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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Thursday became the first Arab nation to join the worldwide trend of banning social media for children. The UAE set a minimum age of 15, with mandatory age verification rules for providers.

Apple CEO Tim Cook announced in an exclusive interview that the technology giant will raise prices on its products due to unprecedented increases in memory and storage chip costs driven by AI demand.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos challenged widespread concerns about AI eliminating jobs during a recent interview, arguing instead that the technology will generate unprecedented demand for human workers.

Another group is whining about being underrepresented by Hollywood; this time, it’s something called a “Latine.”

Actor Jeremy Allen White has praised the United Kingdom implementing a ban on social media, including apps like TikTok and YouTube, for children under 16.

Regulatory actions taken in Nigeria have caught the attention of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee for potentially affecting American investments, with Chairman Brian Mast (R-FL) addressing a letter to the country’s ambassador to the United States.

British antitrust regulators have mandated that Google must make its search rankings more equitable and provide businesses with advance notification of significant changes to its search services, giving the technology giant six months to comply.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R)  has launched legal action against TikTok to enforce the state’s 2024 legislation that restricts social media access for minors. According to Uthmeier, “Time is up for TikTok.”

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has vowed to sue German public broadcaster ZDF over a programme in which it accused the X owner of using his platform to encourage rioters in Belfast to “hunt migrants”.

The British government has suggested it may ban VPN services as it seeks to enforce its upcoming social media ban for children under 16.

The DOJ has intervened in a pollution lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI company, now a division of SpaceX, claiming the AI firm plays a vital role in military operations and national security.

A single gambler on prediction market platform Polymarket lost $4.2 million on World Cup bets in less than one day, highlighting the massive stakes involved in the soccer tournament, which is expected to become the largest sports gambling event in history.

A group of Stanford University graduates walked out of their commencement ceremony after Google CEO Sundar Pichai began delivering his keynote address. The Walkout, organized by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), was designed to protest the company’s contracts with Israel.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced Tuesday it will acquire Anysphere, the software company behind the AI coding tool Cursor, in a $60 billion transaction aimed at expanding its footprint in the enterprise AI sector. Shares jumped more than nine percent in morning trading, giving SpaceX a similar market capitalization to Amazon.

A study found that Reform UK boss Nigel Farage is the most popular British politician on TikTok, as younger users appear to be shifting away from establishment politicians.

An Iran-linked hacker group called Handala on Friday claimed to have infiltrated the surveillance drones operated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and threatened to use those drones in a terrorist attack on World Cup soccer matches.

At a recent “counter-disinformation” conference at the University of Cambridge, European technologist Robin Berjon suggested that “military force” may have to be used against American tech platforms to bring them into line.

CoStar Group, the company behind Homes.com, has filed an amicus brief in Zillow Group, Inc. v. Midwest Real Estate Data LLC accusing Zillow of demanding open access to competitors’ listings while locking up pre-market inventory of its own.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) warns that AI will reshape society by accelerating a major winner-take-all type of inequality. The senator also described AI as an existential test for America’s founding “moral covenant” that risks turning humans into “raw material” and children into victims.

AI startup Anthropic has deployed senior technical staff to the nation’s capital for emergency negotiations with Trump administration officials following export restrictions that forced the shutdown of its most advanced AI models.

U.S. industrial production edged up in May as strength in high-technology, defense, mining, and durable manufacturing offset weakness in nondurable goods and consumer products.

Fox has announced a definitive agreement to acquire streaming device maker Roku for approximately $22 billion in a major media consolidation move.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has continued the positive momentum from Friday’s IPO by jumping eight percent in morning trading. Analysts continue to issue mixed ratings on the company, with analyst CFRA initiating coverage with a sell rating.

Freedom campaigners have reacted with alarm after British Prime Minister Starmer announced social media and online gaming bans for children, warning that they would inevitably lead to invasive “papers please” internet restrictions for adults to implement.

Leftist activists plunged Geneva into chaos on Sunday, clashing with police, setting fires, and vandalising businesses to protest against President Donald Trump’s meeting with the G7 nations on Monday.

A Canadian mother has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming the company’s ChatGPT chatbot contributed to her 24-year-old daughter’s tragic suicide by encouraging her darkest thoughts instead of providing help and access to crisis counselors.

A growing number of U.S. policymakers and national security officials as sounding the alarm over South Korea’s increasing alliance with China, which may be posing a direct threat to American business interests in the tech sector and the broader U.S.-Korea trade relationship.

German state media has accused Tesla trillionaire Elon Musk and anti-grooming gang activist Tommy Robinson of calling for the “hunting” of migrants in the wake of an alleged asylum seeker beheading attempt in Belfast.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has launched a nationwide program to provide Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses at no cost to every blind veteran in the United States, offering transformative assistive technology to more than 130,000 eligible veterans. One blind veteran explains that when he got a pair of AI smart glasses, “I got my independence back.”

Opponents of AI data center construction have blocked or delayed a record number of projects worth nearly $130 billion so far this year, according to a recent study.

The Trump administration has moved to restrict foreign access to some of the most advanced artificial intelligence technology developed in the United States, according to a report published Friday.

4,000 current and former SpaceX employees are already mapping out plans to spend their anticipated wealth from the company’s expected initial public offering, with luxury real estate, high-end watches, and private jet travel topping their wish lists. Even the company’s cafeteria workers are expected to cash in on the rocket-based gravy train.

Millionaire left-wing TV host Jimmy Kimmel was slammed for warning against “obscenely wealthy weirdo” Elon Musk getting richer. “The class envy from multi millionaires of billionaires is really something to behold,” one X user quipped.