Leaders from the AFL-CIO, representing 2.3 million nationwide members, say Gov. Gavin Newsom needs to focus on the technology’s harms to win support for her presidential run.
Lawsuits in California federal and state court are unearthing documents embarrassing to tech companies — and may be a tipping point into federal regulation. TikTok and Snap reached settlements in the case while Meta and Google are continuing as defendants.
The federal suit alleged that Facebook, which later became Meta, overpaid to acquire Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 as part of a strategy to eliminate social networking competitors.
In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.
In a landmark antitrust case, the Justice Department asked a federal judge to force the company to sell its popular Chrome browser. The Department of Justice and a group of states had until the end of Wednesday to propose remedies in an antitrust lawsuit they won in August.
The California legislation would have required tech companies to test AI for harm to society. It attracted opposition from numerous members of Congress and major AI companies including Google, Meta, and OpenAI.
Nearly a quarter-century after Microsoft lost a similar case, a judge’s decision that Google abused a monopoly in internet search is likely to have major ripple effects.
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram faced allegations that it had collected facial identification information on millions of users in violation of a state law.
Lawmakers in California and elsewhere can no longer take the tech industry's word when their armies of lobbyists make the case that they police themselves and shouldn't be held accountable.