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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 … | Danai Nesta Kupemba / BBC: |
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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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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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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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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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.| Stuart Condie / Wall Street Journal: |
US real estate analytics provider CoStar agrees to acquire Domain, an Australian property listings website that competes with News Corp's REA, for about $1.92B — Domain shareholder Nine Entertainment said it supported the proposal — SYDNEY—U.S. real-estate analytics provider CoStar agreed …
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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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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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ServiceNow agrees to acquire cloud-native data catalog and data governance startup Data.World, which had raised over $130M and was valued at $350M in 2022 — Enterprise workflow management platform ServiceNow on Wednesday announced its second AI-related acquisition this year.
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How the three largest US gig economy companies, Lyft, DoorDash, and Uber, are aggressively expanding into Europe and Turkey through acquisitions — Tech Across the Globe … Revalued — Companies from Apple Inc. to Ford Motor Co. have revealed the shock their bottom lines are experiencing … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
SoundCloud quietly changed its policies to allow the company to use audio uploaded by users on its platform to “inform, train, develop or serve as input to AI” — SoundCloud appears to have quietly changed its terms of use to allow the company to train AI on audio that users upload to its platform.
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Japan's NTT, which owns 57.7% of IT services provider and data center operator NTT Data, launches a $16.4B take-private tender offer to buy the remaining stake — Japanese telecoms firm Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (9432.T) announced plans on Thursday to take its subsidiary NTT Data …
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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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