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Microsoft, OpenAI, and a US Teachers’ Union Are Hatching a Plan to ‘Bring AI into the Classroom’

Wired

Just last week, several professors in the Netherlands published an open letter calling for local universities to reconsider financial relationships with AI companies and ban AI use in the classroom. Google, Apple, and Microsoft have competed for years to get their tools into schools in hopes of turning children into lifelong users.

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This new front-of-package nutrition label is designed to make us healthier

Fast Company Tech

On January 14 of this year—just six days before Donald Trump took office—the Food and Drug Administration proposed requiring a front-of-package (FOP) nutrition label for most packaged foods. If the FDA chooses to go ahead with the proposal, it will publish a final rule in the Federal Register. Simple designs like traffic lights (U.K.),

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Trump just handed China a major advantage on AI

Recode by Vox

Advanced chips are overwhelmingly designed by one company (Nvidia), and manufactured by one company (Taiwan’s TSMC), using machines built by one company (the Netherlands’ ASML). Their proposals may yet read like notes from an alternative universe where DC decided to take strategic control of compute seriously.

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Dutch regulators reject Apple's proposed policy changes allowing off-platform payments for dating apps

TechSpot

The Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) in the Netherlands told Apple that its efforts to meet its March mandate to allow dating app developers to use external payment platforms weren't good enough. It said that the company's proposal was an "improvement" but was not sufficient to comply with European.

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Apple proposes 27 percent commission in Dutch app store dispute

The Verge

Apple plans to charge developers of dating apps a 27 percent commission on any in-app purchases made via alternative payment systems in the Netherlands, the company has announced. The announcement follows Google’s proposal to reduce its commission by 4 percent for developers using alternative payment systems in South Korea, Reuters reports.

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Europe to ‘assess’ Adobe’s proposed $20B Figma acquisition on competition grounds

TechCrunch

Adobe’s proposed plan to snap up digital design rival Figma for $20 billion has attracted the attentions of the European Commission (EC), which announced today that the proposed merger potentially “threatens to significantly affect competition in the market for interactive product design and whiteboarding software.”

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TSMC announces new $11 billion factory in Germany to manufacture automotive and IoT chips

TechSpot

The proposed factory, a joint venture with three other companies, marks TSMC's first foray into Europe. of the Netherlands. In a press release, TSMC said that its allies in its new venture will be Robert Bosch GmbH and Infineon Technologies AG from Germany, as well as NXP Semiconductors N.V. Read Entire Article