Amrita Khalid

General Motors filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco last week, accusing it of unfairly taxing it $108 million over a period of seven years, reports Bloomberg.

China’s top intelligence agency has doubled down on its US spying efforts — going as far as creating an AI system that can create instant dossiers on persons of interest, reports The New York Times. More than two dozen US officials, most of whom remained anonymous, described a sort of AI arms race between the US and China, with both countries ratcheting up spending and manpower.

Amazon no longer sells donkey skin products to California residents, thanks to a settlement with a horse welfare non-profit, reports Wired. The ecommerce giant stocks pills, powders, and even cakes laced with donkey skin — also known as “ejiao.” The Chinese medicine ingredient is used to treat anemia.