Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to childrenThe deal was reached during a California federal court trial over claims brought by 29 states, averting one of the highest-profile tests ye...
26 Aug, 2026, 07.18 PM IST
Instagram head Adam Mosseri, at children's addiction trial, says few teenagers knew of safety featureAdam Mosseri, the head of Instagram since 2018, denied any suggestion by U.S. states suing Meta that Instagram stalled by not making the "T...
26 Aug, 2026, 01.22 PM IST
Tech layoffs 2026: More than 175,000 workers laid off as Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, Meta, TikTok, Uber, LinkedIn as dozens of companies cut jobs amid AI boomTech layoffs are accelerating in 2026 as big companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, Meta, Linkedin, TikTok, Visa and dozens of...
25 Aug, 2026, 07.04 PM IST
This Mysore-born scientist, whose great-grandfather was a mathematician and grandfather a Sanskrit scholar, helped make AI faster at weather forecasting & drug discoveryAnima Anandkumar, a prominent AI researcher, applies machine learning to complex problems in physics and science. Her work at Caltech focus...
25 Aug, 2026, 03.53 PM IST
California cancels talks over $110 billion Paramount-Warner deal, citing ‘bad faith’California Attorney General Rob Bonta canceled settlement talks with Paramount Skydance over its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warne...
25 Aug, 2026, 07.20 AM IST
US Supreme Court hands a win to Trump over mail-in ballot restrictionsThe US Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump's administration to proceed for now with parts of its plan restricting mail-i...
25 Aug, 2026, 06.57 AM IST
Amazon raises prices of Echo, Kindle, Fire TV in US; check the new prices across its popular device rangeAmazon has increased prices for its Echo, Kindle, Fire TV, and eero devices. Rising memory and storage component costs are pushing up hardw...
24 Aug, 2026, 02.11 PM IST
Paramount-Warner Bros merger: California may seek cable channel divestitures, film studio safeguardsCalifornia Attorney General Rob Bonta is expected to seek concessions from Paramount, including divestitures of some cable channels and saf...
24 Aug, 2026, 08.53 AM IST
MacKenzie Scott’s $26 billion philanthropy journey, inspired by a college book, stands apart from Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates' approach to givingAfter her divorce from Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott revolutionized her philanthropic strategy by emphasizing rapid donations. But her way of...
23 Aug, 2026, 03.25 PM IST
SC relaxes 3-year mandatory law practice norm to one year for entry level judicial examThe Supreme Court on Friday cut the mandatory legal practice requirement for entry-level judicial service exams from three years to one yea...
21 Aug, 2026, 05.34 PM IST
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s UK return update: ‘The town is exhausted by entitlement and never-ending drama,’ California neighbours react to their exitPrince Harry and Meghan Markle’s planned return to the UK has sparked a blunt reaction from their Montecito, California neighbours. While s...
21 Aug, 2026, 05.15 PM IST
US corporate AI debt surge tests investor limits as fatigue emergesWhile fund managers remain comfortable with the credit quality of companies such as Amazon and Alphabet, Google's parent company, they are ...
21 Aug, 2026, 03.39 PM IST
Lawyers square off in fight over voice data used to train AIRoss Kimbarovsky of Loevy & Loevy is representing the plaintiffs - a group of journalists, podcasters and audiobook narrators - in the prop...
21 Aug, 2026, 08.56 AM IST
Meta rejects claims it sought to hook children to Facebook, Instagram as landmark trial beginsFour lead states - California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey - accused Meta of designing Facebook and Instagram to hook young users, fu...
19 Aug, 2026, 12.26 PM IST
Meta rejects allegations it sought to hook children as landmark trial beginsFour lead states - California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey - accuse Meta of designing Facebook and Instagram to hook young users, fue...
19 Aug, 2026, 01.27 AM IST
A look at major lawsuits against Meta, other social media companies over harms to kidsIn a federal trial beginning Tuesday in Oakland, California, the Instagram and Facebook parent company is fighting claims that it has contr...
18 Aug, 2026, 10.40 AM IST
Paramount seeks $1.88 billion bond from US state AGs over merger lawsuitParamount Skydance requested a bond from states challenging its Warner Bros Discovery merger. The company faces significant daily fees if t...
18 Aug, 2026, 09.41 AM IST