The long-awaited decision follows a standoff with Meta, and succeeds a world-first law from 2021.

More than 100,000 Facebook users in the U.S. and 20,000 in Canada dealt with an outage, with thousands more seeing issues on other Meta apps.

YYou've just been added to a meeting. It's late afternoon, late in the week, and someone is presenting a deck. Geez, here we go. The presenter reads words that you can also read from a bulleted list on a lightly decorated page projected before you. Next slide.

Apple announces that new generative artificial-intelligence features are now available for compatible devices.

Apple collaborates with Broadcom on developing its first in-house AI chip, Baltra, aimed at enhancing inferencing capabilities by 2026.

The chip, known as Willow, shows Google is still a long way off its dream of commercial quantum computing.

O’Leary touts Alberta as the best place to build such energy-hungry projects

Chandra Donelson is chief data and AI officer for the U.S. Space Force: the five-year-old extraterrestrial arm of the Department of Defense.

"It's not constraining them, it’s inspiring them,” the studio head-turned-AI investor told Fortune Brainstorm AI.

Friends of the Earth calls on government to rein in growth of big tech centres for fear they could increase fossil fuel use

Microsoft unveiled its new data center design that cools chips and servers while consuming zero water.

Plus: Google resists federal supervision, and Russia buys U.S. chips, in the latest edition of Fortune's flagship tech newsletter.

Gen Z's favorite app's fate is up in the air.

Google claims Willow can solve puzzles that would take regular computers longer than the age of the universe to figure out.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks that AI development is only going to get harder — but didn't write-off "scaling" as a way of making progress.

The ban is scheduled to take effect Jan. 19 unless the Supreme Court rules otherwise.

Diamonds aren’t quite forever ... but they’re damn close.

Starlink is booming and probably coming to a plane, cruise ship, or RV near you. Internet traffic from Elon Musk's satellite web service more than tripled in 2024, per Cloudflare data. Starlink has expanded to a host of new countries and struck deals with airlines and cruise providers.

Pat Gelsinger was one of the chip pioneer’s true believers. After his rescue strategy failed, the board lost confidence in him. How does this iconic American company survive?

MacBook fans should get ready for a shock. Apple is planning to finally add something Windows laptop users have loved for over a decade.