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Meta reached a settlement in a landmark case over the alleged harms of social media, the plaintiffs' lawyers said Friday, leaving Snap as the only defendant in a trial set to open in Los Angeles next week. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-meta-snap-sole-defendant-social.html Business Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:39:45 EDT news712647556 Britain's competition watchdog Friday opened an investigation into whether Meta was imposing "exploitative" new terms allowing it to use media content for its own products, including AI, without giving publishers adequate choice. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-uk-probes-meta-exploitative-terms.html Internet Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:20:01 EDT news712585077 Companies around the world are increasingly citing artificial intelligence when slashing jobs, fueling anxiety that a lot more workers may lose their livelihoods to machines. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-company-ai-job.html Business Fri, 30 Oct 2026 05:50:02 EDT news712556800 Nvidia's $3 billion investment in Meta's share sale, announced Tuesday, is the latest addition to a portfolio of stakes, loans and guarantees that has made the chip giant what some analysts describe as the central bank of the artificial intelligence boom. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-nvidia-web-ai-smart-strategy.html Business Fri, 30 Oct 2026 05:40:01 EDT news712557024 DoorDash is offering $17 billion to buy Instacart in a deal that could consolidate the grocery delivery business in the U.S. and abroad. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-doordash-billion-instacart-big-grocery.html Business Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:10:01 EDT news712500644 Cornell researchers, working with upstate New York battery company Charge CCCV, also known as C4V, have developed a real-time diagnostic approach to improve one of the most expensive and time-consuming stages of lithium-ion battery manufacturing: forming the battery. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-real-battery-crucial.html Business Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:00:22 EDT news712489621 Microsoft shares popped more than 5% Wednesday afternoon after it reported better-than-expected revenue and profit, fueled by its Azure cloud computing division, which grew by 48% in the September quarter. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-microsoft-fueled-azure-cloud-business.html Business Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:00:01 EDT news712470239 Shares in Google parent Alphabet fell more than 10% in after-hours trading Wednesday as the company reported lower-than-expected profit and a slowdown in its advertising business while it maintained big spending on AI. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-google-owner-alphabet-plummet-profit.html Business Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:20:01 EDT news712470158 Samsung Electronics said Thursday that its operating profit for the last quarter reached a record 107.4 trillion won ($80.5 billion), fueled by surging demand for its computer memory chips used in artificial intelligence systems. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-samsung-shattering-profit-ai-boom.html Business Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:50:01 EDT news712469975 The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday it is ordering Delta Air Lines, Walmart and other companies to provide detailed information on how they use consumers' data when they're setting prices. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ftc-walmart-delta-personal-prices.html Business Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:30:01 EDT news712469959 South Korea on Wednesday fined Alphabet's Google and Apple a combined 63.7 billion won ($47.6 million), saying they abused their dominance in app store markets by forcing local developers onto their own payment systems and by unfairly delaying app reviews. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-south-korea-fines-google-apple.html Business Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:40:04 EDT news712413125 The competitive gaming industry has grown rapidly over the past two decades, transforming from a niche subculture into a global phenomenon watched by millions of spectators worldwide. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ways-professional-gaming-geopolitical.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:00:01 EDT news712393099 Worried about your employment prospects now that the next level of artificial intelligence has arrived, accompanied by breakthroughs like ChatGPT? "Don't be," says Barry Smith, Ph.D., SUNY distinguished professor of philosophy at the University at Buffalo. "There are many things that AI does well, but there are too many areas of human intelligence that involve what you can't emulate through the data that's used to train AI." https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-experts-discuss-ai-impact-future.html Business Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:20:10 EDT news712392382 Dependence on digital technologies in the European Union continues to grow—despite all calls for greater digital sovereignty. Between 2010 and 2023, Europe's "Digital Dependence Index" (DDI) rose by 0.5 percentage points, while China reduced its dependence by nearly 11 percentage points and the U.S. by 6 percentage points. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-europe-digital-china.html Business Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:00:02 EDT news712391422 Jury selection began on Wednesday in Los Angeles for another landmark trial about the alleged harms of social media on young users, with Meta and, for the first time, Snap as defendants. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-meta-snap-trial-case-social.html Internet Wed, 28 Oct 2026 06:30:02 EDT news712386431 No startup has ever grown so fast. In five years, Anthropic has become an AI giant valued at $1 trillion, and it is now aiming for a record-breaking stock market debut. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-anthropic-ipo-big.html Business Wed, 28 Oct 2026 06:07:19 EDT news712386274 Article 39 of the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) requires very large online platforms (VLOPs) and very large online search engines (VLOSEs), including social media platforms like Instagram, shopping platforms like Temu and app stores like Google Play, to provide a database of all advertising shown and transparency as to who paid for each ad, which user demographics were targeted and how many users were reached in each country. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-shown-ad-platforms-wont-eu.html Internet Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:00:22 EDT news712312968 Norway's main media organizations said Tuesday they had taken legal action to block Meta from enforcing new user terms that they claim threaten their rights to their journalistic content. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-norway-media-legal-action-block.html Business Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:20:26 EDT news712314138 Microsoft has offered 60,000 employees, or about 27% of its global workforce, voluntary buyouts as the software giant spends heavily on artificial intelligence. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-microsoft-quarter-global-workforce-voluntary.html Business Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:20:16 EDT news712246181 Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic filed paperwork Monday for what could be the biggest initial public offering of stock ever, even as its top executive warns that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-anthropic-potentially-biggest-ipo-ceo.html Business Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:20:10 EDT news712246159 Elon Musk said this week that SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to study a merger of his two biggest companies. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-musk-merge-spacex-tesla.html Business Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:46:21 EDT news711945957 For two decades, data centers were relatively safe, lucrative real estate investments. They attracted investors because they served as digital infrastructure—the essential plumbing that keeps the internet running. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-center-company-investors-faith-ai.html Business Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:40:02 EDT news711879745 Waze on Thursday rejected Malaysia's claims that it collects sensitive government information or allows any entity to exploit personal user data, after the government banned civil servants from using the navigation app, citing its Israeli connection. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-waze-malaysia-civil-servants-barred.html Business Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:40:05 EDT news711894539 A University of Dayton statistician and an international team of researchers are showing how artificial intelligence can help factories detect flawed parts without the expensive step that keeps the technology out of reach for most manufacturers. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-pretrained-ai-factory-defects-examples.html Business Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:20:26 EDT news711893522 A New Mexico judge ruled Wednesday that Meta must pay $25 billion to the state after a jury found last month that the social media giant had deceived users in a case related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to media reports. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-meta-pay-billion-mexico-cambridge.html Business Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:00:01 EDT news711863053 Meta and its social media platforms Facebook and Instagram are facing a class-action lawsuit in Australia over allegations addictive design features are harming children and teenagers. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-meta-sued-australia-class-action.html Business Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:40:01 EDT news711863036 U.S. shopping giant Walmart on Wednesday unveiled tools allowing artificial intelligence agents such as Meta's Muse to shop on behalf of its customers, taking the opposite approach to rival Amazon, which bars outside AI agents from its platform. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-walmart-ai-agents-anthropic.html Business Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:30:01 EDT news711864009 The history of corporate mergers is littered with failure, but investors in Tesla and SpaceX seem to believe Elon Musk can pull off the biggest tie-up of all time. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-spacextesla-megamerger-benefit-companies-elon.html Business Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:20:01 EDT news711862742 The European Union opened an investigation into online travel agent Booking.com on Wednesday over alleged failures to tackle fake listings and phishing scams. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-eu-probes-bookingcom-online-fraud.html Business Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:40:02 EDT news711794312 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged players in Europe's lagging artificial intelligence industry to get going and touted a modular system to quickly build AI data centers with the massive computing capacity the continent's developers need but currently lack. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-nvidia-ceo-europe-lagging-ai.html Business Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:09 EDT news711794050