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Social platform formerly known as Twitter, pursuing an 'everything app' strategy including payments.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
Ireland's DPC takes a median 6.2 years to decide a cross-border GDPR case, a LessWrong analysis finds. The AI Act gives the Commission five years from a violation to fine, and it requires the same investigation and response steps that take up most of the Irish cases.
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US Justice Department lawyers have asked to join X's court challenge to its 120 million euro EU fine, the first penalty under the Digital Services Act. Before any argument on the merits, a Luxembourg court has to decide whether Washington may join the case at all.
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The cease-and-desist gave roughly 21 hours and named the repository, not just the running instances. Account-free reading of X is now a paid API key or a DSA application.
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The designation attaches to a capability. Any assistant that answers prompts from the open web can be read as a search engine, and the four-month clock starts at notification, a date fixed by that filing.
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America's Justice Department has applied to back X's bid to annul a 120 million euro fine the European Commission imposed under the Digital Services Act. The first DSA penalty, over X's blue checkmarks, now has a government arguing each side before the EU General Court.
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X filed in London's Business and Property Courts on Sept. 17 to recover creator payouts from six Bitcoin handles it suspended a month earlier, and it is claiming at least £75,000 more for the investigation.
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Washington has applied to join X's and Elon Musk's EU court challenges to their 120 million euro Digital Services Act fine. Its case turns on whose turnover the Commission may count, a question the Justice Department says reaches large platforms with US parents.
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Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, Nadella and Musk have all said it is time to slow down. The concrete output so far is a 37-page Microsoft code of conduct and an OpenAI framework listing six incidents OpenAI chose to report.
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Five executives who profit from AI spent the past few days asking for a slowdown. The Verge's timeline puts the same request in Musk's mouth in 2014 and Microsoft's in 2019, with few binding results either time.
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The project says it will continue on legal advice it has not described. The code repository and the best-known public instance are verifiably back, and nothing has changed about the unofficial API that forces a rebuild every few months.
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Chief Judge Colm Connolly treated the words "formerly known as Twitter" in X's app listing as live use of the brand, while Musk's 2023 posts about blow torches and all the birds cost the company the tweet mark and the bird logo.
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The UN telecoms agency and the World Benchmarking Alliance scored 200 tech companies on 2024 data, and the AI and cloud providers are the group whose own emissions went up while a comparable telecom cohort's came down.
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Attorney General Todd Blanche says criminals worked X's password-recovery system against hundreds of thousands of accounts this week and that X stopped them. The technique is the part still undisclosed.
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David Weigel's read is that data centers now stand in for electric bills, which turns the officials who sign off on siting and interconnection into a variable rather than a constant for anyone planning capacity.
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X Payments holds money transmitter licenses in 41 states and Washington DC, and New York is not among them, which is why the rate that sold the product vanishes a month after the nationwide rollout.
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Nitter and Xcancel both stopped after X Corp wrote to them on the same August Monday, and every workflow that read a public post without an account now needs one, or a paid API key. Neither maintainer will discuss the letters yet.
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Reports say X is weighing USDC for creator rewards. Nothing is committed, but Meta already pays some creators in USDC, which tells you what stablecoins are now actually for.
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