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A Florida teen suing social-media platforms over claims their design led to mental health issues dropped his lawsuit against Meta Platforms ahead of a trial slated to begin next week in Los Angeles.

Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted works without the necessary permissions.

‘The bad blood between Apple and OpenAI plays into Google’s hands,’ says Paul Meeks, head of technology research at Freedom Capital Markets.

Judges at the European Union's top court dismissed an appeal by Google over a landmark, 4.1 billion euro ($4.5 billion) antitrust fine imposed for throttling competition and reducing consumer choice through the dominance of its mobile Android operating system. The case has been tangled up in courts since the European Commission announced the fine in 2018. “The appeal brought by Google and its parent company Alphabet against the judgment of the General Court is dismissed, thereby confirming the penalty imposed for Google Search’s abuse of a dominant position in the context of the Android operating system,” the Luxembourg-based judges wrote in their ruling.

(Updated with a response from a Google spokesperson in the sixth paragraph.) Alphabet's (GOOGL, G

Alphabet's (GOOGL, GOOG) Google is facing a South Korean investigation for allegedly abusing its dom

Waymo Recalls 3,900 Vehicles After Construction Zone Software Problem

Waymo is recalling 3,871 robo-taxis to correct software that might allow a vehicle to enter a freeway construction zone, according to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration notice. For starters, it illustrates the size of the Waymo robo-taxi fleet. The Alphabet -owned ride-hailing network operator is expanding across the country, along with other companies, including Tesla Amazon.com -backed Zoox, and others.

NHTSA identifies a Fifth Generation ADS flaw that could cause vehicles to enter closed freeway zones at speed

Waymo identified a software problem that could likely ​cause the vehicles to enter ⁠a closed freeway construction ​zone and continue driving ​at speed.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google and more than two dozen other companies have b

A jury had found the two companies liable for designing platforms that harmed a young user and awarded $6 million in damages

Investing.com -- Meta Platforms, TikTok parent ByteDance, Snap, and Alphabet’s YouTube have agreed to pay roughly $27 million to settle claims brought by a Kentucky school district alleging their platforms contributed to a student mental health crisis, Reuters reported on Friday.

By Diana Novak Jones May 29 (Reuters) - A Kentucky school district secured approximately $27 million in settlements from social media companies over claims they fueled a student mental‑health crisis,

A Kentucky school district secured roughly $27 million in settlements from Meta Platforms and other social media companies over claims they fueled a student mental‑health crisis, according to records seen by Reuters on Friday. Meta agreed to pay ‌the most at $9 million in the bellwether case for school districts, according to documents that reveal financial terms for the first time as ‌terms of the deals had not been disclosed in court. The operator of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp settled the case brought by Breathitt County School District on May 21, a few weeks ​before a planned June trial, following settlements by co-defendants Snap Inc, YouTube parent Alphabet and TikTok parent ByteDance.

Meta resolves a major school district case, but roughly 1,200 related lawsuits remain pending.

The Breathitt County School District in Kentucky had sought over $60 million from Meta and other platforms over students' mental health

Waymo's vehicles are getting safer every day.

Alphabet Inc.‘s Waymo is issuing a recall for over 3,791 autonomous vehicles after a software glitch affecting its latest self-driving stack came to light. Software Issue Affects Waymo Fleet The issue could likely cause the Robotaxis to drive on to...

On April 20, an unoccupied Waymo robotaxi encountered a flooded section of road in San Antonio during extreme weather. Instead of stopping, it slowed down and kept going. The vehicle was swept into Salado Creek. It had to be recovered from the waterway days later. Ten days after that incident, ...

Google has reached a settlement with Black employees who alleged systemic racial disparities in hiring, pay, and advancement in a lawsuit filed in 2022. April Curley, a former Google employee, had sued the tech giant for racial discrimination, saying it engages in a “pattern and practice” of unfair treatment for its Black workers. Other former Google workers also joined the suit, which later received class action status.

EU regulators are giving Alphabet's Google a little bit ‌more time to sooth their concerns ‌after a previous proposal from the company fell short, ​the European Commission said on Friday. "Google is engaging with the Commission to defend itself and in other in order to offer a ‌solution that really ⁠addresses the concerns that were raised in the case and in the ⁠preliminary findings," Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier told a daily news conference. The ​Commission, which acts as ​the EU competition ​enforcer, has charged Google with ‌breaching the Digital Markets Act, ​which aims ​to rein in the power of Big Tech, and is in the midst ​of finalising ‌its decision that could include a fine ​against Google.

Google faces a fresh UK lawsuit accusing it of abusing its dominance in online display advertising, the claimants announced Thursday, in the latest antitrust action against the US tech giant.A separate lawsuit filed in UK courts last year also accused Google of overcharging for online advertising.