The US Senate Commerce Committee unanimously advanced its version of the Kids Online Safety Act, which has been pending for years, by a voice vote Wednesday, as senators hope to build a broader kids online saf... (more story)

Climate advocates are calling on the Australian government to impose mandatory sustainability requirements on the country's rapidly expanding artificial intelligence data center sector, warning a surge in elec... (more story)

China is warning that an accelerating nationwide race into future industries could undermine innovation and distort competition, as nearly every province pursues many of the same strategic sectors despite sign... (more story)

SpaceX detailed an array of litigation challenges as it issued its first quarterly earnings report Tuesday, including content-moderation issues in Europe and the US, privacy litigation in a federal court in Ca... (more story)

US Senator Josh Hawley is planning to unveil bipartisan legislation to combat surveillance pricing — the “scam” of companies from Jet Blue to Walmart setting different prices for different customers at the sam... (more story)

Amazon is unlikely to succeed in claims that Perplexity AI's shopping agent violates federal or California anti-hacking laws, a federal appeals court in Seattle said, lifting an injunction that had blocked the... (more story)

A new inquiry by 15 Republican attorneys general into a July hacking incident involving an autonomous OpenAI agent comes amid mounting US state and federal scrutiny of the company, and concerns about rapidly a... (more story)

Otter.ai faced skepticism from a US judge in Silicon Valley at a hearing over its bid to dismiss a proposed privacy class action. US District Judge Eumi K. Lee said she was "not persuaded" the plaintiffs lacke... (more story)