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Exxon Mobil reaches agreement with FTC, poised to close $60 billion Pioneer deal

A view of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas.Jessica Rinaldi | ReutersThe Federal Trade Commission will wave through Exxon Mobil's roughly $60 billion...

Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry

Reddit said ahead of its IPO next week that licensing user posts to Google and others for AI projects could bring in $203 million...

The Amazon Case Signals a Tougher Stance on Gig Economy Firms

The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that Amazon had agreed to repay drivers for its Flex delivery service almost $62 million that consumers...

A Startup Will Nix Algorithms Built on Ill-Gotten Facial Data

Late last year, San Francisco face-recognition startup Everalbum won a $2 million contract with the Air Force to provide “AI-driven access control.” Monday, another...

The Smoking Gun in the Facebook Antitrust Case

Last year saw a conceptual breakthrough on that front. In a paper titled “The Antitrust Case Against Facebook,” the legal scholar Dina Srinivasan argued...

Amazon Primed: Stealth 5G Health Move, Deliveroo Greenlight, Grows Drone Team

Close up of cardboard box with a smile on it, against yellow Getty In a...

President Trump Signs Executive Order Attempting To Control Social Media

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for regulating online censorship on social media platforms, primarily Facebook and Twitter, both of...

TikTok Isn’t Keeping Its Promises To Better Protect Kids, Critic Groups Say

(Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images TikTok hasn’t...

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