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Meta confirmed that it has banned ads from rival platform TikTok, saying that “declining promotional services to a competitor is a normal business practice,” Bloomberg reported. The news follows TikTok’s own ban of Instagram and Facebook profile links and Meta ads pressuring TikTok and other social media sites to follow its lead with safety features…

They said company communications around the firing may have made colleagues ‘afraid to speak.’

That will allow Starlink’s signal to penetrate walls and reach customers inside buildings.

The funding strengthens Georgia’s ability to attract companies, develop talent, and accelerate Atlanta’s growth as a leading tech hub. Oct 08, 2026

Technology companies are putting more money into the Genesis Mission, according to a White House announcement Thursday. 

The US government has suspended several tech companies’ access to a permanent residency program for international workers on H-1B visas. Microsoft and Adobe are the two biggest tech brands targeted in today’s announcement. The other five businesses that have seen their programs frozen are Cognizant, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, HCL Technologies and Capgemini. “We will…

Anthropic updated its usage policy on Thursday, codifying new prohibitions on election interference, weapons software, and surveillance. But perhaps the most attention-getting change is a new prohibition against prolonged verbal abuse of the model, which is now expressly forbidden.

The Trump administration on Thursday suspended more than a half-dozen tech companies, including Microsoft, from the program that allows permanent hiring of foreign workers — escalating its long-simmering clash with the tech industry over immigration.

At a Google Cloud event on Thursday, the company announced it’s bringing its Gemini AI into the agentic age, with the launch of a unified agent that can not only answer questions but also get things done on the user’s behalf, all from a single interface.

PlayStation 5 owners will be able to join the Forza Horizon 6 festival early next year, as the racing game will land on that console on January 26. Xbox-owned developer Playground Games initially said it would hit PS5 this year, but it’ll arrive a few weeks after that window — perhaps to give it some…