Internet/e-commerce

A group of state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others warning their chatbots' “delusional outputs” could be violating state laws (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-11 Google Microsoft Apple chatbot

Operation Bluebird Wants To Relaunch 'Twitter' For a New Social Network (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-11 Twitter

Google tests AI-powered overviews on some publications' Google News pages; publishers like Der Spiegel, El País, and WaPo in commercial partnerships get paid (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-11 Google AI

Google Faces Fines Over Google Play If It Doesn't Make More Concessions (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-11 Google

Google ads for shared ChatGPT, Grok guides push macOS infostealer malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-11 Google

Spotify will begin testing a feature that lets a user write a prompt for a playlist and receive a unique set of songs based on the user's earlier behavior (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-11 Spotify

Internal memo: Google is naming Amin Vahdat, who leads the company's AI and infrastructure team, to the new role of chief technologist for AI infrastructure (www.semafor.com)
2025-12-11 Google AI

India Proposes Charging OpenAI, Google For Training AI On Copyrighted Content (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-11 India Google AI

Amazon now offers same-day perishable grocery delivery in 2,300+ US markets and has expanded the service's grocery offerings by 30%+ since its August launch (www.grocerydive.com)
2025-12-11 Amazon

Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users customize “top stories” in Search, and launches highlighted links from users' news subscriptions (searchengineland.com)
2025-12-11 Google

ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US iOS App Store, up from No. 4 in 2024, followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Instagram (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-11 IOS Google Instagram WhatsApp

Reddit starts a limited test of verified profiles, an opt-in feature that places a gray checkmark beside the usernames of notable people or businesses (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-11 Reddit

Permalink to IBM to acquire Confluent for $11 billion (sdtimes.com)
2025-12-11 IBM

Google releases fully managed, remote MCP servers to help developers connect AI agents to services such as Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-11 Google AI

Sources: Google is set to be hit with a potentially large EU fine in Q1 2026 if it does not do more to ensure Google Play complies with EU competition rules (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-11 Google

Kiev devising new scheme to steal Western taxpayers' money – Russian intel (www.rt.com)
2025-12-11 Russia Intel

Microsoft Teams to warn of suspicious traffic with external domains (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-11 Microsoft

Google unveils Emergency Live Video, similar to iOS' Emergency SOS Live Video, letting US users on Android 8 or later to share live video with 911 responders (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-11 Android IOS Google

Amazon Changes How Copyright Protection is Applied To Kindle Direct's Self-Published Ebooks (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-11 Amazon

Amazon plans to let authors offer their DRM-free ebooks in the EPUB and PDF formats through Kindle Direct Publishing, starting January 20, 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-11 Amazon

YouTube TV plans to launch over 10 genre-specific, cheaper YouTube TV Plans in early 2026, including a Sports Plan featuring ESPN Unlimited and Fox Sports 1 (variety.com)
2025-12-11 YouTube

Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts (www.adweek.com)
2025-12-11 Shopify

Starcloud, which launched a satellite with a Nvidia H100 chip in November, says the satellite is running and querying responses from Google's Gemma (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-11 Google Nvidia

Geothermal energy company Fervo, which aims to power data centers and more, raised $462M from Google and others, taking its total funding to $1.5B since 2017 (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-11 Google Energy

In a series of lawsuits, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, and Berkshire were accused of failing to keep their tech out of Russian-made weapons used in Ukraine (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-11 Russia Intel Ukraine Berkshire Texas AMD

Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft review: the $630 pen-enabled e-reader is a tough sell for most people, even with its big 11" display and productivity features (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-11 Amazon

Google launches a cheaper AI Plus plan in India, costing ~$2.21 per month for the first six months and ~$4.44 thereafter, to compete with ChatGPT Go (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-11 India Google AI

Sources: Lip-Bu Tan's dual roles as Intel CEO and tech investor cause consternation in the industry and at Intel; four ex-Intel execs say it caused them to exit (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-11 Intel

TTP: Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store host dozens of apps linked to US-sanctioned foreign companies; Google removed 17 apps and Apple removed 35 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-10 Google Apple

A survey of UK adults in 2025: on average, they spend 4.5 hours per day online, up 10 minutes on 2024, and 50%+ of time is on Google- and Meta-owned services (www.ofcom.org.uk)
2025-12-10 Google

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