Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Tech
Uber Eats starts robot deliveries in Tokyo
Tokyo (AFP) - "Caution: robot!" chirps the green self-driving delivery vehicle as it trundles down the street to a pork...
Supercharged EU armed – at last – to take on tech titans
Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) - Clamping down harder and faster on abuses of power by the world's biggest digital companies: such...
ChatGPT-rival Anthropic releases more powerful AI
San Francisco (AFP) - Anthropic, a major player in generative artificial intelligence, announced new models to fuel its Claude chatbot,...
‘Game-changing’ tech fuels US relook at China data risks
Washington (AFP) - From genomic information to internet-connected cars, the United States is rethinking its data protection policies -- with...
Musk sues OpenAI over ‘betrayal’ of mission
San Francisco (AFP) - Elon Musk has launched a legal case against OpenAI, the AI firm he helped to set...
EU queries Meta about ad-free subscriptions, ‘shadow banning’
Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) - The EU on Friday used new regulatory powers to query Meta about ad-free subscriptions to Facebook and...
Riding high on AI, Nvidia is no bubble, says Wall Street
New York (AFP) - The emergence of AI bots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard has fueled a massive rise...
US probes security risks posed by Chinese tech in cars
Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden announced an investigation Thursday into the national security risks posed by Chinese tech...
EU consumers challenge Meta paid service as privacy ‘smokescreen’
Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) - Consumer groups from eight EU countries lodged complaints against Meta on Thursday, accusing the Facebook and...
Google CEO slams ‘completely unacceptable’ Gemini AI errors
San Francisco (AFP) - Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday slammed "completely unacceptable" errors by its Gemini AI app, after...
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