The Canadian antitrust authority has sued Google over alleged anticompetitive practices in online advertising. Amazon has reportedly developed a new multimodal large language model, while Alibaba's Qwen AI team has produced a new "reasoning" model. Meta plans to wrap the world in a new fiber-optic subsea cable, with an initial budget of $2 billion. Other news includes Intel's $7.86 billion subsidy deal, Italian watchdog's warning to publisher GEDI against sharing data with OpenAI, and Amazon employees' rage-applying as its return-to-office mandate looms.
Key takeaways:
- Reddit is the fastest-growing large social media platform in the U.K, according to a survey by British media regulator Ofcom.
- Australia has banned all social media use by under-16s, a move that has sparked outrage among social media companies.
- Elon Musk has asked a Californian district court to stop OpenAI from carrying out certain actions, including its conversion from non-profit to for-profit.
- The Canadian antitrust authority has sued Google over alleged anticompetitive practices in online advertising, seeking divestment of its AdX ad exchange and DFP ad server, plus a fine of up to 3% of global revenues.