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Lawmakers urge Commerce to put TikTok-parent ByteDance on export control list
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of 15 U.S. lawmakers on Thursday urged the Commerce Department to add TikTok-parent company ByteDance to a government export control list to restrict its acce...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2024
FCC declares AI cloned voice robocalls illegal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday calls made with AI-generated voices are illegal after a fake robocall imitating President Joe Biden sought to dissuade people...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2024
TikTok challenges EU supervisory fee, following Meta’s footsteps
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Chinese online social media platform TikTok has challenged a supervisory fee amounting to 0.05% of its annual worldwide net income to cover EU regulators' costs of...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2024
Cisco's $28 billion Splunk deal set for March 13 EU antitrust decision
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators have set a March 13 deadline to decide whether to clear Cisco Systems' $28 billion bid for cybersecurity firm Splunk, according to a Europe...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2024
Mongolia in talks with SpaceX to launch first national satellite
(Reuters) - The Mongolian government said on Thursday it is in talks with Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch the country's first national telecommunications satellite, its latest move to improve connectivit...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2024
US offers $10mln reward for information on Hive ransomware leaders
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of key leaders in the Hive ransomware organized crime group...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2024
HSBC partners with Google to hit $1 billion climate tech finance goal
By Simon Jessop and Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest bank HSBC has partnered with Google to finance fast-growing climate technology firms behind some of the world's most promising so...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2024
Google rebrands Bard chatbot as Gemini, rolls out paid subscription
By Jeffrey Dastin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google on Thursday renamed its Bard chatbot after the new artificial intelligence that is powering it, called Gemini, and said consumers can pay for better ...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2024
Meta's oversight board to investigate posts about Australian Indigenous vote
By Praveen Menon SYDNEY (Reuters) - Meta's oversight board said on Friday it will examine two cases on how the social media giant handled potentially misleading posts that were shared ahead of the Aus...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2024
Digital ecosystems to be included in Big Tech antitrust, merger probes, EU regulators say
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators investigating Big Tech's merger deals or their market power will now also take their digital ecosystems and the impact of their free produc...
Thomson Reuters Feb 08, 2024

