This is the EU’s largest antitrust penalty ever — and Trump has already threatened to “nullify” it.
EU fines Google $3.5B over adtech ‘abuse’

This is the EU’s largest antitrust penalty ever — and Trump has already threatened to “nullify” it.
This is a bad idea.
When you design for people instead of institutions, you don’t just build a product. You build a movement. That’s the idea behind this Builders Stage session called “Creating Communities and Companies That Last.”
The team behind Alex, which built a popular tool that let devs use AI models within Apple’s development suite Xcode, is joining OpenAI.
X’s new encrypted messaging feature, XChat, has some red flags.
Isotopes, co-founded by Arun Murthy, launched a sophisticated analytics agent. Arun was one of the creators of Hadoop who later joined Scale AI.
Warner Bros. says that Midjourney knowingly engaged in wrongful conduct, noting that the company previously restricted subscribers from generating content based on infringing images but recently lifted those protections.
The sodium-ion battery startup went from announcing a $1.4 billion factory to filing for liquidation in just over a year. Natron’s troubled journey illustrates the challenges in making batteries in the U.S.
Tesla spent a fraction on X in early 2025 compared to 2024. It also paid $300,000 to Kimbal Musk’s drone company.
Leaders from Pulley, 645 Ventures, and Epigram Legal join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 in San Francisco. Register to join.