The FTC and 17 attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon in September, alleging the company uses illegal tactics to stifle competition. The suit accused Amazon of punishing sellers for listing their products for lower prices elsewhere, among other "monopolistic practices."
Meta’s social network Threads is officially launching in Europe next week on December 14. This has been a long-time coming, as it launched in the US many months back.
Apple has joined Meta and TikTok owner ByteDance in contesting their platforms’ inclusions in the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The legislation allows regulators to designate dominant companies’ services or platforms as “gatekeepers,” or big and powerful enough to act as a bottleneck between businesses and customers.
Vice President Kamala Harris announced a half dozen additional machine learning initiatives that the administration is undertaking, at the UK AI Safety Summit on Tuesday.
A Google executive testified on Friday that the company paid $26.3 billion to other companies to acquire traffic, including default search engine status. A significant portion of that likely went to Apple.
The Biden Administration will reportedly unveil a broad executive order on artificial intelligence next week. It’s allegedly scheduled for Monday, October 30.
US Senators, Silicon Valley business and labor leaders once again descended upon Washington DC Tuesday in efforts to guide AI regulation efforts of the transformational technology.
Two days after EU Commissioner Thierry Breton sent an "urgent" letter to Elon Musk over X's handling of misinformation, the governing body has opened a probe into the platform formerly known as Twitter.
EU regulatory commissioner Thierry Breton sent a stern letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. It addresses misinformation concerns on Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
The UK's competition regulator is looking into the country's cloud services market to find out if companies are engaging in anti-competitive practices. Microsoft and Amazon are by far the biggest players in the market.
Epic Games has asked the US Supreme Court to review a ruling from 2021 that found Apple did not violate antitrust laws. Should Epic win its appeal, Apple could stand to lose a substantial source of revenue.
The FTC is reportedly set to file an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon as soon as next week. The long-expected complaint could focus on Prime and Amazon's rules for third-party sellers.
Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard looked close to being dead not long ago, but it just took a big step toward clearing its last major obstacle.
Epic Games will be forced to provide refunds to Fortnite players who were allegedly tricked into making unintended purchases on the platform. The FTC says this is one of the largest refunds in a gaming-related case to happen to date.
European authorities have found that Twitter had violated General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules when it comes to how it processes its younger users' personal data.