Anthropic’s push to label AI-written text has produced an immediate counter-move. Developers have started building tools to strip those labels off, according to Business Insider. Thibault Spirlet and Agnes Applegate reported that one remover has gone v…
A 2016 internal email stating that Instagram’s overall company goal was “teen time spent” is now an exhibit in an Oakland courtroom. It is one of several internal documents the states put before a federal judge this week, in the first case to reach tri…
Apple is overhauling its EU App Store fees to settle a long dispute with the European Commission. The company announced the changes on Tuesday, after what it called close collaboration with the Commission. Developers can sign the new terms today, and t…
Congressional staffers and outside groups are using Claude and ChatGPT to draft legislation. The lawyers who check that work cannot keep up. Owen Dahlkamp reported the strain on the House Office of Legislative Counsel for Politico on Monday. He drew on…
A bookseller hid an AirTag inside a rare book and let it go with a bulk order. The tracker travelled across the United States and stopped at a warehouse in Las Vegas owned by Amazon. Emanuel Maiberg reported the result for 404 Media on Monday. Booksell…
Google has agreed to pay $10mn for what a dead airline knew. A judge considers the sale on Wednesday morning. Reuters reported the price on Monday. Every account of the deal rests on one word. The data is deidentified, so nobody need worry. The Spirit …
Opening statements in the states’ case against Meta begin today in Oakland. The court seated a jury last week. The trial should run about five weeks. Twenty-nine state attorneys general brought the case in 2023. Lawyers for California, Colorado, Kentuc…
The US Justice Department is investigating Andreessen Horowitz. At issue is whether partners at the venture capital firm improperly sit on the boards of competing artificial intelligence companies. Bloomberg reported the investigation on Monday, citing…
The French tax agency says an attacker took data belonging to 678,000 individuals and businesses. The intrusions happened in June and July. The agency did not establish that anything had left its systems until the attacker said so in August. The Direct…
The Bundeskartellamt found Apple held rival apps to a stricter consent standard than its own. The agreed fix, neutral prompts and no double hurdle, applies across almost all of the EU. Apple has agreed to overhaul the way its iPhones ask people for per…