Google will pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated for collecting children’s personal information without parental consent, and using it to send targeted ads.
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Google agrees $36 million fine for anti-competitive deals with Australia telcos
YouTube was also last month added to an Australian ban admitting users aged under 16, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the video-sharing site.
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AI startup Perplexity makes bold $34.5 billion bid for Google’s Chrome browser
Buying Chrome would allow the startup to tap the browser’s more than three billion users for an edge in the AI search race.
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Autopilot verdict deals Tesla a ‘black eye’, threatens Musk’s robotaxi ambitions
A court verdict against Tesla, stemming from a fatal 2019 crash of an Autopilot-equipped Model S, could hurt its plans to expand its nascent robotaxi network.
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Meta’s year of bold ‘superintelligence’ bets unlikely to pump profits
It’s crunch time for Mark Zuckerberg as he pulls out all the stops to stay relevant in Silicon Valley’s intensifying advanced artificial intelligence race.
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S&P, Nasdaq at record highs as US-EU trade deal sparks optimism in pivotal week
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq opened at record highs, while the Dow was on the cusp of that as optimism from a U.S.-EU trade pact set the stage for a week packed with megacap earnings.
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