<p>A U.K. competition authority investigation of Apple and Google&#8217;s mobile browsers has concluded that the mobile duopoly&#8217;s policies are &#8220;holding back innovation&#8221; and could also be limiting economic growth. &#8220;Mobile browsers are apps which provide the primary gateway for consumers to access the web on their mobile devices, and hence for businesses to reach them [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Since Donald Trump Jr. joined VC firm 1789 Capital after his father won the election, he&#8217;s been busy monetizing the Make America Great Again (MAGA) ecosystem. He’s been making bets in media, pharmaceutical, guns, and crypto while pushing against environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), the Financial Times reported. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>President Donald Trump said he will label violence against Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism, per a transcript shared by the White House pool reporters, a sign of deepening ties with Elon Musk. “Tesla Takeovers” have been breaking out across the globe at Tesla dealerships as people protest what they see as a hostile takeover of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ahead of a May deadline to finalize guidance for providers of general purpose AI (GPAI) models on complying with provisions of the EU AI Act, a third draft of the Code of Practice was published on Tuesday. The Code has been in development since last year, and this draft is expected to be the last. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In an interview with Fox&#8217;s Larry Kudlow on Monday, billionaire Elon Musk admitted that his involvement with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Donald Trump&#8217;s initiative to reduce federal spending, is making it tougher to run his many businesses: X, Tesla, xAI, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Neuralink, and Starlink. &#8220;How are you running your other [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk lost the latest battle in his lawsuit against OpenAI this week, but a federal judge appears to have given Musk — and others who oppose OpenAI&#8217;s for-profit conversion — reasons to be hopeful. Musk&#8217;s suit against OpenAI, which also names Microsoft and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as defendants, accuses OpenAI of abandoning its [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The U.S. Department of Justice is still calling for Google to sell its web browser Chrome, according to a Friday court filing.  The DOJ first proposed that Google should sell Chrome last year, under then-President Joe Biden, and it seems to be sticking with that plan under the second Trump administration. The department is, however, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google has quietly updated the web page for its Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology (RAI-HCT) team, the team charged with conducting research into AI safety, fairness, and explainability, to scrub mentions of &#8220;diversity&#8221; and &#8220;equity.&#8221; A previous version of the page used language such as &#8220;marginalized communities,&#8221; &#8220;diverse,&#8221; &#8220;underrepresented groups,&#8221; and &#8220;equity&#8221; to describe [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A federal judge is allowing an AI-related copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward, although he dismissed part of the suit. In Kadrey vs. Meta, authors — including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Ta-Nehisi Coates — have alleged that Meta has violated their intellectual property rights by using their books to train its Llama AI [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Just over two months into 2025, the number of pending AI bills in the U.S. has grown to 781, according to an online tracking tool. The tool, maintained by consulting firm MultiState, shows that the number of pending U.S. bills pertaining to AI now exceeds the total number of AI bills proposed in all of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Russian propaganda may be influencing certain answers from AI chatbots, including OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT and Meta&#8217;s Meta AI, according to a new report. NewsGuard, a company that develops rating systems for news and information websites, claims to have found evidence that a Moscow-based network named &#8220;Pravda&#8221; is publishing false claims to affect the responses of AI [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A day after quietly removing Biden-era AI policy commitments from its website, Anthropic submitted recommendations to the White House for a national AI policy that the company says &#8220;better prepare[s] America to capture the economic benefits&#8221; of AI. The company&#8217;s suggestions include preserving the AI Safety Institute established under the Biden administration, directing NIST to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The UK is no longer recommending the use of encryption for at-risk groups following its iCloud backdoor demands</p>

<p>President Donald Trump has delayed tariffs on automobile imports from Canada and Mexico for one month after requests from executives at the Big Three automakers &#8212; General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis &#8212; with the expectation that automakers will move any offshore operations to the United States by April 2. The reprieve, which Politico first reported, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In a policy paper published Wednesday, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks said that the U.S. should not pursue a Manhattan Project-style push to develop AI systems with &#8220;superhuman&#8221; intelligence, also known as AGI. The paper, titled &#8220;Superintelligence Strategy,&#8221; asserts that an aggressive [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The individuals are accused of hacking over 100 U.S. organizations over the course of a decade</p>

<p>Anthropic has quietly removed from its website several voluntary commitments the company made in conjunction with the Biden administration in 2023 to promote safe and &#8220;trustworthy&#8221; AI. The commitments, which included pledges to share information on managing AI risks across industry and government and research on AI bias and discrimination, were deleted from Anthropic&#8217;s transparency [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The European Union is once again being urged to expand its investigation of Google under the bloc&#8217;s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The big aim of the EU&#8217;s flagship competition reform &#8212; which came into force last spring &#8212; was to level the digital playing field by forcing platform giants into fairer dealing with rivals and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Britain&#8217;s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), said on Wednesday that Microsoft&#8217;s partnership with OpenAI doesn&#8217;t qualify for an investigation under the merger provisions of the U.K.&#8217;s Enterprise Act 2002, the country&#8217;s anticompetitive practices law. &#8220;Overall, taking into account all of the available evidence [&#8230;] the CMA does not believe that Microsoft currently [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple is challenging a U.K. government data access order in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the Financial Times reports. The order targeted iCloud backups that are protected by end-to-end encryption. Last month, press leaks revealed the existence of the January order asking Apple to build a backdoor in iCloud&#8217;s encrypted backups. U.K. officials are exercising [&hellip;]</p>