The European Unionâs Artificial Intelligence Act, known as the EU AI Act, has been described as âthe world's first comprehensive AI lawâ by the European Commission.
The companies will see their AI tools offered via a new federal contracting platform, the Multiple Awards Schedule (MSA), which would let government agencies access AI tool sellers with pre-negotiated contracts, rather than negotiating with vendors individually.Â
Google removed the name of 58 DEI groups from its list, including the Latino Leadership Alliance and the ACLU of Illinois.
Mastercard seemingly denied playing a role in a recent marketplace crackdown on games with adult content, while Valve says the pressure was indirect.
A surprising figure is celebrating Figmaâs successful IPO: Lina Khan, former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, who said the offering demonstrates the value of "letting startups grow into independently successful businesses."
Joby's years of R&D with the DoD may be paying off. The company has signed an agreement with defense contractor L3Harris to develop a gas-turbine hybrid VTOL that can fly autonomously â for defense applications.
That's an uptick from the $800 million hit last quarter.
The court rejected Googleâs argument that the trial judge made legal errors in the antitrust case that unfairly favored Epic Games.
The developers are also required to submit proof that an authoritative third-party body has declared the app to be a "game of skill," the company proposed.
Google, OpenAI, other tech giants commit to building digital health ecosystem with Trump admin.
Google confirmed it will sign the European Union's general purpose AI code of practice. Meta has already said it will not sign the voluntary framework.
The Space Force is leveraging commercial competition for the next phase of its PTS program.
Google said it has "never built a backdoor" for its services, but refused to rule out that it had received a secret U.K. surveillance order demanding access to encrypted data.
The Department of Government Efficiency has presented plans to use a new AI tool to eliminate half of the federal governmentâs regulatory mandates by the first anniversary of President Donald Trumpâs return to office, according to The Washington Post.
A U.K. law requiring that pornography websites verify the age of their users took effect Friday.
India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services â many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers â for allegedly promoting "obscene" content.
In response to the European Union's incoming regulation of political advertising, Meta said on Friday that it would stop selling and showing political ads in the EU from October 2025.
When DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese firms released their AI models, Western researchers quickly noticed they sidestepped questions critical of the Chinese Communist Party. U.S. officials later confirmed that these tools are engineered to reflect Beijingâs talking points, raising concerns about censorship and bias. American AI leaders like OpenAI have pointed to this as justification […]
The Trump administration published its much-anticipated AI Action Plan Wednesday, signaling a sharp shift away from former President Bidenâs cautious approach to addressing the risks of AI, and toward a focus on speed, sovereignty, national security, and competing with China.
India's financial crime watchdog filed a complaint against Walmart-backed Myntra, alleging the company violated foreign investment rules by channeling over $191 million through a related-party scheme.
The move is designed to create a more open, competitive environment for the app economy and user choice.
Here's everything we know about President Trump's AI Action Plan, a roadmap for the administration's approach to AI.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is where breakthrough ideas meet the real-world challenges that define the future â and with over 10,000 startup and VC leaders converging, thereâs no better place to have the hard conversations. One of the most urgent? How artificial intelligence is reshaping national defense, security, and critical infrastructure in real time. Enter AI […]
The tech giants have evidence that Chinese hackers are exploiting the new bug, but warned "multiple actors" are also hacking into affected SharePoint systems.
Following a Pro Publica report that Microsoft was using engineers in China to help maintain cloud computing systems for the U.S. Department of Defense, the company said itâs made changes to ensure this will no longer happen.
When Vultron announced its $22 million funding round earlier this week, the AI startup made sure to highlight a key investor: Craft Ventures, the firm “co-founded by White House AI adviser David Sacks.” The announcement has raised questions about conflicts of interest in the Trump administration, where Sacks serves as both AI and crypto czar […]
Meta will not sign the EU's new rules, calling the implementation "over-reach"
The shareholders' lawsuit alleges Facebook execs intentionally violated an FTC agreement by sharing user data with third-party apps without user consent.
The British Business Bank, owned by the UK government, is creating a £500 million (around $674 million) economic package to help support diverse and underrepresented fund managers and founders in the country. Fifty million pounds will be set aside for female-led venture funds, which means the BBB has now committed at least £100 million (around […]
A research institute connected to the United Nations has created two AI-powered avatars designed to teach people about refugee issues. 404 Media wrote about an experiment conducted by a class at the United Nations University Center for Policy Research that resulted in the creation of two AI agents or avatars â Amina, a fictional woman […]
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen sharply criticized universities including Stanford and MIT, along with the National Science Foundation, in a group chat with AI scientists and Trump administration officials, according to screenshots viewed by the Washington Post.
France is investigating Elon Muskâs X and a member of parliament, Ãric Bothorel, is criticizing Grok's content.
Helios, a startup aiming to build an AI-powered operating system for policy professionals, has raised $4 million in seed funding.
A U.S. appeals court has blocked the Federal Trade Commission's âclick-to-cancelâ rule that would have required companies to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up.
While highly sought after, federal software contracts frequently come with a hidden cost: Achieving government SaaS security compliance, known as FedRAMP, can take years and require substantial resources. Achieving this certification typically takes up to three years and costs more than $3 million, covering everything from security operations engineer salaries to security audits, according to […]
California State Senator Scott Wiener on Wednesday introduced new amendments to his latest bill, SB 53, that would require the world’s largest AI companies to publish safety and security protocols and issue reports when safety incidents occur. If signed into law, California would be the first state to impose meaningful transparency requirements onto leading AI […]
Though he officially left the U.S. government in May, Steve Davis -- Elon Musk's low-flying former top lieutenant at the Department of Government Efficiency -- continues wielding influence at DOGE, according to the WSJ. The outlet says Davis regularly gives directions to current DOGE officials and has privately dismissed his departure as "fake news."
Europeâs fintech darling Revolut is looking to raise a new funding round that would give it a $65 billion valuation, the Financial Times reports. The UK-based company is reportedly in talks to raise around $1 billion by issuing new shares and selling existing ones. The US-based firm Greenoaks is said to be leading the round, […]
Launching a U.S.-specific app could be part of the company's broader plan to comply with a 2024 law requiring ByteDance to divest from TikTok.
TikTok is developing a new version of its app for U.S. users ahead of an expected sale of the app to a group of investors, according to a new report from The Information.
Apple has filed appealed the EU's decision to fine the company â¬500 million (about $580 million) for not complying with competition rules.
The main Reuters news account, as well as the Reuters World account, have apparently been inaccessible to X users in India since Saturday evening.
A group known as the Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission over Googleâs AI Overviews, according to Reuters. The complaint accuses Google of âmisusing web content for Google’s AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers in the […]
Microsoft is closing its operations in Pakistan, marking the end of a 25-year presence in the South Asian nation. The Redmond-based company on Friday told TechCrunch that it is changing its operational model in Pakistan and will now serve its customers through resellers and “other closely located Microsoft offices.” “Our customer agreements and service will […]
The European Union said it will stick to its timeline for rolling out its AI legislation, ignoring calls by tech companies to delay the bloc's AI rules.
The final bill is largely what emerged from the Senate Finance Committee in mid-June.
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration’s Office of Personnel Management did not comply with all necessary laws when it ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to speedily comply with the president’s executive order on “gender ideology.” On the first day of his term, President Trump passed […]
After pushing the TikTok sale date back yet again, President Donald Trump said in an interview on Sunday that he had found a potential buyer for the ByteDance-owned platform.
After going back and forth over the provision, Sen. Marsha Blackburn offered an amendment to strip the provision alongside Sen. Maria Cantwell.Â
A group of âvery wealthy peopleâ is set to buy short-form video app TikTok, according to President Donald Trump.
A federal proposal that would ban states and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years could soon be signed into law, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other lawmakers work to secure its inclusion into a GOP megabill ahead of a key July 4 deadline. Here's what's at stake.
The United States Supreme Court ruled Friday to uphold a Texas law requiring websites with âsexual material harmful to minorsâ to verify the ages of all visitors. The Free Speech Coalition (FSC), a trade association for the adult industry, had brought the lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton challenging the state’s age verification law. […]
The Danish government is working to change copyright law to give its citizens a right to their own body, facial features, and voice. The landmark law is designed to strengthen protections against the creation and dissemination of deepfakes, reports The Guardian.
Germany has told Apple and Google to remove Chinese AI app DeepSeek from their app stores, saying the company transfers users' data to China illegally.
Getty Images dropped its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI on Wednesday at Londonâs High Court, narrowing one of the most closely watched legal fights over how AI companies use copyrighted content to train their models.Â
The UK's competition regulator may require Google to offer users alternative search engines; change how it ranks searches; and improve data portability.
The U.S. government has banned WhatsApp from devices used by U.S. House of Representatives staff, saying the app poses potential security risks.
Gov. Kathy Hochul is directing the New York Power Authority to develop the new power plant.
In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans, at least, thought cryptocurrency was a fad, Katie Haun found herself on a debate stage in Mexico City opposite Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who had dismissed digital assets as near worthless. As Krugman focused on Bitcoin's wild price swings, Haun steered the conversation toward something else â stablecoins.
A Republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural hurdle on Saturday.
European governments may be reconsidering their use of American technology and services, according to a new report in The New York Times.
The contract could put the model maker in competition with the OpenAI services that Microsoft wants to sell to the DoD.
The Senate Finance Committeeâs language would take a sledgehammer to some parts of the renewable-friendly Inflation Reduction Act while sparing others.Â
While Silicon Valley executives like those from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI are grabbing headlines for trading their Brunello Cucinelli vests for Army Reserve uniforms, a quieter transformation has been underway in the U.S. Navy. How? Well, the Navy’s Chief Technology Officer Justin Fanelli says he has spent the last two and a half years focused […]
Chinese companies Huawei and SMIC may have a difficult time accessing resources needed to build AI chips, due to Taiwanese export controls.
Alphabet-owned robotaxi company Waymo is limiting service due to Saturdayâs scheduled nationwide âNo Kingsâ protests against President Donald Trump and his policies.
Beleaguered genetic testing company 23andMe announced Friday that it has reached an agreement to sell itself to TTAM Research Institute, a nonprofit led by the company's co-founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki.
New York has a new AI safety bill that tries to regulate frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
CTOs from companies including OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir make up this first cohort of CTOs in the Army Reserve.