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Amazon has completed its $4 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic, deepening their strategic partnership to compete with rivals like Microsoft and OpenAI. The deal makes AWS the primary cloud provider for Anthropic’s future AI model development.

The European Commission has accused Microsoft of illegally bundling its Teams application with its widely used Office 365 and Microsoft 365 suites, a move that could lead to significant fines and structural changes for the tech giant.

TikTok has launched Symphony, a comprehensive suite of generative AI tools designed to help marketers script, produce, and enhance video advertisements directly on the platform using features like digital avatars and AI dubbing.

The U.S. government has filed a lawsuit against Adobe, accusing the software giant of harming consumers by hiding expensive cancellation fees and making it intentionally difficult to end subscriptions for its Creative Cloud suite.

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of creating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market through restrictive and anticompetitive practices.

Cloud data platform Snowflake has acknowledged a series of data breaches targeting its customers, attributing the intrusions to compromised customer credentials rather than a vulnerability in its own systems. The attacks have impacted high-profile companies, highlighting significant security challenges in the cloud ecosystem.

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is collaborating with U.S.-based Broadcom to develop a custom 5nm AI processor, a strategic move designed to secure its AI computing resources amid global tech tensions.

Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI has successfully raised €600 million ($640 million) in a new funding round, elevating its valuation to nearly $6 billion and intensifying its competition with US tech giants.

Amazon is reportedly training a new flagship AI model, codenamed “Metis,” designed to surpass its current Titan models and challenge industry leaders like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini with advanced, agent-like capabilities.