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EU Investigates Facebook and Instagram Over Addictive Effects on Children

16 May 2024 at 14:13
The American tech giant’s platforms, Facebook and Instagram, may β€œexploit the weaknesses and inexperience of minors,” the European Commission said.

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β€œWe are sparing no effort to protect our children,” Thierry Breton, the European Union’s internal markets commissioner, said in a statement.

Meta Faces EU Investigation Over Election Disinformation

30 April 2024 at 09:55
The inquiry is intended to pressure the tech giant to more aggressively police Facebook and Instagram ahead of the European Union’s closely watched elections in June.

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Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, which is investigating Meta over election disinformation.

β€˜To the Future’: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower

The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.

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More than 200,000 people converged on the Leap tech conference in the desert outside Riyadh in March.

β€˜To the Future’: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower

The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.

Β© Iman Al-Dabbagh for The New York Times

More than 200,000 people converged on the Leap tech conference in the desert outside Riyadh in March.

TikTok Faces E.U. Inquiry Over β€˜Addictive’ Features

22 April 2024 at 17:47
European officials threatened to fine TikTok and force it to remove some features, the latest regulatory challenge for the Chinese-owned social media app.

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The action announced on Monday is the second E.U. investigation against TikTok.

Europe’s A.I. β€˜Champion’ Sets Sights on Tech Giants in U.S.

Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google, is getting support from European leaders who want to protect the region’s culture and politics.

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β€œThe issue with not having a European champion is that the road map gets set by the United States,” Mr. Mensch said.
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