IT総合 Meta settles UK ‘right to object to ad-tracking’ lawsuit by agreeing not to track plaintiff
A human rights campaigner, Tanya O’Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data f...
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IT総合 IT総合 Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets
Google has reported the results of an experiment it ran which removed news from search results for 1% of users for 2.5 m...
IT総合 ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations
OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in Europe over its viral AI chatbot’s tendency to hallucinate false inf...
IT総合 Google search, Play Store falling foul of Digital Markets Act rules, says EU
Google Search and its Play Store app marketplace are suspected of breaching the European Union’s Digital Markets A...
IT総合 EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and connected devices
The European Union has sent Apple preliminary instructions on how it expects the iPhone maker to comply with interoperab...
IT総合 Apple loses appeal against Germany’s special abuse control for Big Tech
Being a staggeringly successful big tech company does have some downsides: Apple has lost an appeal against a special ab...
IT総合 YC-backed ReactWise is applying AI to speed up drug manufacturing
Artificial intelligence continues stirring things up in chemistry. To wit: YC-backed Cambridge, U.K.-based ReactWise is ...
IT総合 UK’s internet watchdog puts storage and file-sharing services on watch over CSAM
As duties under the U.K.’s Online Safety Act (OSA) related to tackling illegal content came into force Monday, the...
IT総合 European tech industry coalition calls for ‘radical action’ on digital sovereignty — starting with buying local
A broad coalition drawn from across the ranks of Europe’s tech industry is calling for “radical action”...
IT総合 UK’s secret iCloud backdoor order triggers civil rights challenge
The U.K. government’s secret order to Apple demanding it backdoor the end-to-end encrypted version of its iCloud s...
IT総合 Apple’s appeal against UK’s secret iCloud backdoor order must be held in public, rights groups urge
Privacy rights groups have called on Apple’s legal challenge to a secret U.K. government order asking it to backdo...
IT総合 UK competition probe of mobile browsers finds Apple-Google duopoly is ‘anti-innovation’
A U.K. competition authority investigation of Apple and Google’s mobile browsers has concluded that the mobile duo...
IT総合 Meta faces publisher copyright AI lawsuit in France
Meta is facing an AI copyright publisher lawsuit in France accusing it of economic “parasitism,” Reuters rep...
IT総合 Elea AI is chasing the healthcare productivity opportunity by targeting pathology labs’ legacy systems
VC funding into AI tools for healthcare was projected to hit $11 billion last year — a headline figure that speaks...
IT総合 EU AI Act: Latest draft Code for AI model makers tiptoes towards gentler guidance for Big AI
Ahead of a May deadline to lock in guidance for providers of general purpose AI (GPAI) models on complying with provisio...
IT総合 Reshape Energy is using an acquisition playbook to drive energy upgrades for commercial real estate
Reshape Energy is betting on a more integrated approach to accelerate the decarbonization of the built environment. Foun...
IT総合 DuckDuckGo leans further into GenAI as its AI chat interface exits beta
Private search engine DuckDuckGo is leaning further into the generative AI opportunity. The non-tracking search engine h...
IT総合 EU must ‘fully’ apply its market fairness rulebook on Google, search rivals urge
The European Union is once again being urged to expand its investigation of Google under the bloc’s Digital Market...
IT総合 Apple is challenging U.K.’s iCloud encryption backdoor order
Apple is challenging a U.K. Government data access order in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the Financial Times...
IT総合 From high school science project to $18.3M: AI-accelerated enzymes are coming for fast fashion’s plastic waste
A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down...
IT総合 OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor lays out the bull case for AI agents
We still didn’t get a straight up definition of exactly what an AI agent is during Bret Taylor’s Mobile Worl...
IT総合 Mistral urges telcos to get into the hyperscaler game
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch brought a sales pitch to Mobile World Congress on Tuesday, urging delegates at the world’...
IT総合 Moonwatt secures $8.3M to dial up solar’s staying power with sodium-ion storage
The drive to decarbonize our economies through electrification and clean energy continues to generate momentum around ba...
IT総合 MWC hears two starkly divided views of AI’s impact
Two sharply different visions of AI were platformed on stage at the Mobile World Congress trade show on Monday. The true...
IT総合 Jolla founders take the wraps off an AI assistant to power up their push for privacy-friendly GenAI
Jolla, the erstwhile mobile maker turned privacy-centric AI business — via sister startup, Venho.ai — has taken the wrap...
IT総合 The TechCrunch AI glossary
Artificial intelligence is a deep and convoluted world. The scientists who work in this field often rely on jargon and l...
IT総合 University spin-out Afynia secures $5M seed to commercialize its microRNA panel test for endometriosis
Canadian biotech startup Afynia Laboratories, a spin-out from McMaster University in Ontario, has picked up $5 million i...
IT総合 EU’s top court ruling on Android Auto antitrust referral could put interoperability requests in the fast lane
Europe’s top court has weighed in to clarify the rules around interoperability requirements on Big Tech in a refer...
IT総合 UK’s internet watchdog toughens approach to deepfake porn
Ofcom, the U.K.’s internet safety regulator, has published another new draft guidance as it continues to implement...
IT総合 Meta, X approved ads containing violent anti-Muslim, antisemitic hate speech ahead of German election, study finds
Social media giants Meta and X approved ads targeting users in Germany with violent anti-Muslim and anti-Jew hate speech...