Texas Judge Rules TikTok Misled Users on Content Filtering
The ruling came from a state court in Texas, and it turned on a narrow question of what TikTok told its users. A judge found on Thursday that TikTok violated…
Saudi Fund Weighs Folding EA Into Its Games Unit
The Saudi sovereign fund bought Electronic Arts outright last month. Now it is weighing whether to fold the publisher into the games company it already owns. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment…
Microsoft Plans to Triple Data Center Capacity to 38 Gigawatts
Bloomberg reported on September 10, citing people familiar with the plans, that Microsoft intends to expand its global data-center capacity from roughly 12 gigawatts today to more than 38 gigawatts…
GPT-6 Astra Clears All 48 Levels of a CAPTCHA Game, and the Web Wonders What Captchas Are For
The video is unremarkable to watch: a cursor moves across a screen, clicking through a grid of images, checking boxes, waiting for green confirmations. OpenAI researchers released the footage to…
Arm’s Second Mobile Compute Subsystem Puts Agents and Graphics on One Pipeline
Will Abbey had a number for the developers gathered in Shanghai on Tuesday: 350 billion. That, the Arm executive vice president and chief commercial officer said, is how many chips…
Apple Studies New Ways to Raise App Store Revenue
Last week, Apple lost the executive who had defended its App Store rules through the industry’s longest-running fights, and the company let him go with little public explanation. This week,…
Qualcomm Backs Ultrahuman’s Plan to Turn the Smart Ring Into a Computer
The smart ring was born as a health device, a quiet band of sensors that tells its owner how they slept and how hard they trained. Qualcomm is investing in…
Hugging Face’s Chief Defends the Nvidia Deal to the Community
The day Nvidia announced it would buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, the loudest questions came not from Wall Street but from the platform’s own users, the millions of developers…
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face, and Promises to Keep It Open
On the website where millions of programmers go to borrow other people’s models, the ownership is about to change. Nvidia said Thursday that it had agreed to acquire Hugging Face,…
Sony Says PlayStation Store Buyers Know a Purchase Is a License
SAN FRANCISCO—Four California PlayStation owners walked into federal court here in June with a straightforward claim: when they bought digital games from Sony’s storefront, no one told them they were…
