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    Why ‘the 26 words that made the internet’ may not protect Big Tech from legal liability in the age of AI

    Section 230 protected social media companies from liability for harmful content. It may not apply to AI chatbot outputs, legal experts say.

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    October 3, 2025

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    Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and other tech giants are cutting back on headcount—but their spending on hardware and real estate keeps soaring

    By Nicolas Rapp and Matthew Heimer
    May 19, 2024
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    Thousands of North Koreans stole Americans’ identities and took remote-work tech jobs at Fortune 500 companies, DOJ says

    By Eric Tucker and The Associated Press
    May 16, 2024
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    Google, Apple, and Microsoft make their products friendlier to users with disabilities

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    May 16, 2024
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    There’s a new TikTok bid brewing—and this one aims to rewrite how social media works

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    May 15, 2024
    OpenAI CTO Mira Murati
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    OpenAI and Google lean in to AI personal assistants. Is this AI’s killer app?

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    May 14, 2024
    OpenAI’s leap forward in human-like AI assistants underscores Apple’s growing peril
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    OpenAI’s leap forward in human-like AI assistants underscores Apple’s growing peril

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    May 14, 2024
    Apple promises ‘good faith’ negotiations with unions, but its history suggests otherwise
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    Apple promises ‘good faith’ negotiations with unions, but its history suggests otherwise

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    May 13, 2024
    Inside two ‘PayPal Mafia’ members’ plans to turn PayPal’s meteoric rise and internal drama into a Hollywood movie 
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    Inside two ‘PayPal Mafia’ members’ plans to turn PayPal’s meteoric rise and internal drama into a Hollywood movie 

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    May 10, 2024
    Rabbit R1 AI assistant device
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    You don’t need an AI assistant in a box like the new Rabbit R1—unless it’s your smartphone

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    May 2, 2024
    Big Tech is pouring hundreds of billions into AI. Should it also get to decide if the technology is ‘safe’? 
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    Big Tech is pouring hundreds of billions into AI. Should it also get to decide if the technology is ‘safe’? 

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    April 30, 2024
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    Social networks have too much political influence, Americans tell researchers

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    April 30, 2024
    Max Schrems, Austrian online privacy activist, poses for a picture in Vienna on April 16, 2021.
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    Meta archnemesis turns his attention to OpenAI’s ‘hallucinations’

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    April 29, 2024
    Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, testifies during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis," in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2024.
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    You can’t blame investors for being skeptical of Meta’s enormous AI outlay

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    April 25, 2024
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    The race for human-AI interaction usage data is on—and the stakes are high

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    April 24, 2024
    President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at Hillsborough Community College’s Dale Mabry campus on April 23, 2024, in Tampa, Florida.
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    What happens next for TikTok now that Biden has signed divest-or-ban law?

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    April 24, 2024
    Mistral cofounder and CEO Arthur Mensch
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    AI will change the world. But that doesn’t mean investors will get rich in the process

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    April 23, 2024
    4 things to watch in tech earnings
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    4 things to watch in tech earnings

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    April 23, 2024
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    Elon Musk braces for bad Tesla results as EV price war rages

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    April 22, 2024
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    No data mining in Colorado minds as state passes U.S.’s first brainwave privacy law

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    April 18, 2024
    Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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    ‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram

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    April 17, 2024
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    After a failed Linux backdoor attempt grabs headlines, open-source leaders warn of more attacks

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    April 16, 2024
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    U.S. House votes to drastically expand Section 702 surveillance program rather than reining it in

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    April 15, 2024
    Sarah Cardell, chief executive officer of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
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    U.K.’s antitrust watchdog sounds the alarm over Big Tech AI grip as it uncovers an ‘interconnected web’

    By Tiffany Tsoi, Shona Ghosh and Bloomberg
    April 12, 2024
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    Finance returns to office as Wall Street North (NYC) and South (Miami) blow other markets out of the water with cubicles over 80% full

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    April 11, 2024
    US House Speaker Mike Johnson
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    Time is running out for Section 702, which lets U.S. intelligence demand data from Big Tech

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    April 11, 2024
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    Social media bans are old news—now the U.K. is considering banning phone sales to kids under 16

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    April 10, 2024
    Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) departs the Senate Chambers on March 23, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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    TikTok divestment bill gets a boost from Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell

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    April 9, 2024
    Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
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    The U.S. may finally get a federal privacy law to rival Europe’s GDPR

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    April 8, 2024
    Palestinians living in al-Maghazi Refugee Camp collect the usable items among the rubble of the destroyed buildings following an Israeli attack in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on April 4, 2024.
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    Israel’s reported use of AI in its Gaza war may explain thousands of civilian deaths

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    April 4, 2024
    Patrick Paul (Pat) Gelsinger, CEO of Intel.
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    Intel’s turnaround plan won’t bear fruit anytime soon

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    April 3, 2024

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