Microsoft’s faltering $69 billion bid to buy the video game company Activision Blizzard received a glimmer of hope on Monday when European Union regulators approved what would be the largest […]
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Back to news homeWhite House Unveils Initiatives to Reduce Risks of AI
The White House on Thursday will host its first gathering of chief executives of companies building artificial intelligence since a boom in A.I.-powered chatbots has prompted growing calls to regulate […]
Noncompete Clauses Get Tighter, and TV Newsrooms Feel the Grip
Beth Johnson, a television talent agent, says she had to move from exclusively representing clients to more training and consulting, since newsroom employees were no longer able to move around […]
Broadcast News Is at Center of Fight Over Noncompete Clauses
Beth Johnson, a television talent agent, says she had to move from exclusively representing clients to more training and consulting, since newsroom employees were no longer able to move around […]
F.T.C. Intensifies Investigation of Twitter’s Privacy Practices
In November, three senior executives responsible for overseeing security, privacy and compliance resigned from Twitter, a day before a deadline for Twitter to submit a response to an F.T.C. demand […]
As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology
In November 2016, the Senate Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness held the first congressional hearing on A.I., with Mr. Musk’s warnings cited twice by lawmakers. During the hearing, academics […]
Few Americans Understand Online Privacy and Tracking, Report Says
Many people in the United States would like to control the information that companies can learn about them online. Yet when presented with a series of true-or-false questions about how […]
Judge Is Said to Let Meta’s Virtual Reality Deal Move Forward
The lawsuit was the first of the cases developed entirely under Ms. Khan, a legal scholar who rose to prominence after she wrote a critique of Amazon that went viral, […]
GoodRx Leaked User Health Data to Facebook and Google, F.T.C. Says
Millions of Americans have used GoodRx, a drug discount app, to search for lower prices on prescriptions like antidepressants, H.I.V. medications and treatments for sexually transmitted diseases at their local […]
FTC slaps $1.5M fine on GoodRx for sharing users’ health data with Facebook and Google
Online pharmacy GoodRx has agreed to pay $1.5 million in civil penalties for years of sharing the health information of consumers with third parties like Facebook, Google, and Criteo for […]