Government & Policy

The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has revealed an early-stage probe into Google’s ties with Anthropic, after the Alphabet subsidiary invested in its U.S. AI rival over several rounds. While it’s not at an official investigation stage yet, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is inviting stakeholders and other “interested parties” to comment ahead of a final […]

It turns out that maybe, just maybe, spending a lot of time staring at your phone and reading bad news isn’t great for your outlook on life or humanity. That’s the finding of a recent study published in the Journal of Computers in Human Behavior Reports, which linked doomscrolling to existential anxiety, despair, distrust and

Two years ago, workers at an Apple Store in Towson, Maryland were the first to establish a formally recognized union at an Apple retail store in the United States. Now they’re the first to reach a tentative contract agreement. According to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, which

The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Proposition 22 – the ballot measure that passed in November 2020 and classified app-based gig workers as independent contractors rather than employees – is here to stay.  The decision is a win for app-based companies like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and Instacart, which have fought hard to maintain their