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One Company Paid Another 100 Million Not to Compete: Zillow and Redfin Settled on the Morning of the Trial

The regulator argued the deal could have kept Redfin off the market for nine years. A settlement gets signed when...

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The court ruled that training on other people's books is legal: Anthropic paid 1.5 billion for pirating them, not for using them

A billion and a half in penalties for a company projecting two hundred billion in revenue. The judge ruled that...

24 August 2026 Read more →

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A computer was cutting drivers off from work, Uber is paying 825 million euros: it all started with one dismissed driver in France

The second largest fine in the history of European data regulation, and it is not for a leaked database. A...

24 August 2026 Read more →

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Nobody Says What They Do If the Model Escapes Control: OpenAI Scores Three Out of Five, Anthropic and Meta at the Bottom

Five leading labs rated on how ready they are if their own model tries to bypass oversight. The company that...

23 August 2026 Read more →

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A Lawsuit Claims the 300-Dollar Ring Guesses Your Sleep Like a Coin Flip: Sleep Happens in the Brain, Not on a Finger

The company advertised 95 per cent accuracy in identifying sleep stages. The plaintiffs say that takes electrodes on the scalp,...

23 August 2026 Read more →

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TikTok Pays 400 Million Dollars for the Child Accounts It Could Not Find for Seven Years: the Settlement Contains No Admission of Guilt

The same company paid 5.7 million for the same violation in 2019 and promised to stop it. Seven years later...

22 August 2026 Read more →

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Three Million Teslas Are Being Recalled in China Over a Handle Nobody Can Find: the Solution Is a Sticker

Eleven manufacturers in China are recalling vehicles because the manual emergency handle is hidden where nobody looks for it. The...

22 August 2026 Read more →

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A Third of New Web Pages Are Written by a Machine: on .gov and .edu It Is One Percent, on .com Ten Times More

Every third page published after ChatGPT carries traces of having been assembled by a machine. On government and university addresses...

21 August 2026 Read more →

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Google Is Offering Publishers a Button After Taking Away Their Traffic: a Click on a Preferred Source Is Twice as Likely

The search engine that was for years the main door to the internet is now offering sites a button with...

21 August 2026 Read more →

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Stripe paid 7.5 billion dollars for a prompt router: the letter to investors says the singularity began on 1 January

A startup worth 1.3 billion in May sold for 7.5 billion in August. The founders alone take home more than...

20 August 2026 Read more →

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Waymo's new robotaxi is a Chinese minibus: the vehicle is split into two parts to clear American customs

The Ojai is open to all passengers in three American cities. Under the sensors sits a Geely platform, and 5,000...

20 August 2026 Read more →

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Apple Has Changed Its European Commissions for the Third Time: a Flat 5 Percent Outside the Store, but Developers Are Locked In for Twelve Months

Brussels fined it 500 million euros, Apple offered a scheme critics called malicious compliance. This is the third attempt in...

19 August 2026 Read more →