Ashley Belanger

“At that point, it’s prohibitive” to do business with China, Brzytwa told Ars, suggesting that Trump’s proposed tariffs are about “blocking imports,” not safeguarding American tech. How soon would tech prices increase? It’s unclear how quickly prices would rise if […]

In July, an international NGO that monitors human rights abuses and corruption, Global Witness, found 45 “bot-like accounts that collectively produced around 610,000 posts” in a two-month period this summer on X, “amplifying racist and sexualized abuse, conspiracy theories, and

On Monday, Microsoft came out guns blazing, posting a blog accusing Google of “dishonestly” funding groups conducting allegedly biased studies to discredit Microsoft and mislead antitrust enforcers and the public. In the blog, Microsoft lawyer Rima Alaily alleged that an

X Payments unlikely to launch without New York It seems possible that X has gone silent on X Payments because there is no timeline currently. A global payments expert for tech consultancy Capco, Daniela Hawkins, told Ars that, as an

In April, TSMC was provided with $6.6 billion in direct CHIPS Act funding to “support TSMC’s investment of more than $65 billion in three greenfield leading-edge fabs in Phoenix, Arizona, which will manufacture the world’s most advanced semiconductors,” the Department

Following an investigation, Elon Musk’s X has won its fight to avoid gatekeeper status under the European Union’s strict competition law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA). On Wednesday, the European Commission (EC) announced that “X does indeed not qualify as a

“The use of artificial intelligence is a rapidly growing reality across many industries,” Schopf wrote. “The mere fact that artificial intelligence has played a role, which continues to expand in our everyday lives, does not make the results generated by

“Discovery on those topics is inevitable, and there is no reason to further delay,” the executives argued. The executives have requested that the court open discovery at a hearing scheduled for November 15 to prevent further delays that they fear

“Hampering Google’s AI tools risks holding back American innovation at a critical moment,” Mulholland warned, claiming that AI is still new and “competition globally is fierce.” “There are enormous risks to the government putting its thumb on the scale of

Why did the study target X? The University of Michigan research team worried that their experiment posting AI-generated NCII on X may cross ethical lines. They chose to conduct the study on X because they deduced it was “a platform