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Russia is “partially” restricting WhatsApp and Telegram calls, saying the apps are used “to deceive and extort money” and “in sabotage and terrorist activities” (apnews.com)
7 days ago Russia WhatsApp Terrorism

A survey of US adults: only ~40% report using AI for work and 60% say they use AI to find information at least some of the time, rising to 74% of under-30s (apnews.com)
23 days ago AI

Critics say tokenization, led by Robinhood, could undermine securities law and investor protections that have made the US financial system the envy of the world (apnews.com)
2025-7-22

Clothing inventory monetization startup CaaStle's ex-CEO Christine Hunsicker is charged with defrauding investors of more than $300M over the past six years (apnews.com)
2025-7-19 Startup

The Gates Foundation, Ballmer Group, and others form NextLadder to spend $1B over 15 years to develop AI tools for public defenders, parole officers, and more (apnews.com)
2025-7-18 AI

An advisory board convened by OpenAI recommends that the company remain a nonprofit because AI is “too consequential” to be governed by a corporation alone (apnews.com)
2025-7-18 AI

The trial for an $8B lawsuit by Meta investors against Mark Zuckerberg and other leaders opens over claims tied to the 2018 Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal (apnews.com)
2025-7-17 Zuckerberg

A Rotterdam court sentences a Russian to three years in prison for breaching international sanctions by sharing sensitive ASML info with someone in Russia (apnews.com)
2025-7-11 Russia

Canada rescinds its Digital Services Tax “in anticipation of” a trade deal with the US, with trade talks resuming; the tax was set to go into effect on Monday (apnews.com)
2025-6-30 Tax Canada

NetChoice sues Arkansas over two laws that would put limits on social media content and let parents of children who died by suicide sue over platform content (apnews.com)
2025-6-28

Gallup: ~60% of 2,232 teachers at US K-12 public schools say they used AI tools in the past school year; regular users estimate weekly time savings of 5.9 hours (apnews.com)
2025-6-25 AI

Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions and it is unclear how many times the deadline can be extended (apnews.com)
2025-6-20 Trump Ban

Harvard releases Institutional Books 1.0, a dataset for AI researchers with 242B tokens, from 394M scanned pages and 983K public domain books in 254 languages (apnews.com)
2025-6-14 AI

A federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for children under 14, saying the law is “likely unconstitutional” (apnews.com)
2025-6-4

The US Court of International Trade blocks Trump from imposing sweeping import tariffs under an emergency-powers law, finding Trump exceeded his authority (apnews.com)
2025-5-29 Trump

Nintendo reports FY 2024-25 revenue down 30% YoY to ~$8B, profit down 43% YoY to ~$1.9B, and says the Switch has 128M+ players globally, ahead of the Switch 2 (apnews.com)
2025-5-8 Nintendo

Sources: the Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS' free Direct File tax program, after IRS staff were told in mid-March to stop working on it (apnews.com)
2025-4-17 Trump Tax

In her Senate testimony, Sarah Wynn-Williams alleged Meta briefed China on US AI efforts, ignored warnings on China potentially accessing US user data, and more (apnews.com)
2025-4-10 China AI Senate

Investigation: AI-powered student monitoring tool Gaggle, used to track ~6M US student, isn't always secure, and there's no research showing it increases safety (apnews.com)
2025-3-13 AI

Resignation letter: 21 DOGE staffers, who previously worked at the USDS, say they won't use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services” (apnews.com)
2025-2-26

Huawei launches Mate XT, the industry's first tri-foldable, globally for €3,499, after its China launch in September 2024; the Mate XT has a 10.2-inch display (apnews.com)
2025-2-18 China

A US judge says Elon Musk's claims of harm from OpenAI are a “stretch”, but she wouldn't stop the case from moving to trial as soon as next year (apnews.com)
2025-2-5 Elon Musk

Trump fires Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, who was one of the few remaining holdovers from the Biden administration (apnews.com)
2025-2-2 Trump

Trump signs an EO to develop AI systems “free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas”, revoking Biden policies that “act as barriers” to innovation (apnews.com)
2025-1-24 Trump AI

Pakistan's parliament passes a controversial bill giving the government sweeping controls on social media, including prison terms for spreading “disinformation” (apnews.com)
2025-1-24

Bitcoin passes $108K ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, after hitting $100K in December 2024 before dropping to around $90K (apnews.com)
2025-1-20 Trump Bitcoin

During oral arguments, SCOTUS seemed open to a Texas law requiring age checks to view online porn, but could send the case back to a lower court (apnews.com)
2025-1-16 Texas

Under new Biden rules, countries with caps on compute power are restricted to 50,000 advanced GPUs, which could grow to 100K in deals with the US government (apnews.com)
2025-1-14

As Amazon Prime Video wraps up its third season streaming NFL games, a look at its use of AI and “Prime Vision with Next Gen Stats” during broadcasts (apnews.com)
2025-1-12 Amazon AI

Japan says Chinese hacking group MirrorFace is linked to 200+ cyberattacks from 2019 to 2024 targeting the country's national security and advanced tech data (apnews.com)
2025-1-9 China Japan

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