“Apple has maintained monopoly power in the smartphone market, not simply by staying ahead of the competition on the merits, but by violating federal antitrust law,” Garland said.
He also referenced the so-called Apple tax that the company charges for in-app purchases.
The Competition Authority accused Google of violating its earlier commitments to the regulator by failing to let news publishers opt out of being used to train its Bard AI model (now Gemini). In a blog post translated from French, Google said it “compromised because it is time to turn the page.”
In the US, AI companies like OpenAI have faced lawsuits from authors and news publishers including The New York Times for allegedly using copyrighted works to train their models.
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The FBI, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Justice Department will brief senators Wednesday on national security threats posed by TikTok, Reuters reports. Senate staffers will get a separate briefing Tuesday.
It could be an important tipping point, as House members emerged from their briefings confident in their votes before overwhelmingly passing a bill that could lead to TikTok’s ouster from the US.
TikTok mobilized users to lobby Congress, and it backfired spectacularly.
The former Treasury Secretary said on CNBC Thursday that he’s “going to put together a group to buy TikTok.” Such a group would need to have massive buying power, since the app boasts 170 million US users, and has an estimated value in the tens of billions of dollars.
The House passed a bill Wednesday that could force TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to sell it, or be banned from the US.
