The FTC and 22 states allege Amazon quietly turned its second-price ad auction into a first-price one, charging Sponsored Products winners their full bid.
Xusheng Li took apart Microsoft Paint's watermarking code and found the invisible mark is a per-request GUID issued by a Microsoft server before any pixels exist.
Taiwan's Keelung prosecutors charged nine people, including an Nvidia Taiwan manager and two Supermicro sales managers, over 74 B300 servers that reached China.
Gallup puts local opposition at 71%. Hochul's order pauses 50 MW-plus permits for a year, and PJM's last auction billed data centers $6.3 billion.
Judge Donovan Frank refused xAI's restraining order against Minnesota's nudification-app ban, citing a three-month filing delay. The law carries $500,000 per image.
A civil-society coalition wants EU browsers to send a machine-readable privacy signal instead of showing consent pop-ups. The Council deleted the provision on June 18.
Brussels fined Google 890 million euros, its first Digital Markets Act penalty, for self-preferencing in Search and blocking app developers from steering users to cheaper deals.
The Commerce Department cleared Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, ending an 18-day export-control freeze. Anthropic redeploys Fable 5 globally on Wednesday with tighter safeguards.
The Trump administration asked OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6 to trusted partners, with the government vetting access customer by customer. Here's what that gatekeeping means.
The EU signed the US-led 'Pax Silica' pact to secure AI and chip supply chains. Here's what it commits members to, who's in, and how it ties to export controls.
Mandatory age-verification laws are turning the open internet into a checkpoint. Here's what the UK, EU, and US states actually require, and why the methods leak.
A McHenry County police chief faces felony charges for using Flock's plate-reader network to track people he knew. The case is fueling a push for warrants.
The Commerce Department paused adding DeepSeek and 100+ Chinese firms to the Entity List. Here's what the export-control blacklist does and why DeepSeek was spared.
Taiwan is considering US-aligned export controls that would treat unauthorized AI chip shipments to any Chinese customer as a crime. It's under discussion, not law yet.
Sriram Krishnan, the a16z partner who co-wrote the AI Action Plan, leaves his White House senior AI advisor role at the end of June 2026. Here's what changes.
Trump's June 2 AI executive order asks for a voluntary 30-day model review, down from a mandatory 90-day one. Here's what got cut and who pushed.
Apple agreed to hand the Competition Commission of India its local financials by June 25, removing its last shield against a fine reported at up to $38 billion.
Mark Gurman's Sunday Power On says iOS 27 will let users pick Google Cast or another protocol over AirPlay for system-level streaming, to satisfy the EU DMA.