EU fines Google $3.5B over adtech ‘abuse’

This is a bad idea.

As age and identity verification laws become more mainstream, this legislation could have a dire impact on privacy.

Musk used to say Tesla would make 20 million cars and one million humanoid robots per year. The company's board wants far less than that in exchange for $1 trillion.

OpenAI is shuffling the team that shapes its AI models' behavior, and its leader is moving on to another project within the company.

Writers aren't getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI -- this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them.

Dot, a personalized AI companion, is shutting down.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns over the safety of ChatGPT, particularly for...

Google's Gemini comes up short on kids' safety, says Common Sense Media.

Leaders from Pulley, 645 Ventures, and Epigram Legal join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 in San Francisco. Register to join.

From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot has happened already.

Users can scroll through a feed of gameplay moments shared by the Roblox community and react to the clips using emojis, and they can jump into an experience right from a video.

Tesla spent a fraction on X in early 2025 compared to 2024. It also paid $300,000 to Kimbal Musk's drone company.

Warner Bros. says that Midjourney knowingly engaged in wrongful conduct, noting that the company previously restricted subscribers from generating content based on infringing images but recently...

The sodium-ion battery startup went from announcing a $1.4 billion factory to filing for liquidation in just over a year. Natron's troubled journey illustrates the challenges in making batteries...

X's new encrypted messaging feature, XChat, has some red flags.

Isotopes, co-founded by Arun Murthy, launched a sophisticated analytics agent. Arun was one of the creators of Hadoop who later joined Scale AI.

The team behind Alex, which built a popular tool that let devs use AI models within Apple's development suite Xcode, is joining OpenAI.

When you design for people instead of institutions, you don’t just build a product. You build a movement. That’s the idea behind this Builders Stage session called “Creating Communities and...

A shareholder proposal would allow Tesla to invest in Elon Musk's rival AI firm, xAI if approved. Tesla's board didn't recommend one way or another.

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