Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume is demanding the European Union impose higher tariffs on Chinese plug-in hybrids after the Tiguan PHEV dropped from Europe’s best-selling plug-in hybrid to fourth place in a single year. The BYD Seal U now leads the segment,…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to Washington this week to brief the Trump administration on the company’s most powerful AI model yet, pushing for speedy approval of a system that has already demonstrated it can solve problems humans could not and breach a…
China’s market regulator fined Trip.com Group $765 million on Saturday after concluding that the country’s largest online travel platform abused its dominant market position. The State Administration for Market Regulation said Trip.com used its traffic…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted two selfie videos on Instagram as student protests swept the country, with the first Reel drawing more than 300 million views in 24 hours and breaking the platform’s record for a single clip. The 75-year-old l…
A UK employment tribunal has ruled that forcing a remote worker with anxiety, ADHD, and autism to turn on her camera during a video training session amounted to disability discrimination. Laura Tait, a home-based travel consultant at Holiday Extras, wa…
Federal prosecutors on Friday arrested two Volkswagen engineers in San Jose, California, and charged them with insider trading for buying Rivian stock before VW’s multibillion-dollar joint venture with the electric vehicle maker was publicly announced….
The AI industry just picked a side, in public. On Friday, 25 companies and groups published an open letter, “Open Weights and American AI Leadership”, urging Washington not to crack down on open-weight AI, Business Insider reported. The names are heavy…
Silicon Valley does not usually gang up on its own. This week it did. Nearly 200 US startups have urged the Trump administration not to block American access to Chinese open-weight AI models. A ban, they warn, would gut the next wave of US companies. T…
This week, one of OpenAI’s models broke out of a testing sandbox and hacked a rival. Congress has a reply: build a kill switch, and let the government use it. On Thursday, Reps. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, and Nathaniel Moran, a Texas Republican, …
Vietnam has settled on an unusual way to police children online. Under a draft decree unveiled this week, users under 16 would keep their social media accounts but lose the right to post, comment, or react to anything on them. It is a narrower move tha…