A US federal court has preliminarily approved a $7.85 million settlement in an antitrust class action alleging that Sony monopolised the market for digital PlayStation games by eliminating competition from third-party retailers. The settlement, approve…
Norway will ban the use of generative AI tools by elementary school children starting from the new school year in late August, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced on Friday. The ban applies to students in first through seventh grade, covering age…
The number of fusion startups that have raised more than $100 million has reached 17, according to a TechCrunch tally published Thursday, with total private investment in the sector now exceeding $13 billion. Two of the most recent rounds, Helion Energ…
When Washington ordered Anthropic to shut off access to its most advanced AI model, it did not shut off everyone. Some of the organisations Anthropic had chosen early to test Mythos have kept their access to a preview of the system, even as other versi…
Meta has signed new deals to draw computing power from Crusoe, the data-centre developer, adding to the vast and growing pile of infrastructure the company is assembling for its AI ambitions. The agreements cover two sites, in Childress, Texas, and War…
Hyundai is preparing to buy out the last piece of Boston Dynamics it does not already own. The South Korean carmaker plans to acquire SoftBank’s remaining 9.65% stake in the US robotics firm for $325m, a deal that would make the maker of the Atlas huma…
Alibaba Cloud on Wednesday launched its first data centres in France, opening two availability zones in Paris as part of a broader push into a European market that is rapidly reassessing its dependency on foreign cloud providers. The facilities make Fr…
Meta is asking Congress for something it cannot win in court: protection from the lawsuits that accuse its products of harming children. The company has been lobbying lawmakers for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to platforms such as Instagr…
Bulgaria’s export control authority licensed a Sofia-based surveillance firm to sell phone-tracking tools, interception systems, and monitoring infrastructure to intelligence agencies in countries with documented records of suppressing dissent. The lic…
Liberty Bank, a 201-year-old mutual bank headquartered in Middletown, Connecticut, announced the launch of an AI Center of Excellence alongside a strategic partnership with Flare AI. The centre will serve as the hub for AI strategy, governance, and exe…