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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 The 1960s were a time of great change in technology, culture and politics. Television was radically altering the media environment, and nobody was quite sure how to think about it. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-ai-media-theorists-1960s-figure.html Business Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:20:06 EDT news707378582 John Ternus takes 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/2026-08-john-ternus-apple-age-ai.html Business Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:57:56 EDT news707367458 Whether employees are worried about losing their jobs to AI depends largely on their knowledge of artificial intelligence—and on the extent to which their work can be digitized. This is one of the findings of the latest AI Monitor published by TU Darmstadt, based on a representative survey of more than 2,000 people conducted in cooperation with the market research and polling institute YouGov. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-ai-jobs.html Business Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:20:04 EDT news707133598 Rockstar Games on Thursday launched, for the first time on Netflix, a preview of its hotly anticipated next installment in the Grand Theft Auto franchise, which will be released in November after a monthslong delay and recent leaks. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-guns-drugs-car-gta-preview.html Software Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:00:01 EDT news707109019 Some video game fans are flabbergasted at Sony's decision, announced at Germany's Gamescom trade show, to discontinue disc sales starting in 2028—leading to calls for a boycott. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-era-players-lament-decline-disc.html Software Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:50:01 EDT news707108994 A U.S. federal judge ruled Thursday that sanctions imposed by the Trump administration against AI giant Anthropic were illegal, finding that the government punished the company in a dispute over military use of its technology. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-court-pentagon-anthropic-unlawful.html Business Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:08:42 EDT news707108902 Do artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT eliminate jobs, create new ones or both? There's a lot of speculation regarding this question, but little solid data in the U.S. to answer it. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-surveyed-workers-ai-job-losses.html Business Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:00:01 EDT news707042762 Wednesday's historic settlement between Meta and dozens of U.S. states could be just the start of a wave that will ripple across the social media industry, putting TikTok, YouTube and Snap under pressure to make similar changes to their apps for teens. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-meta-settlement-social-media-industry.html Internet Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:20:01 EDT news707023275 Nvidia is set to buy artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, news outlet The Information reported Wednesday, as the U.S. chipmaking giant seeks to diversify. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-nvidia-buy-ai-platform-billion.html Business Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:40:03 EDT news707023102 Kids under 18 will soon see a host of changes to their Instagram and Facebook experiences thanks to a historic $18 billion settlement Meta Platforms reached Wednesday with 48 U.S. states. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-limits-midnight-cutoff-meta-kids.html Internet Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:18:10 EDT news707023071 Meta agreed to pay a coalition of U.S. states as much as $16.7 billion and to impose sweeping new limits on how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram, according to a court filing Wednesday that ends a landmark trial in California. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-meta-states-billion-settlement-landmark.html Internet Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:40:01 EDT news706965969 The video game industry is notoriously tight-lipped about its numbers, filled with members-only metrics like wishlists, preorders and player numbers, so it can be hard to know which games have actually proven popular and turned a profit. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-fave-flop-gauging-video-game.html Business Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:20:01 EDT news706935862 Europe's largest video game show, Gamescom, opened Tuesday with the spotlight on two hit series, "Final Fantasy" and "The Witcher," as the industry seeks a boost in an era of job cuts and fierce competition. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-fantasy-witcher-spotlight-europe-gaming.html Business Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:20:05 EDT news706935547 Social media giant Meta has been in discussions with multiple U.S. states to settle a major child privacy and consumer protection case out of court, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-meta-states-discuss-settlement-landmark.html Business Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:57:58 EDT news706935463 Like past transformative technologies, from railroads and radio to the internet, artificial intelligence has attracted optimistic investors and inflated valuations, and with them speculation of a bubble market—when eager investors drive up asset prices beyond their underlying values. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-ai-tech-companies.html Business Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:40:10 EDT news706890181 Europe's largest video game show, Gamescom, opens its doors Tuesday in Cologne, with the industry hoping that the coming blockbuster "Grand Theft Auto VI" can provide a much-needed boost as studios cut jobs amid fierce competition. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-europe-gaming-bash-industry-eyes.html Business Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:00:01 EDT news706880693 A newly published study in California Management Review challenges a persistent assumption in today's AI landscape: that the strongest model inevitably becomes the dominant platform. Instead, the authors of "Three Winning AI Strategies" show that the global AI assistant market is being shaped by three distinct strategic positions—each succeeding on its own terms. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-strategic-winners-ai.html Business Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:05 EDT news706869961 Australia's recorded music industry will bar tracks wholly generated by artificial intelligence from official charts as burgeoning generative technologies threaten artists' livelihoods, a representative said on Tuesday. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-australia-music-industry-ai-generated.html Business Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:26:09 EDT news706850749 For decades, nuclear fusion has been the physicist's dream: abundant, carbon-free power drawn from the same reaction that keeps the sun burning. Now it might be shifting from scientific ambition to industrial reality. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-humanity-mimic-stars.html Business Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:20:01 EDT news706794303 Computer programmer Fei Zhaojun's boss asked him if artificial intelligence could soon replace humans in coding jobs. Two weeks later, he was laid off from his job in Beijing, together with about 160 of his colleagues. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-workers-china-impact-ai-jobs.html Business Mon, 24 Aug 2026 02:53:10 EDT news706758775 TikTok has agreed to pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit with the U.S. Department of Justice over claims that the video-sharing platform violated federal children's privacy laws, the department announced Friday. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-tiktok-pay-million-settlement-children.html Business Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:20:02 EDT news706614029 Dutch data protection authorities have fined Uber nearly $1 billion, saying the ride-hailing company used automated software to suspend driver accounts, sometimes permanently, with no human review to check for mistakes. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-uber-fined-billion-dutch-automated.html Business Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:38:42 EDT news706613893 The common belief throughout the marketing and advertising world is that generative AI can produce striking visuals, but it struggles to match the performance and brand discipline of skilled human designers. New research published in the journal Marketing Science challenges that assumption, finding that a carefully designed AI system can outperform visuals created by humans, and it can outperform designs created by another AI model that was optimized solely on the basis of aesthetics. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-ai-generated-ads-outperform-human.html Business Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:00:02 EDT news706534201 What happens when companies on digital labor platforms no longer decide for themselves how much to pay their workers, but leave this to learning algorithms? Researchers at TU Darmstadt, Bielefeld University and the Université Côte d'Azur have demonstrated in computer simulations that, where only a few firms compete with one another, such artificial intelligence (AI) systems can "learn" to set wages at a very low level without communicating with one another or having been programmed to collude. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-algorithm-wages.html Business Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:40:07 EDT news706526941 In a new paper, researchers explain how EU battery regulations can help lay the groundwork for a widely shared evidentiary system for global sustainability governance. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-eu-battery-global-sustainability-sectors.html Business Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:40:10 EDT news706462562 A former employee testified Wednesday that some of Meta's safety tools for Facebook and Instagram were "designed to fail," contradicting the company's defense strategy in a landmark trial in California. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-meta-safety-tools-witness.html Internet Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:40:01 EDT news706418542