The European Union has put plans to fine Google on hold. The commission in charge of doling out punishment for digital infractions is reportedly worried that fining the U.S. tech giant for allegedly abusing its dominance in online advertising could provoke U.S. President Donald Trump. Bloomberg and Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources, that E.U. officials […]
OpenAI Would Totally Buy Chrome From Google, in Case Anyone Was Wondering
As the federal government and Google work through potential remedies for the company’s illegal monopoly over online search, OpenAI is interested in purchasing the Chrome browser, should the court order it be sold off to loosen Google’s grip on the market. According to Bloomberg, Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of product for ChatGPT, signaled the AI […]
Meta Pissed Off Everyone With Poorly Redacted Docs
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is in the middle of a fight to maintain its social media monopoly-like status, and it’s not making many friends along the way. According to The Verge, the company got an earful in the form of lawyer-submitted smackdowns from fellow tech giants who were less than thrilled over the fact that Meta’s […]
Apple Snoozed, so Now It Might Lose Google as Its Default Search Engine (and $22 Billion a Year)
We’ve all overslept an alarm or missed a deadline, but has it ever cost you $20 billion? According to Ars Technica, it may have just happened to Apple, which apparently suffered from some decision paralysis that pissed off a federal judge and might cost the company its lucrative agreement with Google to make the company’s […]
Trump’s FTC Deletes Blogs Critical of Amazon and Microsoft
For a brief period, maybe even just a second, it seemed as though the populism built into the Donald Trump campaign just might preserve the Lina Khan theory of Big Tech regulation at the Federal Trade Commission. Turns out, not so much. Wired first reported that more than 300 blog posts critical of companies like […]