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Canada rescinds its Digital Services Tax “in anticipation of” a trade deal with the US, with trade talks resuming; the tax was set to go into effect on Monday (apnews.com)
2025-6-30 Tax Canada

NetChoice sues Arkansas over two laws that would put limits on social media content and let parents of children who died by suicide sue over platform content (apnews.com)
2025-6-28

Gallup: ~60% of 2,232 teachers at US K-12 public schools say they used AI tools in the past school year; regular users estimate weekly time savings of 5.9 hours (apnews.com)
2025-6-25 AI

Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions and it is unclear how many times the deadline can be extended (apnews.com)
2025-6-20 Trump Ban

Harvard releases Institutional Books 1.0, a dataset for AI researchers with 242B tokens, from 394M scanned pages and 983K public domain books in 254 languages (apnews.com)
2025-6-14 AI

A federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for children under 14, saying the law is “likely unconstitutional” (apnews.com)
2025-6-4

The US Court of International Trade blocks Trump from imposing sweeping import tariffs under an emergency-powers law, finding Trump exceeded his authority (apnews.com)
2025-5-29 Trump

Nintendo reports FY 2024-25 revenue down 30% YoY to ~$8B, profit down 43% YoY to ~$1.9B, and says the Switch has 128M+ players globally, ahead of the Switch 2 (apnews.com)
2025-5-8 Nintendo

Sources: the Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS' free Direct File tax program, after IRS staff were told in mid-March to stop working on it (apnews.com)
2025-4-17 Trump Tax

In her Senate testimony, Sarah Wynn-Williams alleged Meta briefed China on US AI efforts, ignored warnings on China potentially accessing US user data, and more (apnews.com)
2025-4-10 China AI Senate

Investigation: AI-powered student monitoring tool Gaggle, used to track ~6M US student, isn't always secure, and there's no research showing it increases safety (apnews.com)
2025-3-13 AI

Resignation letter: 21 DOGE staffers, who previously worked at the USDS, say they won't use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services” (apnews.com)
2025-2-26

Huawei launches Mate XT, the industry's first tri-foldable, globally for €3,499, after its China launch in September 2024; the Mate XT has a 10.2-inch display (apnews.com)
2025-2-18 China

A US judge says Elon Musk's claims of harm from OpenAI are a “stretch”, but she wouldn't stop the case from moving to trial as soon as next year (apnews.com)
2025-2-5 Elon Musk

Trump fires Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, who was one of the few remaining holdovers from the Biden administration (apnews.com)
2025-2-2 Trump

Trump signs an EO to develop AI systems “free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas”, revoking Biden policies that “act as barriers” to innovation (apnews.com)
2025-1-24 Trump AI

Pakistan's parliament passes a controversial bill giving the government sweeping controls on social media, including prison terms for spreading “disinformation” (apnews.com)
2025-1-24

Bitcoin passes $108K ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, after hitting $100K in December 2024 before dropping to around $90K (apnews.com)
2025-1-20 Trump Bitcoin

During oral arguments, SCOTUS seemed open to a Texas law requiring age checks to view online porn, but could send the case back to a lower court (apnews.com)
2025-1-16 Texas

Under new Biden rules, countries with caps on compute power are restricted to 50,000 advanced GPUs, which could grow to 100K in deals with the US government (apnews.com)
2025-1-14

As Amazon Prime Video wraps up its third season streaming NFL games, a look at its use of AI and “Prime Vision with Next Gen Stats” during broadcasts (apnews.com)
2025-1-12 Amazon AI

Japan says Chinese hacking group MirrorFace is linked to 200+ cyberattacks from 2019 to 2024 targeting the country's national security and advanced tech data (apnews.com)
2025-1-9 China Japan

Las Vegas police say the man who exploded a Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel used ChatGPT to help plan the attack, including to seek info on explosive targets (apnews.com)
2025-1-8 Trump Vegas

Apple to pay $95 million to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping (apnews.com)
2025-1-4 Apple

The EU sends TikTok an urgent request for information on Russia's role in Romanian election turmoil, a day after ordering it to retain all election-related data (apnews.com)
2024-12-7 Russia Romania

Delivery Hero's food delivery app Glovo says it will move to an employment-based model for its drivers in Spain, and anticipates a €100M earnings hit in 2025 (apnews.com)
2024-12-3 Spain

Interpol arrested 1,006 suspects in 19 African countries from September 2 to October 31 to clamp down on cybercrime that left 35,000 victims with $193M losses (apnews.com)
2024-11-27 Africa

SCOTUS agrees to hear a challenge against the FCC's $8B per year program to subsidize phone and internet services in schools, libraries, and rural areas (apnews.com)
2024-11-23

Filing: the US DOJ asks a federal judge to force Google to sell Chrome and impose restrictions designed to prevent Android from favoring its search engine (apnews.com)
2024-11-21 Android Google Chrome

Australia introduces a bill in Parliament to ban children younger than 16 from social media; companies would face fines of up to AU$50M for violations (apnews.com)
2024-11-21 Australia Ban

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