<p>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has removed over 300 blog posts published during the agency&#8217;s leadership under former chair Lina Khan, Wired reports. These include posts that are critical of companies like Amazon and Microsoft for their handling of customer data. The FTC did not respond to a request for comment. As FTC chair during [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Being a staggeringly successful big tech company does have some downsides: Apple has lost an appeal against a special abuse control regime that Germany&#8217;s competition watchdog applied to it last year. The iPhone maker can expect to continue to face bespoke competition controls in a major European market, in addition to other similar laws (such [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Update: the deal is done at $32 billion, in cash. Read more here. Google&#8217;s parent company Alphabet is again in advanced talks to acquire cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz, a person familiar with the deal told TechCrunch. The two companies were close to securing a deal at a $23 billion valuation last summer, but the transaction [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, no longer has to stay in France. A source told AFP that the investigating judge in charge of Durov’s case has accepted a request to modify the conditions of his supervision. “As you may have heard, I’ve returned to Dubai after spending several months in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Marko Elez emailed a spreadsheet containing personal information to two Trump administration officials.</p>

<p>As duties under the U.K.&#8217;s Online Safety Act (OSA) related to tackling illegal content came into force Monday, the internet watchdog, Ofcom, said it has launched a new enforcement program focused on online storage and file-sharing services. The regulator said its evidence shows that file-sharing and file-storage services are &#8220;particularly susceptible&#8221; to being used for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A broad coalition drawn from across the ranks of Europe&#8217;s tech industry is calling for &#8220;radical action&#8221; from European Union lawmakers to shrink reliance on foreign-owned digital infrastructure and services to bolster the bloc&#8217;s economic prospects, resilience, and security in increasingly fraught geopolitical times. In an open letter to both European Commission President Ursula von [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta won a legal victory this week against Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former employee who recently published a memoir of her time at the company titled &#8220;Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.&#8221; An arbitrator ruled that the company has made a valid argument that Wynn-Williams, who worked at Facebook (now Meta) [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Thursday, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 16 American technology firms, including Google and OpenAI, asking for past communications with the&nbsp;Biden administration that might suggest the former president &#8220;coerced or colluded&#8221; with companies to &#8220;censor lawful speech&#8221; in AI products. The Trump administration&#8217;s top technology advisors previously signaled they would pick [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The U.K. government&#8217;s secret order to Apple demanding it backdoor the end-to-end encrypted version of its iCloud storage service has now been challenged by two civil rights groups, Liberty and Privacy International, which filed complaints Thursday. They called the order &#8220;unacceptable and disproportionate&#8221; and warned of &#8220;global consequences&#8221; as the access order is thought to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>President Trump’s family has been weighing an investment in Binance.US, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The investment would come just a couple of years after Binance’s U.S. arm pleaded guilty to violating anti-money laundering regulation. As part of that guilty plea, Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao, better known as CZ, paid a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Y Combinator, one of the world&#8217;s most prolific startup accelerators, sent a letter on Wednesday urging the Trump administration to openly support Europe&#8217;s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a wide-ranging piece of legislation that aims to crack open Big Tech&#8217;s market power. The DMA designates six tech companies as &#8220;gatekeepers&#8221; to the internet — Alphabet, Amazon, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google, following on the heels of OpenAI, published a policy proposal in response to the Trump administration&#8217;s call for a national &#8220;AI Action Plan.&#8221; The tech giant endorsed weak copyright restrictions on AI training, as well as &#8220;balanced&#8221; export controls that &#8220;protect national security while enabling U.S. exports and global business operations.&#8221; &#8220;The U.S. needs [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Rumman Chowdhury, a data scientist, nonprofit founder, and former director of Twitter&#8217;s machine ethics team, had strong words for Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during a panel at SXSW on Thursday. &#8220;When your funding is frozen and you don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;re gonna be fired, and there&#8217;s this, like, absolutely unhinged [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The accounts were frozen in February, but documents filed today make public details which had previously been unknown.</p>

<p>In a new policy proposal, OpenAI describes Chinese AI lab DeepSeek as &#8220;state-subsidized&#8221; and &#8220;state-controlled,&#8221; and recommends that the U.S. government consider banning models from the outfit and similar People&#8217;s Republic of China (PRC)-supported operations. The proposal, a submission&nbsp;for the Trump administration&#8217;s &#8220;AI Action Plan&#8221; initiative, claims that DeepSeek&#8217;s models, including its R1 &#8220;reasoning&#8221;

<p>Privacy rights groups have called on Apple&#8217;s legal challenge to a secret U.K. government order asking it to backdoor an end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) version of its iCloud storage service to be heard in public, rather than behind closed doors. The existence of the order emerged via press reports last month. Apple went on to confirm [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In a proposal for the U.S. government&#8217;s &#8220;AI Action Plan,&#8221; the Trump administration&#8217;s initiative to reshape American AI policy, OpenAI called for a U.S. copyright strategy that &#8220;[preserves] American AI models&#8217; ability to learn from copyrighted material.&#8221; &#8220;America has so many AI startups, attracts so much investment, and has made so many research breakthroughs largely [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Huawei is at the center of a fresh scandal in Europe, following reports that lobbyists representing the Chinese tech titan bribed members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to curry favor with lawmakers. After being cast out of the U.S. market over fears that its telecommunications equipment could be infiltrated by the Chinese government for nefarious [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A judge in Singapore granted bail to three men suspected of deceiving suppliers of server computers that may contain Nvidia chips affected by U.S. export rules that bar the sale of them to certain countries, as a route to halting them being sold to organizations in China. The move comes nearly two weeks after the [&hellip;]</p>