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Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4B to settle two lawsuits claiming it tracks Texans' personal location and maintains their facial recognition data without consent — Google will pay the state of Texas $1.375 billion to resolve two privacy lawsuits claiming the tech giant tracks Texans' personal location … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Epic Games says it has submitted Fortnite to the US App Store for review — Update: Epic Games says it has submitted Fortnite to the U.S. App Store for review. The ball is now in Apple's court to approve the app submission. — If Fortnite does return to the U.S. App Store this week, it won't be before Friday.| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
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Whoop sparks a backlash after asking its subscribers to pay to upgrade to 5.0, despite earlier promises of free hardware upgrades after six months of membership — Whoop promised members who'd been around at least six months would get free next-gen hardware. Now, you'll have to pay.
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President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico is suing Google for ignoring requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US — Mexico is suing Google for ignoring repeated requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps for US users, President Claudia Sheinbaum says.
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The US FDA plans to deploy AI tools to all centers by June 30, 2025 to speed up scientific reviews, after completing a pilot and naming its first AI chief — FDA Artificial Intelligence AI and Machine Learning Biotech — The FDA has appointed its first chief artificial intelligence officer …
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Sources: the US Treasury asked Benchmark whether its Manus AI funding is covered by restrictions on investments in tech destined for “countries of concern” — THE SCOOP — The US Treasury Department is reviewing a Benchmark Capital-led $75 million investment in Chinese startup Manus AI …
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| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Pinterest agrees to pay $34.7M to settle a 2021 lawsuit from Christine Martinez, an early adviser who claimed she co-created the platform without compensation — Christine Martinez, who was a friend of two of Pinterest's three co-founders, sued the company in 2021 for breach of implied contract and other claims.| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
Source: US DOL ended its probe into Scale AI's Fair Labor Standards Act compliance, after announcing a friendlier approach to classifying workers as contractors — The U.S. Department of Labor has dropped its investigation into Scale AI's compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act …
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Google agrees to pay $50M to settle a lawsuit accusing it of systemic racial bias against Black employees, covering 4,000+ employees in California and New York — Google agreed to pay $50 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the search engine company of systemic racial bias against Black employees.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with SAP CEO Christian Klein on data security, Databricks partnership, building a “social network for B2B”, positioning SAP as a neutral player, and more — Today's Stratechery Interview is with SAP CEO Christian Klein. Klein started working for SAP as a 15 year-old student …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Brian Armstrong says Coinbase considered allocating 80% of its balance sheet into bitcoin but decided against the scheme as it was too risky — “There were definitely moments over the last 12 years where we thought, man, should we put 80% of our balance sheet into crypto — into Bitcoin specifically …
More: Cryptopolitan, Blockchain.News, and PYMNTS.com
| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Tech companies warn they may pull back from US investment pledges if Congress doesn't fully reinstate the R&D tax deduction pared back in Trump's 2017 tax bill — Major tech companies lobbying to salvage a tax deduction for research and development are warning they may pull …
Forums: Slashdot
| Nancy Scola / Politico: |
A profile of Gail Slater, the head of the DOJ's antitrust unit who has become the leader of the MAGA antitrust movement over Big Tech “censorship” concerns — Gail Slater, the head of the DOJ's antitrust division, will show how serious the right is about bringing big tech companies to heel.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Datadog acquires Eppo, which offers feature flagging and app experimentation tools, reportedly for $220M; Eppo had raised $47.5M and was valued at $80M in 2022 — Datadog is on an acquisition spree. Just a few weeks after snatching up Metaplane, an AI-powered observability startup …
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