Technology

The Europe Union accused Meta on Friday of breaching its social media law by designing Facebook and Instagram to get users hooked, and demanded it disable “key addictive features” like infinite scrolling.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says a new Meta data centre will pay for itself while giving a much-needed boost to the province’s economy.

The New York Times, the Daily News and other media outlets are asking a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI, escalating a fight over copyright.

A document prepared for the federal artificial intelligence minister to use when pitching international investors on Canada’s AI ecosystem identifies a massive proposed increase in Canada’s data centre capacity.

Tech giant Meta announced it will build a massive data centre in central Alberta as it rapidly builds out computing capacity to support the global AI boom.

Big Tech has joined the party at the Calgary Stampede, a sign of growing interest in Canada from U.S.-based hyperscalers as Alberta courts data centre development.

A federal judge on Monday rejected Elon Musk’s bid to void a jury verdict finding that the world’s richest person defrauded Twitter investors by trying to drive down the social media company’s stock price after agreeing to aUS$44 billion takeover.

The Trump administration and AI giant Anthropic have not discussed the government taking stakes in the firm, a source familiar with the matter said.

Hot weather of the kind sweeping the eastern U.S. drives up electricity demand for data centres, adding to their strain on power grids and worsening air quality for surrounding areas.

Sony said Wednesday that it would stop releasing new video games for the PlayStation on disc in January 2028 following a shift in consumer preferences.

The U.S. stock market meandered to a mixed finish after several AI stocks veered back up their roller-coaster ride, Apple dropped after hiking prices.

Apple has removed VKontakte, one of Russia’s largest social networks, from its App Store, the Russian company said on Thursday, with the Kremlin calling for an explanation from the California-based tech giant.

Apple raised iPad and MacBook prices on Thursday, saying it could no longer shield customers from soaring memory and storage chip costs driven by the AI industry’s data centre buildout.

China’s Premier Li Qiang on Wednesday defended the country’s technological advancements as an opportunity for the world rather than a threat.

Promising to “unlock (Canada’s) full potential as an energy superpower,” the federal government unveiled its new Nuclear Energy Strategy on Monday.