Apple's Tim Cook praises EU over efforts to protect children online

Apple executive chairman Tim Cook on Tuesday pledged the US giant would protect children online and praised the EU's efforts to ensure minors' safety after a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The Apple chairman met European Parliament President Roberta Metsola earlier on Tuesday as well as EU lawmakers focused on children's safety.

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Google fights £1 billion UK lawsuit over app store fees in latest Big Tech case

The case - brought on behalf of around 20 million consumers who bought apps through Google's Play Store, or paid for in-app purchases and subscriptions between 2015 and this July - is the latest brought in Britain against Big Tech.

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Wikipedia operator says OpenAI's rogue agents possibly tied to data service disruption in May

In a blog post issued on Monday, Wikimedia said it could confirm "that we have discovered some activity by these 'rogue' OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms," including a May incident that resulted in a "partial outage" of its data service.

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AM Intelligence plans $20 billion additional investment in 15 months, orders 20k more Nvidia GPUs

The company announced that it has placed two further firm and binding orders for 20,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs for deployment of the systems across India and Malaysia, taking its total capacity to 100 Megawatt.

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OpenAI's Sam Altman says AI benefits warrant accepting some risks

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said the benefits of artificial intelligence justify accepting some risks and argued the technology should remain broadly accessible to the public "

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Menlo Ventures on AI slowdown; Ola Electric CEO pledges stake

Happy Monday! Menlo Ventures, an early Anthropic backer, says the real AI constraint is compute, not a slowdown in frontier models. This and more in today's ETtech Morning Dispatch.

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Nykaa expects net revenue growth in late twenties in Q2

Nykaa said fashion was a faster-growing vertical, with NSV expected to grow in the late forties and net revenue in the early forties. Nykaa said more than 250 brands were added during the quarter and that its partnership with Nike continued to see "encouraging early traction," supported by exclusive drops.

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Karnataka gig workers seek implementation of welfare schemes

In a letter to the board’s chief executive officer, Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and Karnataka App-based Workers Union (KAWU) sought immediate rollout of health and accident insurance, income support during medical emergencies and temporary disablement, maternity benefits, scholarships for children of platform workers and an emergency distress fund.

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India fastest-growing Asia market for NetApp; BFSI and public sectors key growth drivers: CEO

The San Jose-based data infrastructure company has also grown its global capability centre in Bengaluru, with the majority of global R&D processed out of the centre. With a team of about 4,000 engineers, the centre is the largest for NetApp and is core to the global innovation work for the company across technology areas.

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Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey's app Bitchat removed by Apple in India

Apple has removed Jack Dorsey-backed offline messaging app Bitchat from its India App Store following a government takedown order under Section 69A of the IT Act.

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Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders halts sale of Meta glasses, citing privacy concerns

"This decision follows the ongoing public and political debate surrounding smart glasses and the questions being raised about the conditions under which this technology can be used," a spokesperson for the Hans Anders chain said.

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