Blog Posts
Elon Musk Sues Advertisers for Boycotting X
Elon Musk has sued the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and some of its members, claiming they have deprived X, formerly Twitter, of billions of dollars of advertising. Musk has brought the antitrust lawsuit against GARM, naming its members CVS, Unilever, Mars, and the Danish energy company Ørsted as co-defendants, claiming the group unlawfully came together to...
OpenAI Backs California’s AI Transparency Bill
OpenAI has come out in support of a new bill in California that would require companies to better identify content created or augmented with generative AI. Bill AB3211, drafted by Buffy Wicks, is one of 65 bills drafted in California this legislative season that target regulating AI. Bill AB3211 aims to ensure that companies “apply provenance data to synthetic content...
Appeals Court Says TikTok Must Face Lawsuit for Child’s Death
A US Appeals court has ruled that TikTok and its parent company ByteDance must face a lawsuit regarding a 10-year-old girl's death. The mother of 10-year-old Nylah Anderson sued TikTok following her daughter's death in 2021 after she copied the “Blackout Challenge,” in which TikTok users were posting videos of people choking themselves until they passed out and daring other...
Apple Announces Further Changes in Europe
Apple has announced several changes it will be rolling out in Europe before the end of the year to further comply with the Digital Market Act (DMA) requirements. Apple says in its article announcing the changes that “these updates come from our ongoing and continuing dialogue with the European Commission about compliance.” Once the iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 launch later this...
Authors Sue Anthropic for Copyright Infringement
A group of authors has come together to file a class action lawsuit against Anthropic for copyright infringement related to the data it used to train its AI models. Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson, authors of published books, allege that Anthropic illegally downloaded and copied their work. The August 19 complaint claims that “Anthropic has built a...
UK Accepts Meta’s Proposal in Antitrust Case
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has accepted Meta’s updated proposal to change how it uses advertising data within Facebook Marketplace. Meta will implement a new data control that lets advertisers placing ads on Facebook choose whether Facebook uses their data to improve Facebook Marketplace. Meta has already implemented an option that lets advertisers...
Google Must Change App Store Practices
A US Judge is set to rule on actions Google must take to allow for healthy competition concerning its Google Play app store. The ruling follows a 2020 lawsuit filed by Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite. In it, Epic Games claims that Google's practices related to its app store stifle competition and breach antitrust laws. Epic Games also submitted a similar lawsuit against...
Google’s New Pixel 9 Phones Are AI-Powered
Google announced the release of its Pixel 9 smartphone series, which contains a variety of new AI capabilities. The suite of phones includes the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and Pixel 9 Pro Fold, which range in price from $799 to $1099. The announcement came rather early. This move is likely to allow Google to announce its real-world AI capabilities ahead of Apple,...
FTC Strengthens Rules to Curb Fake Reviews
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a ruling designed to reduce the number of false reviews for products and services in an effort to protect consumers. This ruling will empower the FTC to seek civil penalties against violators, which the agency believes necessary to effectively deter wrongdoers. The ruling prohibits a number of activities that lead to...
US Court Rules Against Google in Antitrust Lawsuit
A US Federal court ruled that Google has breached antitrust laws over its practices related to search engines. The landmark ruling states that Google’s distribution agreements breached competition laws in the US, going as far as to say that the tech giant is “a monopolist” and “acted as one to maintain its monopoly.” The decision also alleges that Google’s dominant position...
Fiverr Survey Reveals Creative Workers Are Unhappy
Fiverr company Working Not Working (WNW) recently released the results of its (Un)Happiness Survey. The survey gathered data on how the creative workforce feels in the current job climate. The survey highlighted a general discontent within the creative workforce, with more than half of people (56%) holding full-time jobs planning to leave within the year and 40% intending...
UK Launches Inquiry Into Amazon and Anthropic Partnership
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) released a notice that it launched a phase 1 investigation into the partnership between Amazon and Anthropic. The CMA now has until October 4 to provide an outcome of this first phase. This could go one of two ways: the CMA can decide that the partnership has no negative impact on competition in the UK or the CMA can decide to...
Canada Investigates Ticketmaster Over Breach
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has announced that it has launched an investigation into the cybersecurity incident that impacted Ticketmaster. The incident itself was discovered in May by Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, in which an “unauthorized party” was able to access customer information between April 2 and May 18. The data was stored in a cloud...
CrowdStrike Sued by Shareholders Over Outage
Shareholders have sued CrowdStrike following the outage that crashed 8 million computers on July 19. The class action suit claims that CrowdStrike defrauded its shareholders by not being transparent regarding its software testing and the associated risk when deploying software. CrowdStrike’s share price fell by more than 32% in the 12 days following the outage, removing $25...
Wix Releases AI Tools To Create Blogs
Wix has announced a new release of an AI-powered suite of tools that will help its users create and maintain their blogs. Einat Halperin, GM of Wix Blog, said: “One of the most effective tools to increase conversions, promote new products and events, and establish trust with customers are blogs.” Wix says that sites with active and regularly updated blogs have 86% more...