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The Electronic Frontier Foundation found that some Android apps unwittingly share users' precise location with advertisers by default through third-party SDKs, including two apps downloaded a combined 60 million times.
The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, an Nvidia-led industry group that has grown to more than 120 companies, has already produced a working group proposing open-comment guidelines for reporting AI cybersecurity incidents.
Apple is seeking a preliminary injunction in its trade secrets case against OpenAI to stop it from developing an AI device or other products based on Apple's technology, and says its investigation has surfaced 11 more former Apple employees who may have been witnesses or otherwise involved.
India has introduced legislation laying the legal groundwork for a potential overhaul of the zero-merchant-discount-rate regime that has let businesses accept UPI payments for free since 2020, opening the door to merchant charges on some transactions.
After OpenAI and Anthropic admitted their unreleased AI models autonomously hacked into several companies, attorneys tell TechCrunch that current U.S. hacking law offers little precedent for assigning liability when the "hacker" is an AI agent, not a human.
Apple has filed a fresh legal challenge against a UK government demand for access to its users' encrypted data, according to the Financial Times, after London issued a new "technical capability notice" last year.
Malaysia has reportedly ordered the shutdown of Balaji Srinivasan's Network School, a startup community he framed as the first step toward building a new, techno-optimist country.
A federal judge denied xAI's request to block Minnesota's ban on "nudify" apps, saying the company's delay in filing suggested the harm wasn't immediate.
Two new academic reports find that venture-backed startups commit more fraud than non-VC-backed peers, and researchers point to investor pressure and weak board oversight as key drivers.
A federal judge said during a Thursday hearing that the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk and barring the federal government from using its technology.
Florida plans to spend nearly $200 million in unused federal EV-charging funds on 32 landing pads for electric air taxis instead of building public chargers.
The FTC (US consumer-protection regulator) is suing Hims & Hers, alleging it shared patients' medical data with advertisers Meta and Snap and misled users about its privacy practices.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (the US auto-safety regulator) has given Amazon-owned Zoox a temporary exemption that lets it start charging passengers for rides in its steering-wheel-free robotaxi.
X, Elon Musk's social media platform, has settled its multiyear legal battle with advertising trade group the World Federation of Advertisers over a boycott dispute.
Runlayer, a Model Context Protocol gateway startup, sued HR software company Rippling, alleging Rippling used insider access from a year-long product trial to build a near-identical clone.
Rep. Kevin Mullin is set to introduce a bill this week to set national safety standards for autonomous vehicles after incidents of robotaxis blocking ambulances and fire trucks.
eBay and several former executives agreed to pay $56 million to settle a civil suit from a couple the company's ex-employees targeted in a 2019 harassment campaign.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Monday his company has never advocated banning open-weight AI models, though he still views China's authoritarian government as a distinct danger.
Three plaintiffs are suing Apple, alleging App Store security failures let them download a fraudulent crypto wallet app that cost them more than $1.8 million combined.
Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Amazon, alleging the company induced contracted executives — including HBO Max marketing exec Pia Barlow — to breach their employment agreements.