Apple’s claims about risk of outside payments ‘do not survive scrutiny’, Epic Games tells Australian court

At start of what is expected to be a five-month trial, Epic says Apple has allowed such options for physical goods and the ‘sky did not fall in’

Epic Games takes on Apple and Google in Australia over alleged misuse of market power

Maker of Fortnite says in lawsuit that by controlling in-app purchases, the tech companies are restricting competition and innovation

As AI tools get smarter, they’re growing more covertly racist, experts find

ChatGPT and Gemini discriminate against those who speak African American Vernacular English, report shows

EU calls on tech firms to outline plans to tackle deepfakes amid election fears

Move involving companies such as Google, Facebook and X comes after evidence of Russian online interference in polls

Google restricts AI chatbot Gemini from answering questions on 2024 elections

Change, made out of ‘abundance of caution’, now applies to US and India and will roll out in nations where elections are held this year

When £17m isn’t enough: FTSE firms plead to pay bosses millions more

Confronted by the huge salaries on offer in the US, London boardrooms are lobbying to be allowed to make their own bosses even wealthier

Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them

Last week the six biggest operators – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and ByteDance – were forced to toe the line on competition, advertising, interoperability and more. It was a gamechanger

‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images?

Experts say Gemini was not thoroughly tested, after image generator depicted variety of historical figures as people of colour

AI likely to increase energy use and accelerate climate misinformation – report

Claims that artificial intelligence will help solve the climate crisis are misguided, warns a coalition of environmental groups

Facebook and Instagram: Meta services hit by widespread outages

Services refuse login attempts and feeds stall as Google’s platform also experiences login problems

Misleading clickbait is prevalent on Facebook and Instagram in Canada after Meta’s news ban. Could it happen in Australia?

‘A real-world, newsless Facebook turns out to be more toxic than I had anticipated,’ says Prof Jean-Hughes Roy

‘Musk needs to be adored … Zuckerberg is out of his depth’: Kara Swisher on the toxic giants of Big Tech

The journalist and podcaster has been scrutinising Silicon Valley for decades, knows all the big players – and once believed that tech could save the world. But that was before greed and ego got in the way

If Meta’s intransigence isn’t enough, AI poses an even greater threat to journalism

While Facebook has refused to renew its Australian media deals, robots scraping news sites for content could upend the industry entirely

Tech firms say new Australian standards will make it harder for AI to protect online safety

The standards target generative AI’s misuse potential but Microsoft says its ability to flag problematic material could be hurt too

Google sued for $2.3bn by European media groups over digital ad losses

Lawsuit filed by publishers including Axel Springer allege Google ‘abused its dominant position’ in digital ad-tech