Uber will start selling trip and takeout data to marketers
The company's ad business is already on track to make $1.5 billion this year.
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EU opens antitrust investigation into Google's AI practices, NVIDIA can now sell its high-end AI chips to 'approved customers in China,' and Congress removes right to repair language from defense bill
-Google can add another probe to its list: The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into the company surrounding the content used for its AI tools.
-NVIDIA is now allowed to sell its second-best H200 processors to China, rather than just the sanction-approved H20 model that China had previously declined to buy.
-According to a statement from the Public Interest Research Group, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 has removed language that would have granted the US military the right to repair its own equipment rather than requiring it to use official defense contractors for maintenance.
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Meta plans to push back the debut of its next mixed reality glasses
According to an internal memo, Meta's project codenamed Phoenix will be delayed to the first half of 2027.
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X shuts down the European Commission’s ad account, Trump says Netflix/Warner Bros. market share 'could be a problem', and OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT says posts appearing to show in-app ads are ‘not real or not ads’
-Just a day after receiving a roughly $140 million fine, X has terminated the ad account of the European Commission. Nikita Bier, X's head of product, accused the European Commission of using an exploit to artificially boost the reach of its post announcing the major fine.
-After Netflix announced that it was acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery last week, observers immediately wondered when or if the deal could obtain regulatory approval.
-Those might not exactly be ads you're seeing on ChatGPT, at least according to OpenAI. Nick Turley, OpenAI's head of ChatGPT, clarified the confusion around potential ads appearing with the AI chatbot. In a post on X, Turley said "there are no live tests for ads" and that "any screenshots you've seen are either not real or not ads."
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Meta is reportedly going to slash spending on the metaverse
The company is allegedly considering massive cuts to the project.
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