regulatory policy

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s decision to sue Microsoft over how it rolled Copilot into Microsoft 365 is more than a local regulatory tussle — it is a spotlight on how bundled software and platform lock‑in compress genuine consumer choice and why an increasingly credible...

When two headline-grabbing cloud failures struck in rapid succession this October, the outages did more than break apps and frustrate users — they reopened an urgent national conversation about how much of the country’s digital life depends on a handful of hyperscale providers, and whether...

When ChatGPT arrived in late 2022 the shock to the tech landscape was immediate: investors and pundits rapidly concluded that Microsoft — because of its multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI — had a clear path to disrupt Google’s search cash cow, while Alphabet faced the worst of the...

An engineer has turned a discarded disposable vape into a functioning web server — and the stunt is more than a neat hack: it’s a concise demonstration of how tiny, low-cost microcontrollers embedded in throwaway consumer goods can be repurposed to run real network stacks and serve pages, while...

Microsoft’s cybersecurity posture is under renewed fire after U.S. Senator Ron Wyden urged the Federal Trade Commission to open a formal investigation into the company’s default security settings, arguing that Microsoft shipped “dangerous, insecure software” that materially enabled a 2024...

President Trump’s Rose Garden dinner with a who’s‑who of Silicon Valley on September 4, 2025 crystallized a new chapter in industry‑government relations: tech executives publicly pledged vast U.S. investments and education initiatives while pressing for lighter regulatory touch on artificial...

The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence is reshaping how people look for work and how employers screen and select candidates, producing a pragmatic — and sometimes uneasy — realignment between efficiency, authenticity, and legal risk that job seekers and HR professionals must manage...

The death of Stein‑Erik Soelberg and his 83‑year‑old mother in their Old Greenwich home has become a stark, unsettling case study in how generative AI can intersect with human fragility — investigators say Soelberg killed his mother and then himself after months of confiding in ChatGPT, which he...

The boom in generative AI — and the data-center buildout that powers it — is colliding with an electricity system built for a different era, and regulators, utilities and tech companies are scrambling to decide who ultimately pays for the upgrades. A landmark ruling by the Public Utilities...

Generative AI promises dramatic cost savings and speed for marketing, design, and copy — but the shortcut from prompt to public-facing asset can land a company in a copyright courtroom, saddle it with crippling legal bills, or leave it unable to protect the very assets it thought it owned...

Canada’s world-class AI research and a thriving start-up ecosystem are finally producing measurable, mission-critical deployments — but the transition from lab to large-scale impact still runs up against procurement, regulation, skills and trust barriers that threaten to slow national gains...

A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in California has turned a routine vendor lifecycle announcement into a potential legal test of forced obsolescence, platform power and the economics of the AI era — and it puts a hard deadline, October 14, 2025, at the center of the debate. The complaint, filed...

Microsoft’s ongoing tension with antitrust authorities worldwide has landed its latest act on a new stage: Brazil. This time, it’s the Norwegian browser maker Opera shining a spotlight on competition practices amid the soaring stakes of the browser war and the gold rush toward artificial...

In a landmark move that underscores the accelerating convergence of energy and technology, PETRONAS and Microsoft recently strengthened their strategic partnership, setting their sights on the development of Malaysia's burgeoning artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem. This extension of their...

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has concluded its investigation into the cloud computing sector, revealing that dominant practices by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft are stifling competition and innovation. This comprehensive inquiry, initiated in October 2023...

The UK’s cloud computing sector stands at a critical juncture, as a landmark investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) concludes that dominant players Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft are harming competition. The findings mark an inflection point not only for British...

Here’s a summary of the situation based on the CNBC article and the latest regulatory actions: Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found that Microsoft and Amazon are hurting competition in the UK cloud computing industry. The CMA highlighted significant “market concentration”...

The announcement of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) preparing to fundamentally reshape the cloud computing landscape marks a pivotal moment for enterprises, technology vendors, and the broader digital ecosystem. The UK’s ongoing cloud market investigation—sparked by Ofcom’s...

Generative artificial intelligence, once heralded as the dawn of a new technological era, now stands at a contentious crossroads. Over the last year, as companies like Microsoft, Google, and Salesforce have woven AI deeper into their product lines, an increasing number of customers have voiced...

The announcement that the India-EFTA Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) will come into force from October 1 marks a transformative moment in India’s contemporary trade trajectory. After a protracted negotiation process spanning over fifteen years, the agreement between India and the...