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Social media CEOs have been called to testify before Congress amid growing pressure to protect young users
Coding tools have become an important way for AI companies to reach business customers
Their very business model relies on maximum time on device, said Emily Boddy, co-lead of U.S. Smartphone Free Childhood, a parent group that advocates against phones in schools
OpenAI wanted to resolve its issues with Apple without resorting to legal action, but its lawyers are actively working with an outside legal firm on a range of options, the source said
Authors and other copyright holders filed claims covering over 92% of the more than 480,000 works included in the settlement, an attorney for the authors said during the hearing
Meta said that Instants was a new way to share casual and everyday photos that would disappear after people viewed them
The DMs (draft measures) raise urgent and serious concerns. If confirmed, they would create profound risks for user privacy, security, and safety as well as device integrity and performance, Apple said
Google announced software updates and new AI gadgets in the run-up to its Google I/O 2026 event
Google is pushing the space-based data centre idea with Project Suncatcher, a research effort to network solar-powered satellites equipped with its Tensor Processing Units into an orbital AI cloud
The EU told TikTok in February that it needed to change its addictive design or risk heavy fines
As part of ongoing discussions with the European Commission, general-purpose AI chatbots operating in the EEA will be given free access to the WhatsApp business API for one month, a Meta spokesperson said
Crypto companies say that prohibiting third parties, such as crypto exchanges, from paying interest on stablecoins would be anti-competitive

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