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A House Democrat wants Musk to answer for xAI’s polluting data centres

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Frank Pallone is demanding emissions data and a site visit over the gas turbines powering xAI’s Colossus supercomputers, near mostly Black communities in Tennessee and Mississippi. The top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee is demanding that Elon Musk account for the pollution from xAI’s data centres, escalating a fight over the gas […]

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The FTC is suing Hims & Hers for sharing patients’ health data with Meta and Snap

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The Federal Trade Commission is suing Hims & Hers, accusing the telehealth company of sharing customers’ sensitive health information with advertising platforms including Meta and Snap. The complaint, filed on 29 July and joined by Utah and California, also alleges the company charged people without proper consent and made subscriptions deliberately hard to cancel. The […]

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UK MP asks High Court to force xAI to stop Grok making sexualised images of her

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Jess Asato, the Labour MP for Lowestoft, has asked the High Court in London to force Elon Musk’s xAI to stop its Grok chatbot from generating sexualised images of her, sharpening a claim that her lawyers say could help settle how far an AI company answers for what its tools produce. Asato is seeking a […]

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Taiwan detains an Nvidia employee as its chip-smuggling probe reaches the chipmaker

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Taiwan’s investigation into smuggled AI hardware, which began with Super Micro and had spent months working through the island’s distributors, has now reached inside Nvidia itself. On July 28, prosecutors detained an Nvidia employee as part of the probe into whether restricted AI servers were being routed to China, Bloomberg first reported, the first time the […]

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Tennessee tells jury Meta knew Instagram harmed teens and stayed silent

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A jury in Nashville heard this week that Meta once concluded, in its own internal language, that the features keeping teenagers glued to Instagram were “inherently at odds with well-being”, and that the company then chose to say nothing about it. The line comes from a 2017 document that the state of Tennessee has placed […]

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Google’s rivals line up for damages after landmark EU fine

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Less than a week after Brussels handed Google its first Digital Markets Act penalty, the company’s competitors are already turning the ruling into ammunition. The European Commission fined Google €890mn on 23 July, roughly $1bn at current rates, and the rivals who have spent years chasing the search giant through European courts now see the infringement finding as […]

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Facebook and Instagram ran nudify-app ads from a single Chinese firm, watchdog says

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Awatchdog group says Meta ran thousands of advertisements for apps that digitally undress women, and that the network placing them traces back to a single company in China. The finding lands on a platform that has spent more than a year insisting it is winning this fight, even as it fields separate lawsuits over scam ads elsewhere […]

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EU charges TikTok with failing to protect children’s privacy under the DSA

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On 24 July, the European Commission issued preliminary findings that the TikTok platform breached the Digital Services Act by leaving minors’ accounts open to adults, the latest escalation in a probe that has shadowed the app since 2024. The finding is narrow but pointed. Investigators concluded that TikTok’s default settings failed to keep children’s profiles private in practice, […]

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Google fined €890M in its first Digital Markets Act penalty

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The European Commission fined Google €890 million on Thursday for breaking the Digital Markets Act, the first time Brussels has penalised the company under the rulebook it built to rein in the largest technology platforms .The penalty divides in two. A €460 million share covers search self-preferencing, where Google gave its own shopping, hotel, transport, and […]

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University of Tennessee sues Anthropic over neural network patents

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The University of Tennessee Research Foundation sued Anthropic on Monday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, accusing the artificial intelligence company of building its models on patented neural network methods it never licensed. The complaint, unsealed on Tuesday, is thought to be the first patent infringement case brought against Anthropic, and […]

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