While Elon Musk’s X is preparing for battle against his platform’s latest European DSA fine, Meta has seemingly had something of a win in its most recent EU regulatory concern, with the EU Commission accepting Meta’s latest proposal to use less personal data for targeted advertising, as an alternative to its pay-or-consent model, in order to align with data usage regulations.

Meta has been going back and forth with EU regulators on the issue over the past few years.

This summer, after hearing about an interview I’d done on artificial intelligence, a relative sent me an email. It started, “I hope you’re doing well,” and went on, “I’m truly impressed by how you thoughtfully balanced the benefits of AI—like enhancing creativity, aiding multilingual communication, and offering supportive assistance.”

Clearly, she’d used a shortcut. The email had all the tells of artificial text: the LinkedIn-ian diction, the sycophantic cringe, the proliferant em dashes. But what disturbed me was something else. I’d never suggested in the interviewthat AI could improve creativity, communication, or much else. I had actually spent much of it criticizing Big Tech’s pro-AI rhetoric. The perspective described in my relative’s email didn’t exist.

Is Apple Pay faster than alternate payment solutions? The latest video from Apple certainly aims to convince you of the iPhone’s advantage, and does so by showing a high-stakes scenario when speed is of the essence.

‘Outrun’ is the latest Apple Pay promo video, and it features a giant dinosaur

Apple has just published a new video promoting Apple Pay on the iPhone.

The ad is called ‘Outrun’ and features an iPhone user fleeing from what appears to be a huge dinosaur.

President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Alina Habba, resigned Monday as the top federal prosecutor for New Jersey, leaving the job after an appeals court said she had been serving in the post unlawfully.

In a statement posted on social media, Habba assailed the court’s ruling as political, but said she was resigning “to protect the stability and integrity” of her office.