EU digital chief warns Musk over misinformation on X about Israel-Hamas war
The European Union’s digital policy chief has said misinformation about the war between Israel and Hamas abounds on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in a letter to owner Elon Musk. X says it
UK Competition regulator to investigate £7.5bn cloud services market
Britain’s £7.5 billion cloud services market is to be investigated by the UK competition watchdog, after regulator Ofcom raised concerns about the dominance of technology giants Amazon and Microsoft. Ofcom confirmed it has referred the cloud
X (aka Twitter) removes article headlines in latest platform update
The X social media site has stopped showing headlines on articles shared on the platform. The site formerly known as Twitter now only displays an article’s lead image and a link to the story. Plans for
Tech titans have ‘very civilised discussion’ with US senators on AI, says Musk
US senators have heard from prominent technology executives and others in private on how to accomplish the potentially impossible task of passing bipartisan legislation within the next year that encourages the rapid development of artificial intelligence
Google takes on the US in biggest antitrust trial in decades
Google will confront a threat to its dominant search engine beginning on Tuesday when federal regulators launch an attempt to dismantle its internet empire in the biggest US antitrust trial in a quarter century. Over the
Google to require prominent disclosure of political ads altered with AI
Google has said political adverts using artificial intelligence (AI) must soon be accompanied by a prominent disclosure if imagery or sounds have been synthetically altered. Starting in November, just under a year before the next US
Tech giants branded online ‘gatekeepers’ in next phase of EU’s digital crackdown
The European Union has targeted Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance under new digital rules aimed at reining in the market power of online companies. The six companies were
