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Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union's strict privacy rules because it mishandled users' location data, the bloc's data privacy watchdog said Monday. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-google-million-fine-eu-breach.html Business Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:05 EDT news709210529 Meta on Thursday moved to remove AI-generated videos targeting two women, including a British politician, after the tech giant's Oversight Board blasted its "fundamentally inadequate" safeguards against proliferating deepfakes. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-oversight-board-blasts-inadequate-meta.html Internet Fri, 18 Sep 2026 03:40:02 EDT news708918199 OpenAI committed "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions" when it used millions of news articles to train its artificial intelligence models, The New York Times alleged in a court document unsealed Thursday. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-nyt-alleges-microsoft-openai-knew.html Business Fri, 18 Sep 2026 03:20:01 EDT news708918180 Anthropic is expected to beat rival OpenAI to the public markets with a blockbuster IPO later this year despite recent doomsday warnings, but questions remain about their business models and whether regulators should step in. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-ai-doomsday-ipos-linger.html Business Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:50:01 EDT news708918016 A push for landmark U.S. cryptocurrency legislation collapsed on Tuesday after Republicans and Democrats in Congress failed to bridge months-old differences over ethics, banking and how the fast-growing industry should be regulated. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-senate-crypto-bill-collapses-partisan.html Business Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:00:01 EDT news708751022 Australia's pipeline of huge data center projects has raised questions about how much energy and water these giant server farms will use. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-unsustainable-dont-centers-impact-australia.html Business Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:00:03 EDT news708676862 New research from Syracuse University argues that communities battling AI data centers should borrow directly from the playbook developed a decade ago to fight fracking. The findings, by Syracuse University Associate Teaching Professor and urban planning expert Austin Zwick, were published in the Journal of the American Planning Association. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-communities-leverage-ai-center.html Business Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:00:01 EDT news708666301 Recently, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called for artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including his own, to slow down their work. Sam Altman and Elon Musk, heads of rivals OpenAI and xAI respectively, agreed. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-big-ai-safety-strategic-retreat.html Business Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:40:12 EDT news708593641 OpenAI will not go public this year, the company's chief executive, Sam Altman, said in an interview released Saturday, citing safety concerns over artificial intelligence. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-altman-fortune-openai.html Business Sun, 13 Sep 2026 04:20:01 EDT news708490434 Meta's Oversight Board asked the company not to replace fact-checking with Community Notes, according to a statement seen by AFP overnight Friday, after it said it was testing the crowdsourcing system in Latin America. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-oversight-board-meta-fact-community.html Business Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:49:09 EDT news708490135 A study carried out by the EHU-University of the Basque Country concludes that a more sustainable green hydrogen economy requires a combination of technological improvements and policies that guarantee environmental benefits, economic competitiveness and social responsibility. After analyzing various configurations of H2 production locations and global LOHC-based transport routes, the team concludes that there is no perfect scenario. However, the results show that LOHC technology has significant potential to play a key role in the global green hydrogen trade in the near future. The paper is published in the Chemical Engineering Journal. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-green-hydrogen-social-safeguards-emissions.html Business Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:40:03 EDT news708271861 Legendary Japanese video game creator Hideo Kojima said Thursday that he had partnered with Microsoft's Xbox for his next project after Sony canceled its development for the PlayStation console. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-metal-gear-creator-xbox-playstation.html Business Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:20:07 EDT news708252886 European cities will gain more leeway to curb short-term rentals such as Airbnb under new EU plans that aim to bring down housing costs in tourism hotspots. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-eu-cities-tighten-airbnb-holiday.html Business Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:40:01 EDT news708166451 Apple is expected to unveil a slew of new and updated devices, including a long-rumored foldable iPhone, when it holds its annual late-summer hardware event Wednesday in Cupertino, California. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-apple-ceo-foldable-iphone.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:20:01 EDT news708154889 Google will invest at least 13 billion euros in data centers and other digital infrastructure to power its AI ambitions in Finland, in what the U.S. tech giant called Wednesday its biggest single investment in Europe. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-google-invest-billion-euros-ai.html Business Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:40:08 EDT news708154789 Apple is unveiling its latest generation of iPhones, widely expected to include a foldable version, on Wednesday at an event headlined by new CEO John Ternus, who took over from Tim Cook on Sept. 1. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-apple-ceo-unveil-latest-iphone.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:39:01 EDT news708147522 It has been two decades since Facebook introduced the News Feed—letting loose a world in which algorithms would shape ever more of our lives. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-facebook-news-age-algorithm-years.html Consumer & Gadgets Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:00:04 EDT news708097501 Apple faces a £2 billion ($2.7 billion) lawsuit brought by UK app developers who on Thursday accused the U.S. tech giant of giving its own advertising services an unfair advantage by imposing tougher privacy rules on third parties. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-apple-billion-lawsuit-uk-app.html Business Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:00:01 EDT news707664385 U.S. President Donald Trump's administration sided with OpenAI in a lawsuit brought by The New York Times, defending training AI models on copyrighted works, according to a court document filed Tuesday. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-sides-openai-york-copyright-lawsuit.html Business Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:40:13 EDT news707657368 John Ternus took over as Apple's chief executive on Tuesday, inheriting a company that towers over the smartphone market but trails its rivals in artificial intelligence. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-john-ternus-apple-era-ai.html Business Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:00:02 EDT news707539624 Ride-hailing giant Uber will lay off about 10% of its staff as part of "significant organizational changes," CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a message to employees released Wednesday. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-uber-laying-workforce-worldwide.html Business Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:12:09 EDT news707584312 A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday refused to force Google to sell a division of its digital advertising business, rejecting the government's push to break up part of the company's ad empire. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-google-ad-business.html Business Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:40:01 EDT news707572606 Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk on Tuesday stressed the need for more AI data centers and the electric power needed to support them at a meeting of G20 technology ministers focused on the disruptions and opportunities brought by artificial intelligence. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-zuckerberg-musk-plea-g20-ai.html Business Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:44:13 EDT news707539427 Elon Musk on Tuesday urged the G20 to tread softly on regulating tech and AI, saying European-style rules inhibit innovation. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-musk-defends-ai-centers-slams.html Business Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:40:08 EDT news707483164 Apple's new CEO John Ternus takes the helm of the iconic tech giant on Tuesday, ending Tim Cook's 15-year tenure during which the company's value skyrocket to $4.6 trillion thanks to the iPhone's enormous popularity. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-apple-ceo-john-ternus-tim.html Business Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:20:08 EDT news707483063 CirculaTUM, the interdisciplinary research network of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has been researching the decarbonization of the automotive sector since the beginning of the year. The findings of the most comprehensive study in this field to date reveal substantial misdirection in European Union climate policy regulation. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-reveals-substantial-misdirection-eu-automotive.html Business Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:08 EDT news707482622 The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 22 states sued Amazon on Monday for allegedly "manipulating" online auctions for digital advertising, resulting in more than $20 billion in overcharges for 1.2 million customers. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-states-accuse-amazon-ad-auctions.html Business Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:20:04 EDT news707456724 Tech bosses including Elon Musk, Nvidia's Jensen Huang and OpenAI's Sam Altman are participating in a G20 meeting in North Carolina this week amid a global debate on how governments should address the dangers of artificial intelligence. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-g20-ai.html Business Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:22:48 EDT news707455338 Apple's chief executive Tim Cook bid farewell to the tech giant on Monday, paying tribute to founder Steve Jobs and praising staff as "extraordinary" as he passed the baton to incoming CEO John Ternus. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-apple-ceo-tim-cook-founder.html Business Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:40:02 EDT news707409457 ChatGPT will have to comply with tougher safety rules after the EU added it Monday to a list of digital services subject to greater legal scrutiny in Europe, a first for an AI chatbot. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-chatgpt-ai-chatbot-tougher-eu.html Business Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:00:08 EDT news707401772