The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has confirmed that it’s carrying out a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon’s ties with Anthropic, after Amazon recently completed a $ 4 billion investment into the AI startup. The news comes a week after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) revealed it was launching an invitation to comment into Google’s own ties […]
SHINee’s Key Sheds Light On SM Entertainment’s Strict “Formal Education” Classes
NCT‘s Doyoung appeared on Episode 542 of the MBC variety show I Live Alone. He showed the cast members and viewers his cooking skills and how he eats while watching romantic K-Dramas. [Video could not be displayed] At the end of the clip, he was asked if he every felt jealous of couples knowing that […]
Apple, Google and Meta face first formal investigations under EU’s DMA
What’s the collective noun for investigations on Big Tech? Because the European Union has just announced a pile of probes on gatekeepers designated under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Alphabet/Google, Apple and Meta are facing the first formal non-compliance investigations under the bloc’s rebooted ex ante competition rulebook. Alphabet/Google’s rules on steering in Google Play […]
EU opens formal probe of TikTok under Digital Services Act, citing child safety, risk management and other concerns
The European Union is formally investigating TikTok’s compliance with the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), the Commission has announced. Areas the Commission are focusing on in this investigation of TikTok are linked to the protection of minors, advertising transparency, data access for researchers, and the risk management of addictive design and harmful content, in said […]