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EU tells Meta to open up WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots

A Meta spokesperson said that there is no reason for the EU to intervene.

Palantir CEO defends surveillance tech as contracts with US govt, including ICE, boost sales

Palantir CEO Alex Karp said the company was “supporting in a critical manner" some US government operations.

ByteDance forms joint venture: Who owns TikTok in the US now?

Under the arrangement, non-Chinese investors will own about 80 per cent of the American venture.

Trump is choosing the broligarchs over his base

Despite having bitterly fallen out earlier this year, US President Donald Trump and Mr Elon Musk are fated to be close, says the writer.

EU dismisses ‘completely crazy statements’ after Musk attack

Tech tycoon Elon Musk's social media platform X was fined €120 million (S$181 million) by Brussels for breaking the EU’s digital rules.

US ambassador slams EU tech rules as Musk’s X hit with fine

The European Commission accused X of misleading users with its paid-for blue checkmark verification programme.

EU fines X more than $180m for breaching online content rules, TikTok settles with concessions

The EU sanction against X follows a two-year-long investigation under the bloc's Digital Services Act.

EU states back away from forcing Big Tech to detect and remove child pornography

The EU council said online providers would have to assess the risk of their services being used to disseminate child sexual abuse material and take preventative measures.

EU to ease AI, privacy rules as critics warn of caving to Big Tech, Trump

Tech lobby groups have urged the EU to pause implementation of the AI Act.

Cloudflare outage: Why today’s internet is so fragile

Big Tech companies like Microsoft now dominate cloud computing, and that monopoly is causing some problems.

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