Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft

The search giant argues that Microsoft is abusing its market power in enterprise...

London&based Apron, which is aiming to become the financial super app for SMBs, raised a $30M Series B led by Zinal Growth, bringing its total funding to $50.5M (Tom Matsuda/Sifted)

London&based Apron, which is aiming to become the finan...

Tom Matsuda / Sifted: London-based Apron, which is aiming to become the financia...

Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives for authors suing the company access to review its training data to see if OpenAI used authors' copyrighted works (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)

Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives for autho...

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representati...

CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company's faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)

CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress ...

Tim Starks / CyberScoop: CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress ...

Big Tech Is Rushing to Find Clean Power to Fuel AI's Insatiable Appetite

Big Tech Is Rushing to Find Clean Power to Fuel AI's In...

Google and Microsoft are scrounging for geothermal and other green-power sources...

Is There a Safe Place to Complain About Work Online?

Is There a Safe Place to Complain About Work Online?

No, deleting your incriminating chats won’t protect you.

Portland&based Torq, which helps IT teams automate security workflows, raised a $70M Series C led by Evolution Equity Partners, for $192M in total funding (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Portland&based Torq, which helps IT teams automate secu...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Portland-based Torq, which helps IT teams automate se...

Logitech MX Creative Console review: the $200 control surface for apps like Lightroom is an affordable entry point, but pros may find the controls limiting (Steve Dent/Engadget)

Logitech MX Creative Console review: the $200 control s...

Steve Dent / Engadget: Logitech MX Creative Console review: the $200 control sur...

Spotify rolls out its AI Playlist feature in beta to Premium subscribers in the US, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand, after launching in the UK and Australia (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Spotify rolls out its AI Playlist feature in beta to Pr...

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Spotify rolls out its AI Playlist feature in beta t...

Slack, Teams, Google Chat: Is There Any Safe Place to Complain About Work Online?

Slack, Teams, Google Chat: Is There Any Safe Place to C...

No, deleting your incriminating chats won’t protect you.

After Years of Warnings, Telegram Founder Cedes to Police Requests About Users

After Years of Warnings, Telegram Founder Cedes to Poli...

Pavel Durov’s legal battle with French prosecutors took the Telegram founder by ...

How Meta's Smart Ray&Ban Glasses Spawned a Silicon Valley Hit

How Meta's Smart Ray&Ban Glasses Spawned a Silicon Vall...

Video-taking capabilities, not AI, have proven to be a key attraction to buyers ...

Profile of Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, which hires ...

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Profile of Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, whi...

Boeing annouonces hiring freeze and sweeping cost cuts as strike continues

Boeing annouonces hiring freeze and sweeping cost cuts ...

Boeing announced a hiring freeze and costcutting measures amid a crippling strik...

US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for first time in four years

US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for first time i...

The US Federal Reserve lowered its key lending rate by a deeper-than-expected 0....

TechInsights: China's YMTC upgraded its "Xtacking" tech, which stacks memory cells in layers, to rival NAND industry leaders, but significant challenges remain (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

TechInsights: China's YMTC upgraded its "Xtacking" tech...

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: TechInsights: China's YMTC upgraded its “Xtacking” tech, w...

A look at Balaji Srinivasan's Network State concept, which envisions online communities acquiring land via crowdfunding, with the goal of becoming new countries (Gabriel Gatehouse/BBC)

A look at Balaji Srinivasan's Network State concept, wh...

Gabriel Gatehouse / BBC: A look at Balaji Srinivasan's Network State concept, wh...

Nirvana, which provides insurance verification and cost estimates to healthcare providers and their patients, raised a $24.2M Series A led by Northzone (PYMNTS.com)

Nirvana, which provides insurance verification and cost...

PYMNTS.com: Nirvana, which provides insurance verification and cost estimates to...

Brazil&based Cayena, which operates a marketplace to connect suppliers and buyers in the wholesale food industry, raised a $55M Series B led by Bicycle Capital (Daniel Cancel/Bloomberg)

Brazil&based Cayena, which operates a marketplace to co...

Daniel Cancel / Bloomberg: Brazil-based Cayena, which operates a marketplace to ...

Recent announcements from Apple and Google show that AI is most useful as a feature in devices and software we already use, rather than a standalone product (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Recent announcements from Apple and Google show that AI...

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Recent announcements from Apple and Goog...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is concerned about the potential "chilling effect" of AI safety bill SB 1047, which awaits his signature, on AI development (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is concerned about...

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is concerned about ...

Revolut is spinning out its &euro;8.5B wealth management offering into a standalone app and plans to launch it in European Economic Area countries by the end of 2024 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Revolut is spinning out its &euro;8.5B wealth manag...

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Revolut is spinning out its €8.5B wealth management o...

Apple Watch Series 10 review: bigger display, wide&angle OLED, faster charging, and sleep apnea detection, but no blood oxygen and another year of minor updates (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Apple Watch Series 10 review: bigger display, wide&angl...

Victoria Song / The Verge: Apple Watch Series 10 review: bigger display, wide-an...

KKR Secures About a Third of Fuji Soft, Dousing Hopes of Bidding War

KKR Secures About a Third of Fuji Soft, Dousing Hopes o...

Fuji Soft shares fell sharply on fading expectations of a bidding war after two ...

The view from the Olympic finish line: Assessing the impact of the Paris Games

The view from the Olympic finish line: Assessing the im...

The athletes have crossed the finish line of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Ga...

Amazon launches Amelia, an AI tool to help third&party sellers resolve account issues and fetch sales and inventory data, in beta for select US sellers (CNBC)

Amazon launches Amelia, an AI tool to help third&party ...

CNBC: Amazon launches Amelia, an AI tool to help third-party sellers resolve acc...

Amazon Fell Behind in AI. An Alexa Creator Is Leading Its Push to Catch Up.

Amazon Fell Behind in AI. An Alexa Creator Is Leading I...

Rohit Prasad is tasked with making the company a stronger rival to the likes of ...

iOS 18 Is Here: A Worthy iPhone Upgrade, No AI Necessary

iOS 18 Is Here: A Worthy iPhone Upgrade, No AI Necessary

Message scheduling, app icon customization, calculator tricks, improved texting ...

Apple AirPods 4 review: ANC is impressive for an open design, upgraded sound, and wireless charging, but no proper multipoint and inconvenient volume controls (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Apple AirPods 4 review: ANC is impressive for an open d...

Chris Welch / The Verge: Apple AirPods 4 review: ANC is impressive for an open d...

Nintendo and The Pok&eacute;mon Company sue Pocketpair, accusing the Palworld developer of infringing on "multiple patent rights" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Nintendo and The Pok&eacute;mon Company sue Pocketp...

Jay Peters / The Verge: Nintendo and The Pokémon Company sue Pocketpair, accusin...

Inside Equinix's 114,300&square&foot data center in Northern Virginia, a region that is home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world (Washington Post)

Inside Equinix's 114,300&square&foot data center in Nor...

Washington Post: Inside Equinix's 114,300-square-foot data center in Northern Vi...

California Gov. Newsom signs Senate Bill 976 to protect minors, banning "addictive feeds", barring social media notifications from 12am to 6am, and more (Taryn Luna/Los Angeles Times)

California Gov. Newsom signs Senate Bill 976 to protect...

Taryn Luna / Los Angeles Times: California Gov. Newsom signs Senate Bill 976 to ...

Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold teardown: impressive repairability for a foldable, with a modular design that separates high mechanical wear parts like the USB&C port (Shahram Mokhtari/iFixit News)

Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold teardown: impressive repairabil...

Shahram Mokhtari / iFixit News: Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold teardown: impressive rep...

Want an iPhone 16 Review? Just Ask Joannabot

Want an iPhone 16 Review? Just Ask Joannabot

After more than a decade of reviewing iPhones, columnist Joanna Stern has handed...

Boeing announces hiring freeze, sweeping cost cuts as strike continues

Boeing announces hiring freeze, sweeping cost cuts as s...

Boeing has announced a hiring freeze and cost-cutting measures amid a crippling ...

Can your phone blow up? Remote device attacks in Lebanon stoke panic

Can your phone blow up? Remote device attacks in Lebano...

This week’s attacks on Hezbollah pagers and radios have spread anxiety among Leb...

Waymo to Offer Self&Driving Cars Only on Uber in Austin and Atlanta

Waymo to Offer Self&Driving Cars Only on Uber in Austin...

The latest partnership between the companies comes as self-driving cars are gain...

Nvidia launches AI Aerial, which integrates AI into the radio access network and could allow telcos to run third&party AI apps at the network's edge (Julia King/Fierce Network)

Nvidia launches AI Aerial, which integrates AI into the...

Julia King / Fierce Network: Nvidia launches AI Aerial, which integrates AI into...

Sources: Microsoft has pitched its AI to ExxonMobil, Chevron, and others to find and develop oil and gas reserves while publicly committing to reduce emissions (Karen Hao/The Atlantic)

Sources: Microsoft has pitched its AI to ExxonMobil, Ch...

Karen Hao / The Atlantic: Sources: Microsoft has pitched its AI to ExxonMobil, C...

Germany warns UniCredit against "hostile takeover" of Commerzbank

Germany warns UniCredit against "hostile takeover" of C...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned against a "hostile takeover" of Commerzbank...

Instagram Is Restricting Teen Accounts&&&and Blocking Sneaky Workarounds

Instagram Is Restricting Teen Accounts&&&and Blocking S...

The head of the social-media app said tightening the guardrails for teens will h...

TikTok heads to court in fight against US order to sell or face ban

TikTok heads to court in fight against US order to sell...

TikTok's lawyers are heading to US federal appeals court to argue that a law for...

Meta to European Union: Your Tech Rules Threaten to Squelch AI Boom

Meta to European Union: Your Tech Rules Threaten to Squ...

The Facebook parent and other companies are warning in an open letter that the r...

Sources: Apollo Global Management has offered to make an equity&like investment of as much as $5B in Intel (Bloomberg)

Sources: Apollo Global Management has offered to make a...

Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo Global Management has offered to make an equity-like ...

Sources: US Commerce Department plans to reveal proposed rules that would ban Chinese& and Russian&made hardware and software for smart cars as soon as Monday (Bloomberg)

Sources: US Commerce Department plans to reveal propose...

Bloomberg: Sources: US Commerce Department plans to reveal proposed rules that w...

Research based on the US Census Bureau's data from 2008 to 2021 suggests online dating may be partially to blame for a rise in income inequality in recent times (Alexandre Tanzi/Bloomberg)

Research based on the US Census Bureau's data from 2008...

Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg: Research based on the US Census Bureau's data from ...

HTC unveils the $999 Vive Focus Vision, a standalone VR headset with built&in eye tracking, 16MP stereo color front&facing cameras, and more, for pre&order now (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)

HTC unveils the $999 Vive Focus Vision, a standalone VR...

Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: HTC unveils the $999 Vive Focus Vision, a standalo...

The GSM Association plans to enable E2EE on messages between Android and iOS; Google is working to bring cross&platform E2EE to RCS chats "as soon as possible" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

The GSM Association plans to enable E2EE on messages be...

Emma Roth / The Verge: The GSM Association plans to enable E2EE on messages betw...

Functional Finance, which offers financial operations software for managing general agents, insurers, and wholesalers, raised a $20M Series A led by Walkabout (Avi Ben&Hutta/Coverager)

Functional Finance, which offers financial operations s...

Avi Ben-Hutta / Coverager: Functional Finance, which offers financial operations...

Doctor Web: malware dubbed Android.Vo1d has infected ~1.3M TV boxes running OSes based on Android Open Source Project in almost 200 countries, forming a botnet (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Doctor Web: malware dubbed Android.Vo1d has infected ~1...

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Doctor Web: malware dubbed Android.Vo1d has infected ...

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