Trump bans sales of chip design software to China
Johnson, who heads China Strategies Group, a risk consultancy, said that China had successfully leveraged…
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Meta hypes AI friends as social media’s future, but users want real connections
Meta declined to comment further on the company's vision for social media's future. In a…
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Meta argues enshittification isn’t real in bid to toss FTC monopoly trial
Further, Meta argued that the FTC did not show evidence that users sharing friends-and-family content…
Zuckerberg stifled Instagram because he loves Facebook, Instagram founder says
If the FTC wins, Instagram may be spun off from Meta's "family of apps," which…
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FTC sues Uber over difficulty of canceling subscriptions, “false” claims
Several tech executives attended the president’s inauguration ceremony, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Meta…
At monopoly trial, Zuckerberg redefined social media as texting with friends
If Meta can convince the court that the FTC's market definition is wrong and that…
FTC now has three Republicans and no Democrats instead of the typical 3-2 split
After declaring the FTC to be under White House control, Trump fired both Democratic members…
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FTC can’t afford to fight Amazon’s allegedly deceptive sign-ups after DOGE cuts
The Federal Trade Commission is moving to push back a trial set to determine if…
FTC investigates “tech censorship,” says it’s un-American and may be illegal
The Federal Trade Commission today announced a public inquiry into alleged censorship online, saying it…
FTC launches probe of Microsoft over bundling
John Lopatka, a former consultant to the FTC who now teaches antitrust law at Penn…