FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP’s emails as spam
Summary FTC chair Andrew Ferguson has written to Google CEO Sundar Pichai after reports that Gmail was flagging Republican fundraiser emails as spam while not doing the same for Democratic…
Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs
Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs Summary The US government converted $5.7bn of outstanding CHIPS Act grants into a roughly 10% equity stake…
Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud
Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud Summary The Pentagon has ordered Microsoft to stop using China-based engineers to support Azure cloud services used by US…
GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot
GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Summary Microsoft-owned GitHub has added xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 large language model to GitHub Copilot as an opt-in…
xAI’s Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups
xAI’s Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups Summary More than 30 advocacy organisations led by Public Citizen and Color of Change have sent an open…
Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission
Reuters has reported that Meta allowed the creation of dozens of flirty, celebrity-based chatbots on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp using the names and likenesses of public figures without consent. While…
Battlefield 6 Dev Apologizes For Requiring Secure Boot To Power Anti-Cheat Tools
Battlefield 6 Dev Apologises For Requiring Secure Boot To Power Anti‑Cheat Tools Summary EA required players in the Battlefield 6 PC open beta to enable Secure Boot in Windows/BIOS so…
Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban
Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban Summary Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has reiterated the company’s decision not to integrate generative AI into its browser, arguing that embedded…
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations Summary Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions to how its AI chatbots interact with teenage users after…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws
Summary Mastodon says it cannot realistically comply with Mississippi’s new age-verification law because the decentralised software and the nonprofit behind it lack the technical ability and operational resources to enforce…