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The US Department of Homeland Security proposed a rule on Monday. It would charge employers $103,265 for a new H-1B visa. Daniel Wiessner reported the filing for Reuters. A federal judge blocked a similar fee in June, calling it unlawful. H-1B visas let US employers hire foreign workers trained in specialty fields, and the technology […]
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A Twitch streamer sued Twitch and Amazon on 20 August over the use of livestreams to train Amazon’s generative AI. The complaint runs to 37 pages. Counsel filed it in the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. The case number is 3:26-cv-08721. Its central documentary claim concerns a contract. Twitch announced an opt-out setting […]
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Thomson Reuters launched its first proprietary large language model on Monday. The company calls it Thomson. It says it spent $40mn on talent and compute to train the model, and that it began from what its announcement describes as “a strong open-source foundation”. The announcement does not say which foundation. Its chief technology officer named […]
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The Dutch data protection authority has decided to fine Uber €825mn, or about $966mn, for shutting down driver accounts by automated systems without telling the drivers properly. It is the second-largest penalty ever issued under the General Data Protection Regulation. Reuters reported the decision after reviewing a document dated 17 August. The regulator, known as […]
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A federal judge has thrown out seven economic espionage convictions against the former Google engineer Linwei Ding, on the grounds that prosecutors never proved he was working for China. Seven trade secret theft convictions stand. Judge Vince Chhabria found the evidence sufficient to show that Ding took what he took, but insufficient to show that […]
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Disney asked a federal judge to hold an emergency hearing by Tuesday over the Federal Communications Commission’s move to review the licences of its eight ABC-owned stations. The Justice Department told the court on Thursday that there is no hurry. The government’s argument is procedural and, on its face, mild. A hearing designation order would […]
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A 15-year-old from New Jersey has dropped her case against Meta, Google, and Snap seven weeks before it was due to be heard in Los Angeles. Her lawyer said she wanted to get on with her life. The case was one of three bellwethers set for trial in October in California state court, chosen to […]
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Opening statements in the states’ case against Meta begin today in Oakland. The court seated a jury last week. The trial should run about five weeks. Twenty-nine state attorneys general brought the case in 2023. Lawyers for California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey will argue it. They allege that Meta designed Facebook and Instagram to […]
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The Bundeskartellamt found Apple held rival apps to a stricter consent standard than its own. The agreed fix, neutral prompts and no double hurdle, applies across almost all of the EU. Apple has agreed to overhaul the way its iPhones ask people for permission to be tracked, after Germany’s competition regulator concluded that the company […]
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The decision lands about two weeks before the ban was due to start, Bloomberg reported. Platforms were to stop creating accounts for under-15s from 1 September. Parliament gave the law final approval on 21 July. The desk covered that final vote at the time. What the Council ruled The Council struck down the ban on […]
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